You can't criticize a company for something they haven't done...

But you can still remain suspicious, see what happens in the coming months, and make yourself an opinion at this point.

> make yourself an opinion at this point

I suspect you mean, "at that point", talking about after "the coming months". If you do indeed mean today (at this point), then I'm actually curious why you think forming the opinion now isn't hasty.

I indeed meant ‶that″, I'm not a native speaker.

The subtleties of this and that sort of elude me, just like these and those.

That is very understandable, even many native speakers get the same sorts of things confused. Your comment just didn't seem so controversial as the lighter text suggested so I was hoping to clear that up. Thanks for confirming!

They don't need to do a layoff to do a layoff. If you just set the (new) HC to 0 or significantly below replacement rate, you get reduction in staff just due to churn. When teams are sizeable, even with very low churn they lose employees over time. And then if you are more insidious, you can start introducing unpopular measures "in the name of business" that increase churn.

This is much better than layoffs for employees.

Looking at the size of the severance packages that Meta, Stripe etc. have been giving in recent downsizings, I think I'd rather be laid off.

That’s reducing costs, not layoffs. Words have meaning.

Totally down to eat my hat and join you if it happens. My pitchfork's looking quite lonely.

Look at Stadia. They were flying out developers and all kinds of things the day before it was cancelled.