Technology98% of hiring managers will use AI to decide who to fire this year, according to a survey

98% of hiring managers will use AI to decide who to fire this year, according to a survey

The layoffs are the order of the day and the artificial intelligence which can select staff as candidates to leave the company as well.

While the wave of layoffs looms over all sectors and reaches Spain, 98% of hiring managers admit that algorithms and AI will help them make decisions about layoffs this year.

In a survey of 300 people in the HR departments of American companies and carried out by Capterra, a website that reviews the software of these tools, almost all the interviewees affirm that artificial intelligence will make it easier for them to work in the future, especially for mass layoffs.

AI was already used to detect the best profiles. Since 2008, recruiters have turned to machine learning programs to analyze the millions of pieces of data from potential candidates, select them for interviews and to choose who to hire or promote.

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Now, the data can also be analyzed by artificial intelligence to sindicate who are the ones who should leave the company.

From hiring to firing

Given the restructuring of companies’ spending to face the economic crisis, workers are the first affected.

The bigtech have been the first to take the step of reducing their workforce and carrying out mass layoffs: Amazon laid off 18,000 workers, Google laid off 12,000 people, Meta cut 11,000 positions and Microsoft cut 10,000 employees. But companies like Glovo or Ford have also joined them.

Many of the workers affected by the layoffs they see meaningless the decisions made by their management teams. For them, some of the layoffs were completely wrong and prejudicial for the operation of the company.

Taking into account that AI has been used to hireit is plausible to think that algorithms may also be behind the layoffs, although this has not been confirmed by any company.

Resorting to data analysis by machine learning tools can mean a relief for those who have to make the delicate decision of who to fire. According to the survey, 70% of the hiring managers who participated in the survey stated that they the most important factor in firing was performance.

The dangers of relying on AI alone to make the decision

Work automation makes it possible to collect thousands of data from employees and these can be used to measure their performance. While it may seem like an objective barometer for making decisions of this magnitude, Experts point out that relying solely on AI for layoffs can pose problems.

The use of AI demands transparency about how the data is collected and what orientation the algorithm has in deciding which people are laid off. Not knowing what parameters the artificial intelligence is taking into account or how the data has been treated can lead to bad decisions.

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In addition, there are also risks of discrimination that worry experts. Leaving the ultimate decision of who stays or who leaves in the hands of AI when a company decides what it has to do as personnel managers, can be a “leakage risk” of the company’s talent.

Just as when hiring, it is necessary to pay attention not only to technical skills, but also to attitudes and soft skills, when laying off, these same factors must be taken into account. The problem of the AI ​​is that it is not capable of measuring these capacities by itself.

Although the use of AI tools can be an effective relief for the HR department, it is in the hands of personnel managers evaluate recommendations and take into account other more human factors that are not quantifiable by artificial intelligence.

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