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> layoffs.fyi

Website started tracking sometime in 2022.

> there are a lot of rows with more than 5% fired or where the numbers are in several hundreds to thousands.

These include "Non-Technical staff" which have been the majority of laid off employees. [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

> they don't use mass firing as a means.

They do. Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple all had yearly layoffs for underperformers, while maintaining growing headcounts. Target was around 5-10%. The difference is these layoffs were not nearly as talked about in the media.

[0] https://interviewing.io/blog/2022-layoffs-engineers-vs-other...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layo...

[2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-te...

[3] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-0...

[4] https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics...



A lot of the people who got laid off from Google were not "under performers".




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