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Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

(arstechnica.com)
308 points ndsipa_pomu | 1 comments | 21 Aug 25 15:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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guywithahat[dead post] ◴[21 Aug 25 17:21 UTC] No.44975467[source]▶
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surgical_fire ◴[21 Aug 25 17:23 UTC] No.44975489[source]▶
Weird take, considering that according to the text of the article the "innovation" didn't bring any productivity gains.
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guywithahat ◴[21 Aug 25 17:26 UTC] No.44975542[source]▶
The chatbots did bring productivity gains, the union argued that it wasn't significant enough for them to lay off people. I'm not as familiar with Australian union laws, but companies shouldn't be afraid to innovate like this. Wages don't go up through government force, they go up through innovation and increased efficiency
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1. z0r ◴[21 Aug 25 17:59 UTC] No.44975974[source]▶
"Wages don't go up through government force, they go up through innovation and increased efficiency" - that might seems obvious to you but it seems to be both ahistorical and a misrepresentation of what has happened here. Unions aren't government force.