What is Silent Firing, a new trend in the workplace that is becoming increasingly popular

Silent heating is the new trend in the workplace. (Representative photo)

The corporate world has witnessed numerous trends in the workplace, including major resignation, silent quitting, moonlighting and angry outbursts. However, it is expected that all this will be replaced by ‘silent shooting’, a craze that has already begun to sweep the employment sector. As workers worry that they could lose their jobs in the future due to artificial intelligence (AI), some experts have claimed that this is already happening. Employers are “silently firing,” or making tasks so difficult that employees quit and are then replaced by AI New York Post reported.

This is why Amazon is forcing employees to come into the office five days a week, despite most of the workforce expressing dissatisfaction with its return-to-office policy, claims George Kailas, the CEO of Prospero.Ai and Fast employee Company. As a result, 73% of employees were considering quitting, a survey found After.

According to Mr. Kailas, despite some data showing that remote work increases productivity, companies like Amazon are “silently firing employees” by enforcing such policies, “because the best way to reduce workforce while saving on severance would be to abolish remote working,” he says. wrote.

“What makes this even more alarming is that we haven’t even scratched the surface of the AI ​​adoption curve yet,” Mr. Kailas added.

Meanwhile, according to economist and MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, only 5% of jobs could be replaced or supported by AI within the next decade. “A lot of money is going to be lost,” he said earlier Bloomberg. ‘You won’t get an economic revolution from those 5%.’

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Mr. Acemoglu argued that AI is not yet reliable to complete the tasks that humans perform, predicting that the technology will soon not be advanced enough. “You need very reliable information or the ability of these models to faithfully perform certain steps that employees used to do,” Mr. Acemoglu continued.

“They can do that in a few places with some human oversight … but in most places they can’t,” he said.

Concerns about AI taking over jobs come mainly as GenZ is driving a new workplace trend called the “Great Detachment.” This refers to a decline in employee engagement due to employee dissatisfaction.

Gallup survey data shows that engagement among Gen Z and young millennials has declined by 5%. Richard Wahlquist, CEO of the American Staffing Association, told Business Insider that an estimated three in 10 employees overall are not actively engaged at work.