{"id":35088,"date":"2025-07-10T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=35088"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:41:49","slug":"hr-employees-on-the-block-chopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/hr-employees-on-the-block-chopped\/","title":{"rendered":"HR Employees On The Block, Chopped"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"image0.jpeg\"\"image1.jpeg\"\"image2.png\"\"image3.png\"IBM laid off 8,000 HR employees!!<\/div>\n
Not for budget. <\/div>\n
Not for performance.<\/div>\n
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They got replaced…by a chatbot.<\/div>\n
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That bot? It\u2019s called AskHR, and it runs on IBM\u2019s own AI engine: Watsonx Orchestrate.<\/div>\n
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 – 94% of HR work, automated<\/div>\n
– Pay, vacation, paperwork, even terminations<\/div>\n
– $3.5B in \u201cproductivity gains\u201d<\/div>\n
 – 40% drop in HR costs<\/div>\n
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IBM built the system that made these types of layoffs possible. Now they\u2019re selling it to everyone else- packaged, no\u2011code, enterprise\u2011ready.<\/div>\n
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IBM calls it innovation.<\/div>\n
Let\u2019s call it what it is though ya’ll… One of the first  at-scale white-collar replacement experiment.<\/div>\n
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And it worked.<\/div>\n

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IBM laid off 8,000 HR employees!!
Not for budget.
Not for performance.<\/p>\n

They got replaced…by a chatbot.<\/p>\n

That bot? It\u2019s called AskHR, and it runs on IBM\u2019s own AI engine: Watsonx Orchestrate.<\/p>\n

– 94% of HR work, automated
– Pay, vacation, paperwork, even terminations
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IBM laid off 8,000 HR employees!! Not for budget.  Not for performance. They got replaced…by a chatbot. That bot? It\u2019s called AskHR, and it runs on IBM\u2019s own AI engine: Watsonx Orchestrate.  – 94% of HR work, automated – Pay, vacation, paperwork, even terminations – $3.5B in \u201cproductivity gains\u201d  – 40% drop in HR costs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}