“In the last 2.5 years, when we already have ChatGPT (Artificial Intelligence Chat Program – ELTA) and similar models, we would see that there was a very serious question whether AI models will replace jobs or whether we will have some kind of competition. And what we see in the market – at least in some areas it is already happening. The IT and programming (…) ecosystem is one of the first to feel a very strong impact,” L. Petkevičius told “Žinių radio” on Monday.
According to the expert, the trends of recent years show significant changes in the productivity of IT sector employees – the growing availability of AI tools and technological progress increase the productivity of already working specialists, thus reducing the need to hire new employees.
“If three years ago we had a very hot situation all over the world that all IT companies needed help, additional workers, anyone could retrain, go to work as a tester, that need for workers grew in particularly large quantities,” L. Petkevičius testified.
“Direct automation of digital applications, programming and various jobs reaches a whole new level. (…) If we compare productivity a few years ago and now, if a typical programmer or IT person has not increased his productivity, companies already have questions about whether the person did not learn, did not start using those tools, or is he working a second or third job and keeping up with everything” , – emphasized the head of the DI association.
ELTA reminds that the largest shareholder of the telecommunications company Telia Lietuva, Sweden’s Telia Company AB, is starting a program of changes and plans to reduce the number of employees in Lithuania by about 400 positions.
It is planned that the number of employees of Telia Lietuva will decrease by 200, the remaining positions will be eliminated in the company’s subsidiary Telia Global Services Lithuania.
In the entire group of companies in 2024 it is planned to eliminate about 3,000 positions, thus reducing the number of personnel of the group of companies.
These layoffs are part of changes aimed at simplifying the company’s operations in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
“We are digitizing the business, decommissioning legacy systems, leveraging the breakthrough of artificial intelligence (AI) and attracting the best talent – this is our path to a leading organization.” Unfortunately, growing investments and talent retention lead to the need to optimize the number of jobs,” said Giedrė Kaminskaitė-Salters, head of Telia Lietuva.
2024-09-09 09:14:41