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Re:Video game union workers rally against $55B private acqui... by chaosharmonic on Thursday October 16, 2025 @01:55PM (#45608573)
> I don't think you need to "justify layoffs". If a company feels an employee is not being productive, they should be allowed to let them go.

Layoffs, by definition, aren't about individual employees.

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Re:Video game union workers rally against $55B private acqui... by s1artibartfast on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:07PM (#45612700)
By Legal definition. On the other hand, I have never seen a layoff that wasnt about individual employee performance
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Re:Video game union workers rally against $55B private acqui... by chaosharmonic on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:14PM (#45620790)
I mean.

There was that time Zuck made a bad bet on VR and then the entire dept working on it got slashed...

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