Okay, but...what are they supposed to do? Stores higher more employees for the holiday shopping season and then when the season is over, you reduce headcount b

Okay, but...what are they supposed to do? Stores higher more employees for the holiday shopping season and then when the season is over, you reduce headcount back to normal. Shouldn't tech companies have expanded to take advantage of the pandemic, and then downsize once that increase in demand goes away? Maybe they overhired, but it's also quite possible that many of these positions were valuable for only a couple years, after which they should be eliminated. I don't want my employer to keep me on if I'm a waste of money to them. We should provide adequate severance, and the unemployment system should be more robust, but "hire people when you need them and fire them when you don't" isn't evil or incompetent. It's correct behavior, and our systems should be built to account for that reality.