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The title kind of buried the lede that nearly half of tech workers say they are willing to return after a layoff. This fits my own it’s-just-business attitude,

The title kind of buried the lede that nearly half of tech workers say they are willing to return after a layoff. This fits my own it’s-just-business attitude, but I thought spite would be more common.

altano 3y ago
That's not burying the lede, which means not putting the most important thing in the title or intro paragraph. It's lying for clicks and engagement.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  Don't know if it's lying. >Over half (58%) of 6,000 professionals who responded to a recent Glassdoor poll said they’d never return to a company who laid them off. In the tech sector specifically, just 46% of workers said they’d boomerang. Men were slightly more likely to consider boomeranging than women, and older workers were more open-minded than younger ones. It's not a super majority, but 54-58% does feel like "masses". I can see it both ways here.
  - readthenotes1 3y ago
    It's meaningless until after those people are offered a substantial wage after living through food insecurity for a while.
  - tensor 3y ago
    Even this isn't very relevant. So they won't return to the company that laid them off, but that doesn't mean they won't work for a different company that laid off other people. I highly doubt any of these companies will have a hard time hiring people because of their layoffs. In the end, people will still go work for them because they pay at the top of the market.
    - JohnFen 3y ago
      > but that doesn't mean they won't work for a different company The title didn't imply otherwise to me.
    - johnnyanmac 3y ago
      >So they won't return to the company that laid them off, but that doesn't mean they won't work for a different company that laid off other people. Sure, but I think the point is less "companies that layoff lose good employees for good" and more "if you layoff employee you lose that tribal knowledge forever". Is that something that a company will die from? Probably not, at least not in one fell swoop. But having half the people feel that way is some non-neglible brain drain. Remember that part of the original reason the Big companies paid that much was as an anti-poaching measure. They didn't want competition getting top talent nor for top talent to be future competitors as they startup their own business. I wonder if the latter is going to pop up more with these kinds of movements.
    - mcronce 3y ago
      I'll go work for a different company that laid off other people...unless it was for the same reason. I'm not doing a full-time RTO for any company.

altano 3y ago

That's not burying the lede, which means not putting the most important thing in the title or intro paragraph. It's lying for clicks and engagement.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
Don't know if it's lying. >Over half (58%) of 6,000 professionals who responded to a recent Glassdoor poll said they’d never return to a company who laid them off. In the tech sector specifically, just 46% of workers said they’d boomerang. Men were slightly more likely to consider boomeranging than women, and older workers were more open-minded than younger ones. It's not a super majority, but 54-58% does feel like "masses". I can see it both ways here.
- readthenotes1 3y ago
  It's meaningless until after those people are offered a substantial wage after living through food insecurity for a while.
- tensor 3y ago
  Even this isn't very relevant. So they won't return to the company that laid them off, but that doesn't mean they won't work for a different company that laid off other people. I highly doubt any of these companies will have a hard time hiring people because of their layoffs. In the end, people will still go work for them because they pay at the top of the market.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    > but that doesn't mean they won't work for a different company The title didn't imply otherwise to me.
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    >So they won't return to the company that laid them off, but that doesn't mean they won't work for a different company that laid off other people. Sure, but I think the point is less "companies that layoff lose good employees for good" and more "if you layoff employee you lose that tribal knowledge forever". Is that something that a company will die from? Probably not, at least not in one fell swoop. But having half the people feel that way is some non-neglible brain drain. Remember that part of the original reason the Big companies paid that much was as an anti-poaching measure. They didn't want competition getting top talent nor for top talent to be future competitors as they startup their own business. I wonder if the latter is going to pop up more with these kinds of movements.
  - mcronce 3y ago
    I'll go work for a different company that laid off other people...unless it was for the same reason. I'm not doing a full-time RTO for any company.