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Re:Why “Copycat” Layoffs Won’t Help Tech Companies – Or Thei... by roncesvalles on Sunday January 22, 2023 @02:11PM (#34481141)
The "we're in a hiring freeze" press releases all have fairly broad asterisks. New people are being onboarded daily in all of the companies that announced layoffs.
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Re:Why “Copycat” Layoffs Won’t Help Tech Companies – Or Thei... by in_cahoots on Sunday January 22, 2023 @02:13PM (#34481165)
That’s true, but those same companies still wound up doing layoffs later on. So if your criteria is not to work at a company without layoffs then you’re still SOL.
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Re:Why “Copycat” Layoffs Won’t Help Tech Companies – Or Thei... by roncesvalles on Sunday January 22, 2023 @02:22PM (#34481280)
I'd rather join a company post-layoff than pre-layoff.
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Re:Why “Copycat” Layoffs Won’t Help Tech Companies – Or Thei... by luckylion on Sunday January 22, 2023 @02:28PM (#34481345)
Say you're at company A. Company A and B do layoffs of similar size. Why is switching to company B after the layoffs your preferred action?
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Re:Why “Copycat” Layoffs Won’t Help Tech Companies – Or Thei... by janalsncm on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:01PM (#34481631)
Of course. But in a recession there can be multiple rounds of layoffs.
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