It really depends on the layoff strategy and there are lots of those. But for the most part you should treat it as random. For instance I was in the room when

It really depends on the layoff strategy and there are lots of those. But for the most part you should treat it as random. For instance I was in the room when a company decided to shut down a whole location, even though it was very high performing. The reason? It had the lease ending soonest so they could cut even more costs there.