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954 Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers To Use AI. They're Enforcing It.

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/25/2026 17:30 EDT

Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers To Use AI. They're Enforcing It.

Tech companies ranging from 300-person startups to giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Salesforce have moved beyond encouraging employees to use AI tools and are now actively tracking adoption and, in several cases, tying it to performance reviews. Google is factoring AI use into some software engineer reviews for the first time this year, and Meta's new performance review system will do the same -- it can track how many lines of code an engineer wrote with AI assistance.

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