Interview Digital business transformation expert and erstwhile COBOL programmer Kamales Lardi has spent a lot of time in the tech industry, including consulting with large corporates and SMEs who are going through a process of making cuts. But mass layoffs are hitting mid-career tech pros and harming the businesses who make them, she told The Register in an interview last week, implying the current trend of mass layoffs is a logical misstep. "I would have expected more from the tech industry that is supposed to be one of the most innovative, comparatively. I feel these tech companies are taking steps backwards, particularly with the dismantling of the departments and structures they had put in place for future growth." [Mass redundancies are] an outdated and traditional practice that most companies turn to as a first resort to create liquidity Lardi says that most of the people impacted by layoffs have "approximately 10-11 years of experience" and so are "not really junior staff that are easily replaced," noting there would be "a loss of skills and knowledge in these companies." She is also concerned over loss at the technical and software engineering layer – where diversity is already a major issue […]
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