> I really get the feeling that many companies are just blindly doing whatever other companies do. They’d all have had to collude in December for this to happe

> I really get the feeling that many companies are just blindly doing whatever other companies do. They’d all have had to collude in December for this to happen. Laying off people in large companies takes a sufficient amount of planning, and isn’t accomplished in days. They need to hire external consultants to help, even.