The corporate sector has witnessed numerous workplace trends including great resignation, quiet quitting, moonlighting and rage-applying
Image: Unsplash
However, all of it is expected to be replaced by "silent firing", a fad that has already begun to rule the employment industry
Image: Unsplash
As workers worry that they could lose their jobs to artificial intelligence (AI) in the future, some experts have claimed that it is already happening
Image: Unsplash
Employers are "silent firing" or making roles so hard that workers quit and, subsequently are replaced by AI, the New York Post reported
Image: Unsplash
This is why Amazon is forcing employees to come into the office five days a week despite most of the workforce expressing dissatisfaction with the policy, one expert claimed
Image: Unsplash
Despite some data that proves remote work boosts productivity, companies like Amazon are "silent firing” workers by enforcing return-to-office policies
Image: Unsplash
This is because the best way to decrease retention while saving on severance would be to remove remote work, experts explained
Image: Unsplash
"What makes this even more alarming is that we have not even scratched the surface of the AI adoption curve," George Kailas, the CEO of Prospero.Ai, said
Image: Unsplash
Notably, worries about AI taking over jobs come as GenZ fuels another workplace trend dubbed the "Great Detachment"
Image: Unsplash
This trend refers to a decline in employee engagement due to dissatisfaction among workers