Yes, and I'll admit that experiences can be quite different in different industries, companies, countries, whatever. However, if you go back to a question I po

Yes, and I'll admit that experiences can be quite different in different industries, companies, countries, whatever. However, if you go back to a question I posed further up: "Imagine that you must reduce payroll. How do you do it without a layoff? What other option is there to purge a portion of your staff without causing lots of other problems? If you accept the notion that there are some companies which will periodically purge some staff, and then observe that some of those companies rarely or never have layoffs, then don't you have to accept that there are some similar shenanigans playing out at some of these companies from time to time?