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Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

I mean, without knowing the details what your scrum master does, that feels more like a 'product owner' role to me.

But to be fair, I'm also not sure, what the 'scrum master' role is actually supposed to do. Some say, scrum masters really need to be deeply involved in the whole project to be able to question/assist the way of working.
And then there's the reality at my company, which is that scrum masters often have 10+ projects, where they just hop between meetings to host them, while hardly being able to contribute anything...