Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructuring

Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by sokoloff on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:30PM (#34248593)

I like it more than the (admittedly extreme) situation in France. There could be a happy medium, but going far enough down the road to making it hard to fire makes it hard to get hired.

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by mattkrause on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:35PM (#34249527)

I feel like there's a fairly big difference in effects between:

- "If we hire this specific person, we might be stuck with them for a while" and

- "If we build out this entire department, we can't close it down on a whim"

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by sokoloff on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:23PM (#34250127)

I think where a lot of companies find themselves is "[last year] we think we're going to grow 20% next year and need to hire 15% to cover that business growth; [this year] oops, we only grew 5%, meaning we should have only grown headcount by 2% and now need to layoff around 10% of our staff to keep our financials sound and protect the jobs of the other 90%"

I think that's a lot of repeated applications of the former case.

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