Indeed And Glassdoor Are Cutting More Than 1,000 Jobs

Job-hunting platforms Indeed and Glassdoor are cutting their workforce, and it whitethorn beryllium acknowledgment to bully aged artificial intelligence. About 1,300 jobs from nan companies will beryllium eliminated, mostly successful 2 departments: investigation and development, and group and sustainability. There will besides beryllium immoderate executive shuffles, including nan exit of Glassdoor CEO Christian Sutherland-Wong.

Both services are owned by Japan-based Recruit Holdings Co. and its President and CEO Hisayuki "Deko" Idekoba announced nan layoffs successful a memo. It doesn't look that immoderate circumstantial reasons were fixed for nan consolidation. However, Idekoba did enthuse astir nan value of AI successful nan missive, which apt didn't make immoderate of nan impacted labor consciousness immoderate better. "AI is changing nan world, and we must accommodate by ensuring our merchandise delivers genuinely awesome experiences," he wrote. "Delivering connected this ambition requires america to move faster, effort caller things, and hole what's broken."

Idekoba is already connected nan books arsenic a proponent of AI usage successful occupation searching and hiring. "Hiring is still excessively slow and excessively hard, and we’re utilizing AI to make it simpler and much individual — for some occupation seekers and employers," he said erstwhile taking complete arsenic CEO of Indeed past month. Ironically, he assumed activity of Indeed erstwhile erstwhile CEO Chris Hyams near successful bid to thief tackle nan "urgent issues" successful processing responsible AI tools.