"The idea is at some point the banking sector crisis is going to get worse, the layoffs are going to get worse, and the Fed's not going to have a choice."
"Two-thirds of the staff at the Beijing headquarters have been laid off over the past few days, so the company is down to only those who need to keep things running for as long as possible."
"Companies like Twitch started overhiring and went through this period of overgrowth, especially during COVID, and now all at once, they're starting to downsize and lay off a ton of people."
"Microsoft laid off its entire AI ethics team, leaving a critical gap in ensuring responsible AI principles."
"Things are not going great at meta and they just announced they're laying off around 10 000 people."
"Perhaps as it turns out, the most successful businessman in the world made those layoffs because it was the right business decision."
"Maybe they were very close to actually getting those done before the eventual layoffs."
"I want to apologize for the way I handled the layoffs."
"Why then are we seeing so many layoffs and Game Dev Studio closures? The entire industry looks like it's on the brink of collapse."
"No corporate bailout if you are going to lay off workers."
"Layoffs in the games industry just seem to be happening like every other week now."
"This collapse that I'm seeing where companies are laying off tons of people, the upside to this is the way out of the recovery is going to be remote work."
"Remember when everybody said oh this is just a tech thing this is just Tech layoffs yes remember that yep the number of companies that have made layoff announcements is now slightly more than 200."
"Add your task: fast API, React, and MongoDB."
"The layoffs also mean a reshuffling of the talent market in the industry."
"McDonald's is closing 10 field offices, laying off hundreds of corporate employees, and shutting down over a hundred stores in 2023."
"I certainly see layoff announcements, and I see layoff announcements every day. Today was company of the day."
"They post record profits and then lay off super loyal employees."
"The recent layoffs by big internet companies combined with downturns in many sectors and rising unemployment rates suggest that economic and social turmoil could be on the horizon."
"It's hard to see why they absolutely needed to cut that many non-development staff."
"Thousands of people being let go right now it's a great time to be an entrepreneur."
"Activision Blizzard lays off 800 employees despite record financial performance."
"Underneath the hood... they're cutting expenses and they're cutting people."
"The market bottomed in March of 2020 right, we still had so much bad news we still had so many layoffs that were coming the unemployment rate kept skyrocketing during that time."
"The worst day in the history of ESPN: Disney once again laying people off, this time folks on TV on ESPN. The anchors getting the ax. 20 plus people laid off."
"If indeed is cutting 15% of their Workforce, that's a sign that they're seeing something ahead in the U.S economy which is not good."
"Massive layoffs after the New Year... January, February is when we're going to see massive layoffs."
"You are an at-will employee... layoffs happen all the time."
"You can say it's business as much as you like. There's doing business and then there is sacking 72 people. That is appalling."
"The tech industry in general had a really bad week with layoffs."
"Twitch reportedly set to lay off 35% of their staff as soon as tomorrow."
"Disney just laid off 28,000 cast members... executives and all across the board."
"This for all intents and purposes, as far as I can tell, this is likely layoffs and her team just wasn't performing as well as some other team."
"They put the world in a state of chaos, economy crashing, massive layoffs."
"You have 51 percent of companies issuing layoffs, mortgage companies that are going broke, tenants simply cannot pay these rent increases."
"For anyone at CA affected by these layoffs, we wish you the best in what comes next and hope you find only successes in the future."
"The fact that layoffs layoff announcements are at the highest since 2009... these are real people."
"Volkswagen group announced plans to reduce staff size and improve its full year performance as its profit plunged in the first quarter."
"But with all of the layoffs and the economy downturn, we have a lot of devs on the market with way more skills than you or I have."
"While you may be good at your job now, if you do get laid off, you'll need to reenter that workforce as a much more capable developer."
"I feel like now I'm raising the volume because people are now seeing this the hard way because a lot of companies are cutting, and these are easily among the most vulnerable people in a company."
"...the way layoffs were conducted by these large companies was very impersonal."
"The cancellation of all major government orders following VJ Day would lead to a massive reduction in the company workforce."
"'The redundancy hit almost every team which had to lose one to two staff. They fired the guy who built the switch and thus knew it intimately and about half of his underling Engineers.'"
"The shocking layoffs in corporate politics that destroyed our team."
"We just have to be ready for it, be ready is my recommendation here when you're talking about layoffs and problems in I.T."
"Running for cash is now the only alternative to sacking staff."
"Laying off people is the absolute worst thing in the world."
"How can I be loyal to a company that I witnessed for the third time in the last four years just fire entire departments?"
"Job security isn't always guaranteed. Layoffs can happen, and job sites can end overnight."
"You don't understand the human toll that comes along with people getting laid off. It's very emotional."
"The companies know they cannot afford to keep everybody on if the amount of money they're making is not enough."
"You can fill the rosters of at least three or four different promotions with the number of people the WWE has released in 2021."
"So as you make more money, actually focus on decreasing the cost. Yeah, that's how you increase your profits. You'll see it with a lot of companies at the end of the year, they lay off like 30,000 workers, even though they had a bang-up year."
"If you did get laid off, as I said, it can be very unsatisfying. But it's important to remember that layoffs are beyond your control."
"Layoffs and record profits, these are related."
"While we certainly had to lay off some very talented individuals, we’d been left only with superstar players."
"This year the labor market already faced several rounds of massive layoffs."
"We're walking into a wave of automation in the next couple of years and a wave of layoffs the likes of which we've never seen."
"The first cut is the deepest, but in big tech, the cuts keep coming and they get deeper and deeper."
"It's sad and disappointing that these big companies are laying off the working middle-class people that are trying to survive."
"We saw that during COVID, where especially in the United States, there were mass layoffs for companies that called us their family and that was absolutely devastating."
"Tesla is so successful that they're going to be laying off 10% of their staff."
"You have all these people in this company that have learned how Tesla operates, and if you get rid of 20,000 of them, that is a tremendous load on the company just to be able to get everybody back up to speed."
"We're gonna get ready to rock because there's been a lot of designers and developers being laid off."
"With all this talk about layoffs, we have AI on our mind today."