Yes, during the pandemic staffing levels surged so even these 15% cuts aren’t even getting close to pre-pandemic numbers. People also forget that even though a

Yes, during the pandemic staffing levels surged so even these 15% cuts aren’t even getting close to pre-pandemic numbers. People also forget that even though a company may be classified as Tech, they hire a lot of people in different professions than software to keep the business going - sales, accounting, HR, marketing, etc. Tech is also only like 2% of jobs in the US so layoffs in the tech sector, especially advertising tech (meta, google), aren’t indicative of cross-industry layoffs. I could see after some time that custom AI apps/prompts could supplant traditional search that has been around for 25 years. SEO will become irrelevant when custom AI tools exist that narrow the focus and allow follow-up questions and context.