Today, people are being trimmed in many areas during the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Its scope is going to increase even more in the coming time. The CEO of Ignitetech probably needed it already. Taking a big decision in 2023, he fired about 80 percent of his company employees who refused to adopt AI. His move definitely led to a dispute, but it reflects the bitter truth of this era of change. CEO Eric von is still adamant on his decision of 2023. In an interview to the Fortune, he said, “It is very difficult to take a decision of saving employees on a large scale, but he will do it again if needed.”
‘AI Mande’ was opposed in the company
According to a Times of India report, Vauan described AI as a danger to business in 2023. He then started ‘AI Mande’. That is, one day of the week, when the entire staff had to focus on projects related to AI. Hundreds of employees protested this decree of the CEO. He also decided to expel him from his job instead of convincing his employees. That is, do work related to AI or leave the job on Monday. According to Vaughan, technical staff did the biggest opposition to the adoption of AI. Instead of adopting AI, these employees expressed concern about its limitations, while the people of the marketing and sales team adopted a new training program without any hesitation.
CEOs spend 20 percent of their salary on AI training programs. These included things like reimbursement of spending on AI tools and ‘early engineering classes’. However, instead of participating in it, the employees damaged the company. Due to this protest, a large part of the company’s employees turned into 12 months.
Vaughan led this decision
By 2024, the company saw the benefits of this difficult change. Ignitetech launched two AI-solution, which is pending patent. In addition, the company also acquired another company and earned about 75 percent of Ebitda from it. This shows that vowan’s tough steps are proving to be effective.
A research by the AI platform writer has also shown that many other companies are also experiencing the same as von, where one-third of employees are harming the company’s AI schemes. 41 percent of Millennials and Generation Z’s employees are hesitant to adopt AI. However, von hesitates to advise other corporate leaders to do so. He says that he had no such plans before, but he had to take this decision in view of the protest of the employees.
