Ask HN: Have you not been laid off?

Posted by mkagenius on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:07PM
from the ask-hn dept.

This is the counterpart of the original thread "Ask HN: Have you been laid off?" . So that we have a balanced view, since if your question is biased, you will only get biased answers, which will lead to panic unnecessarily.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by wildengineer on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:31PM (#22634499)

I run a remote-first consulting company. So far everything is good. My clients are all pushing me to work for them. I even signed and started a new contract in the middle of all this. That said, it is unsettling to watch the world crumble around me while my business is growing.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by muzani on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:35AM (#22626193)

I haven't. I'm really enjoying the quarantine, hope it goes on forever. We're working faster now that we have more energy without the long & dangerous commute. Everyone seems more relaxed (except the ones whose tables got taken over by their kids). Weather's been great too.

Though we're selling stuff to the government related to controlling and living with the pandemic, so things have been rosy.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by codegeek on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:36PM (#22629719)

I run a small company so I am on the other side BUT I can tell you that there is a lot of concern right now if we will be able to sustain the same levels as normal even though we are SAAS and should not be directly impacted. I am just worried if this situation will unleash more issues in next few weeks and I really cannot/do not want to lay anyone off in our team.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by evangelosdotnl on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:02AM (#22626333)

My company switched to fully remote, so everything seems to be running smoothly. Most of the team members do not like it though, happiness has been dropped, and generally, we face the challenge on keeping everyone on the same pace and office dynamics we had.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by vaggdan on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:04AM (#22626338)

I somehow feel the same.. although everything seems to run okay, productivity is reduced.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by facorreia on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:12PM (#22629498)

We've switched to working remotely. So far morale is good.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by kleer001 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:58PM (#22633082)

Same. Small company (30-ish) in an industry that runs medium (200) to large (2500). From what I've heard recently the big guys are having a heck of a time and stumbling to get their workforce working remotely.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by tcbasche on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:55AM (#22625456)

The company I work for has switched to fully remote. Our team has handled it pretty well so far, but I know others within the company (particularly non-development teams) are finding it challenging.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by dmarlow on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:54AM (#22637983)

Curious to see how things at FAANG are going. Maybe they start seeing some of the benefits and adopt remote work in the future.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you not been laid off? by diehunde on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:17PM (#22633220)

I haven’t and I’m a consultant currently on the bench. We got some emails saying there’s nothing to worry about. Still worried though.

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