There also might be other forces pushing for those on the background. There are several articles claiming that activist investors pushed for the layoffs: https:

There also might be other forces pushing for those on the background. There are several articles claiming that activist investors pushed for the layoffs: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-fund-billionaire-google-owner-alphabet-needs-to-cut-more-than-12-000-overpaid-jobs-11674484497 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-fund-billionaire-goo... Dynamics like this wouldn't be unheared of. I hear that part of the reason airlines don't frequently computer on price is that investors don't like it because they typically invest in multiple airlines and don't want their investments to compete for slices of a pie by shrinking the pie. Is it even collusion if I just do what my investors are asking me to?