> Hiring theoretically permanent employees in response is simply bad judgement. This is not self-evident. Hiring the salaried employees over 2+ years could ve

> Hiring theoretically permanent employees in response is simply bad judgement. This is not self-evident. Hiring the salaried employees over 2+ years could very well be cheaper than contractors. If they had under-hired during to boom, then we would not have layoff today but the company would not have grown as much. The incentives are set to hire people when you need them and fire them when you don't anymore. Layoffs are not expensive or damaging to the company; they don't have any reason to avoid them. Zoom's stock went up in response to the firing.