Automation: Carl’s Jr turns to automated systems
Source: ‘They asked for 20$ an hour and Carl’s Jr said bet’: Carl’s Jr. customer orders meal via A.I. assistant in drive-thru
Automation: Lots of automation showing up in restaurants
The $15 minimum wage, now $20 per hour demands, has led to the inevitable acceleration of restaurant automation. Also, the bizarre “tipping culture” we now have in the U.S. might…
Musk was right: Many tech companies slashing bloated middle management layers
Elon Musk took much heat for gutting Twitter last fall. But as some suggested, if that worked for him, you could expect every tech CEO was looking at what he…
Demographics: Unemployment hits 53 year low
Source: Jobs report January 2023: Payrolls increased by 517,000, unemployment rate at 53-year low Reminder – the new entrant cohort to the population pyramid is shrinking, while the top end…
International: The History of Starbucks
Starbucks began by purchasing roasted beans from Peets Coffee and Teas. Peets was founded by Dutch immigrant Alfred Peets. Years later, in 1983, Howard Schulz was in Milan on business…
Software: “40% of software engineers born outside the United States”
“Some 40% of software engineers in the country are born outside the US,…” Chicago Seeks Laid Off Tech Workers With H-1B Visas for Jobs – Bloomberg Bloomberg appears to have…
Business, Tech: Microsoft said to layoff workers in “key VR” teams
Source: Microsoft Layoffs Reportedly Hit Key VR and Metaverse Teams – Metaverse Bitcoin News
Business: “Microsoft announces new investment in ChatGPT” – this is the 21st century Gold Rush
OpenAI works closely with Microsoft’s cloud service Azure. In July 2019, Microsoft backed OpenAI with $1 billion, and the investment made Microsoft the “exclusive” provider of cloud computing services to…
Tech: Media confusion on H-1B visas among widespread tech job layoffs
Between Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), about 100,000 workers were just laid off. I’m so old, l remember last week (Jan 12) when they needed to hire more temporary imported…
Tech: Microsoft splurges at Davos day before laying off 10,000 workers
Stung! Sting reportedly played elite Microsoft event as layoffs loomed | The Seattle Times But Microsoft might have strayed off key this week. On the eve of Wednesday’s announcement of…