CEO to staff: You're not getting a raise. We're spending on AI instead

https://www.businessinsider.com/teradata-pauses-raises-employee-compensation-ai-budget-2026-6

by ValentineC • 2 months ago

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olsondv• 2 months ago

“You” being the operative word. The writing is on the wall when an AI-centric cloud company with falling profits can’t compensate its workers in an age where other companies are scrambling to jam AI into everything. It reads as a last ditch effort to resuscitate the business.

SoftTalker• 2 months ago

Next: Ummm, I’m gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk… oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up.

caymanjim• 2 months ago

It's not like their staff can quit in this job market.

rushingcreek• 2 months ago

This seems like AI washing to me. If the company was already doing well, the AI investments should allow it to grow faster and therefore still be able to give employees bonuses. This announcement implies they view this as a zero-sum investment. Well-run businesses tend not to think this way.

serial_dev• 2 months ago

I’m honestly wondering where this “win in the market with AI” goes for companies. It’s not unique to this place, it’s in every layoff tweet. What’s the strategy? Just “AI harder” than others?

I’m working at an AI pilled company and I just don’t see the gigantic improvements. Not in my work, not in anyone else’s. It’s a great technology, we finish some tasks faster, some tasks really 100x faster, sure, but it’s a <2x improvement at an organization scale. It’s not like suddenly we cleaned out the defect list. It’s not like I can use any app without seeing 5 bugs in the first five minutes. It’s not like I got any meaningful new features.

spwa4• 2 months ago

Ever since 2022, interest rates (and thus the reasons for investment) have been what passes for high these days. Hence companies running out of runway because they can't keep loaning more.

AI is an excuse.

OutOfHere3• 2 months ago

It won't be long before workers will be paid only to automate their job away. The profits of course will not go to the workers; they will be shown the door once their value has been extracted into the automaton.

bfkwlfkjf• 2 months ago

In this thread, people learn about capitalism.

general14652• 2 months ago

If you will automate all the jobs, who is buying your goods or services?

OutOfHere3• 2 months ago

Consumers won't, but interfacing businesses will. As an example, imagine an accounting business -- they still need to interface with some payroll and taxation systems.

helsinkiandrew• 2 months ago

Not hiring replacements for the few percent of staff which churn every year would probably save the same amount of money without demoralising your staff.

This looks like a simple cost cutting to boost earnings - their sales have been steadily decreasing over the past few years whilst EPS have been increasing, which isn’t a healthy look

sublinear• 2 months ago

The decision applies to employees in countries where regulators do not require market-aligned salary adjustments.

sharts2• 2 months ago

Will the CEO also not get any raise?

zzgo• 2 months ago

Why should the executives have to suffer?

sharts2• 2 months ago

You're right, my bad. They took all the risk.

Haven880• 2 months ago

The secret is while they flipping over, they believe whatever that is stays. That way they can claim the improvement as their ingenuity. The correct response is take their knowhow which is their moat but not protected by law and walk over to their competitors. Tank their moat as fast as possible. They want to play we should help them play more challengingly.

orangecoffee• 2 months ago

The industry should give more security in exchange for reduced pay. We need a social movement for this.

CEO to staff: You're not getting a raise. We're spending on AI instead

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