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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by capableweb on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:45PM (#35622123)
That's a hugely biased source, of course.

Assuming you're in the US (as HN is biased in that way, and you're using HN as a source), the unemployment rate seems to hover around ~3.5% for the last year, and it was ~6% two years ago. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by tayo42 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:59PM (#35622274)
There's no way tech is big enough to move that number significantly. It's like repeated sf arguments how the city is dominated by software, except even that city is mostly service and finance jobs.
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