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Not to be pedantic, but if they executed a 11% layoff and later executed a 17% layoff of the remaining, that does NOT add up to 28%. That math is incorrect. Ple
by jay-barronville 4y ago
Not to be pedantic, but if they executed a 11% layoff and later executed a 17% layoff of the remaining, that does NOT add up to 28%. That math is incorrect. Please fix the title.
- ezfe 4y ago26.1%
- shapefrog 4y ago26.13%
- lostlogin 4y agoThis is the best I could find: “According to Twilio’s latest earnings release, the company had 8,992 employees as of September 30, 2022 and expected to lay off 816 employees for the 2022 round of layoffs. Based on these figures, around 1,400 people will be impacted by this year’s layoffs.” So that’s 2216 total out of 8992, 24.6% https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/13/twilio-cuts-17-of-its-workforce-just-months-after-previous-round-of-layoffs/amp/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLm56Lw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMv-9KB6kjY22wzhJYhmtUtD0EqW7Q6B5owfYLDq4ZJSWZO5d_w1e31i-xTsGQpSJ4-VcaDHz5gwzxywbVWMF5KCms6nHOtShuqROf_TGTPUWkd-3RuHqZiP_2Z9mR_AHsmK8tB271NSwKnDt1ka3FB3IxmWBjGTdh9MhwK003sf https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/13/twilio-cuts-17-of-its-work...
- ryanisnan 4y agoBeing correct with mathematics isn't pedantic, it's just good sense.
- chucksmash 4y agoAnd compulsively annotating where other people are being incorrect with mathematics isn't good sense, it's just being pedantic
- ryanisnan 4y agoI hemmed and hawed on whether or not I'd consider this pedantry, and you're probably right - it probably is.
- japhib 4y agoif it's only off by 2%, it's a bit pedantic :D
- nerdponx 4y ago2%, or 2 percentage points? ;)
- dpacmittal 4y agoIt's not about being pedantic, if they got high school math wrong what else did they get wrong
- siva7 4y agothat's still pedantic. not everyone is a math person
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- haswell 4y agoThe percentage has no direct relevance to the linked content, and doesn't belong in the title at all, IMO.
- playingalong 4y agoUnless both percentages use to the same reference - eg. payroll from 2022-01-01. (no idea if that's the case here)
- vecter 4y agoThat would be a 26.13% layoff. The first layoff left you with 89%. Of that 89%, you lost another 83%. 0.89 * 0.83 = 0.7387. 1 - 0.7387 is how much you lost = 0.2613 = 26.13%. It's probably clearer to reason about if you have two consecutive 50% layoffs. Clearly you didn't have a 100% layoff. Your workforce got cut in half twice, leaving you with 25% of what you had originally (or a 75% layoff).
- phphphphp 4y agoTo be pedantic, I think the phrase you want is: to be pedantic.
- paulgb 4y agoTo be exceedingly pedantic, I think GP is using the phrase “not to be pedantic” as a magical incantation intended to make the pedentry following it not pedantic, the same way people say “no offense” before saying something offensive, or “not financial advice” on YouTube videos that give financial advice.
- jay-barronville 4y agoIt’s more so that I don’t view being correct with math as being pedantic but I understand it can be perceived that way in this case. In other words, my intention isn’t to be pedantic.
- jonny_eh 4y agoOr putting on hazard lights means "I'm allowed to park illegally here".
- BoorishBears 4y agoIf that's not what that means, why did BMW put these hazard lights on my car?
- jonny_eh 4y agoOh sure, it is meant to increase visibility when you're car stalled is the middle of the road. I meant to refer to scenarios when illegally double parked on a side street, or in a handicap spot.
- BoorishBears 4y agoYes precisely, it seems you are implying the yellow lights aren't primarily for allowing me to double park as I please? Why else would BMW spend time and effort adding yellow lights to each corner of the vehicle?
- maerF0x0 4y agonot to be pedantic but there likely was additional attrition and hires in the interim, without exact head counts there's little way to properly state a single number so why pick on it?
- bedast 4y agoTo be pedantic, the original 11% layoff was a lot longer than 6 hours ago, which the original headline noted. So the correct percentage is 17%.