alt Hacker NewsIn consulting firing people “on the bench” happens regularly if the sales pipeline cannot keep everyone busy, there is only so much agencies pay from their own pocket if there are no outsourcing deals landing.
In some of those well known offshoring companies, being on bench automatically means a downcut on the salary as cost measure.
> if the sales pipeline cannot keep everyone busy
That has nothing to do with AI.
It is happening due to global economic conditions.
Im not saying the bench doesn't exist, Im saying its not full of people because you have two consultants doing all 59 jobs with AI.
There are definitely places making cuts of staff who are not on the bench.