Re:The Burnout Machine
by daedrdev on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:06PM
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Most people actually don't work at immensely profitable FAANG companies.
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And yet they're so massive that them all doing layoffs at the same time despite that profitability has a huge impact on the labor market of the while industry.
If someone produces less effort than they cost, it's reasonable to fire them even if the organization as a whole is profitable. That's probably not what the FAANG companies did, but layoffs are not unjustifiable for profitable companies.