That's a good question - if you mean across the industry as a whole then I would say maybe because I don't have insight into every company. I also mentioned tha

That's a good question - if you mean across the industry as a whole then I would say maybe because I don't have insight into every company. I also mentioned that I think it is harder to determine the low performers in larger companies that have 1000x more workers. I do know that some companies have focused on laying off certain departments or teams, though the criteria is a mystery to me (not profitable on paper?). I would also like to amend my current qualifiers to include underutilized employees, too; eg a company over-hires and ends up not having enough work for everyone, which seems to be another common narrative for these layoffs. These people can appear as low performers even though it is the fault of the company for hiring them.