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Does anyone track the frequency and size of layoffs from tech companies? It certainly feels that there has been a notable uptick in layoff news over the past 6-

• dajohnson89 10y ago
  Perhaps HN needs a monthly "Who's firing?" thread.
  • trome 10y ago
    I want to say there was one of those I read a while back, covered which startups were shutting down, which were shrinking/changing direction, some larger businesses mixed in, etc.
  • who_is_firing 10y ago
    I have tried to start one from another alias (whoisfiring) but hacker news shadow banned me after my 2nd submission so I created this one. Unfortunately the latest thread didn't have many comments.
• steinerj 10y ago
  Yep. thelayoff.com does... not exclusively tech, but very good source. The Oracle layoffs where rumored and discessed there months ago.
• frik 10y ago
  In the 2001 dot com bubble, there was Fucked Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company Search for tech bubble, unicorn corpse/unicorpse. Unicorn list to watch: http://fortune.com/unicorns/ http://fortune.com/unicorns/ Best sites to watch: https://www.cbinsights.com/research-downround-tracker https://www.cbinsights.com/research-downround-tracker and https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/ https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/ and https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/