2026年2月4日 / 美国东部时间上午11:16 / CBS新闻
Pinterest表示，在该社交媒体公司近期一轮裁员后，已解雇两名工程师，他们开发了一款用于追踪哪些员工被裁的内部工具。
此次解雇发生在这家生活方式应用公司宣布裁员15%一周后，该公司正在加大对人工智能的投入。裁员前Pinterest约有4,700名员工，公司称重组工作应在9月30日前完成。
据公司内部消息人士透露，Pinterest首席安全官在一次会议中告知工程部门员工，由于涉及员工隐私权和公司隐私政策，不会公开被裁员工名单。此后，两名工程师开发了一款内部工具，创建了一份受裁员影响的员工总名单。
隐私违规
Pinterest发言人告诉CBS新闻，编写这些脚本的工程师已被解雇。
发言人表示：”在明确被告知Pinterest不会广泛分享受影响员工身份信息后，两名工程师编写了定制脚本，不当获取机密公司信息，识别所有被解雇员工的职位和姓名，并在更大范围内传播。”
她补充道：”这明显违反了Pinterest的政策，也侵犯了其前同事的隐私。”
“阻碍性”行为？
据CNBC报道，上周全公司会议上，Ready告诉员工：”健康的辩论和异议是正常的，这是我们做出决策的方式。但建设性辩论与阻碍性行为之间有明确界限。”
CNBC还报道，Ready称Pinterest正面临”关键时刻”，并告诉员工如果”违背公司发展方向工作”，应考虑另寻出路。
Pinterest是众多以人工智能为由缩减员工规模的大企业之一。根据再就业服务公司Challenger, Gray and Christmas的数据，2025年企业直接以AI应用为由宣布裁员55,000人——是两年前因AI导致裁员数量的12倍多。
编辑：Alain Sherter
Pinterest fired 2 engineers who built an internal layoff tracker
February 4, 2026 / 11:16 AM EST / CBS News
Pinterest said it fired two engineers who built an internal tool to track which employees had been laid off following a recent round of job cuts at the social media company.
The firings come about a week after the lifestyle app said it was cutting 15% of its staff as it invests in artificial intelligence. Pinterest, which had about 4,700 employees prior to the layoffs, said the restructuring should be complete by Sept. 30.
Pinterest’s chief security officer had told engineering employees in a meeting that it wouldn’t disclose a list of laid-off employees due to those individuals’ privacy rights and the company’s privacy policies, according to a source with the company. After that meeting, two engineers built an internal tool to create a master list of employees who were impacted by the job cuts, the person said.
Privacy violation
The engineers who wrote the scripts were fired, a Pinterest spokesperson told CBS News.
“After being clearly informed that Pinterest would not broadly share information identifying impacted employees, two engineers wrote custom scripts improperly accessing confidential company information to identify the locations and names of all dismissed employees and then shared it more broadly,” the spokesperson said.
She added, “This was a clear violation of Pinterest policy and of their former colleagues’ privacy.”
“Obstructionist” behavior?
At a companywide meeting last week, according to CNBC, Ready told workers, “Healthy debate and dissent are expected, that’s how we make our decisions. But there’s a clear line between constructive debate and behavior that’s obstructionist.”
Ready also described Pinterest as facing a “critical moment,” and told employees they should consider working elsewhere if they are “working against the direction of the company,” CNBC reported.
Pinterest is the latest in a number of large businesses to cite AI in reducing headcount. Companies in 2025 directly pointed to their use of AI in announcing 55,000 job cuts — more than 12 times the number of layoffs attributed to AI just two years earlier, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.
Edited by Alain Sherter
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