Your first two sentences boil down to "why is this here?" > what dictates whether layoffs are news? > this was the most non-news layoff I've seen in some time

Your first two sentences boil down to "why is this here?" > what dictates whether layoffs are news? > this was the most non-news layoff I've seen in some time and I don't understand why we are pretending it is a conversation piece, especially with this title.