The view of laying off in a bull market being bad PR implies those companies wanted to lay people off in the first place. During the bull market they were figh

The view of laying off in a bull market being bad PR implies those companies wanted to lay people off in the first place. During the bull market they were fighting with each other to hire more, which is the opposite signal. Sure the bear market allows them to layoff, but I don’t think they wanted to lay anyone off up until 6 months ago.