Block employees describe a deteriorating culture, as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and Jack Dorsey pushes generative AI tools to maximize productivity
Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.
After hundreds of workers were laid off in early February from Jack Dorsey's Block, some of the people remaining at the company say the internal culture has devolved to a point where performance anxiety is running rampant, using generative AI is required, and overall morale is
I think someone is projecting. — > Dorsey reiterated that the layoffs were made for performance reasons, saying that there was “a sizable portion of our population that have been phoning it in.” — www.wired.com/story/inside...
This is certainly a product of Dorsey mismanaging the company for years. — Many missed opportunities. — But this is going to be the route of so many companies in tech as the “real” AI revolution rolls out, i.e., mandated use, layoffs, failed projects, more layoffs, rinse and …
NEW: “Top-down mandates to use large language models are crazy,” says one current Block employee. “If the tool were good, we'd all just use it.” — My latest for @wired.com — www.wired.com/story/inside...