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There’s always an annual layoff. Media just perpetuating it…
by saos 3y ago
There’s always an annual layoff. Media just perpetuating it…
- dragontamer 3y ago30%+ at Twitch, 17% at Discord, huge numbers at Google (anyone have a % from Google yet?) There's definitely more layoffs this year than usual. There's always layoffs, but the size / scope of them are not traditionally this big.
- xen0 3y agoGoogle are being shy with the numbers. Confirmed 'hundreds'; probably very low thousands? Maybe 1%?
- slekker 3y agolayoffs.fyi says 1000
- tunesmith 3y agoI get a "ripping the bandaid off" sense of it. Like for a lot of them the assumption is "okay, this is the rest of it, and then we are reset to the new normal". No idea whether that assumption is correct, but it seems the mentality is more that than "oh crap, batten down the hatches, another storm is coming".
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- squigz 3y ago> Like for a lot of them the assumption is "okay, this is the rest of it, and then we are reset to the new normal". Not to say this is universal, but I read a comment here on HN just earlier that said their company said this last year... then did the exact same thing this year.
- Groxx 3y agoLots of social and casual-entertainment companies hired a ton for the pandemic "nobody goes outside" surge too. Some of this (and the last year or two) is simply shedding unsustainable increases as everyone gets a better idea of what changes have actually occurred and will stick around. Whether that's a 5% increase or a 500% increase in amount-laid-off though, no idea. And I do worry that the increased media attention will simply make these easier to pull off unjustly, as people get more and more used to seeing it happen.
- tsunamifury 3y agoThe google layoff was in the Hundreds... i.e. what they do normally every year anyway silently. It's just being played up for investors.
- saos 3y agoAren’t these companies who historically try and avoid layoffs? To me is them changing their stance.
- aaomidi 3y agoGoogle did not do layoffs like the one last year really ever before last year.
- paxys 3y agoHow many people did Google lay off annually in January before 2023?
- swingingFlyFish 3y agoNo these sets off layoffs are way different than before.