[joshuahedlund]

I was surprised by how much many of these companies, already huge, expanded further in 2020-21 when covid “changed everything” until it didn’t. (Hiring 10k more people in a year doesn’t make the news; laying them off does)

I wonder if part of the broad labor shortage of the last year or two was from so many people pivoting into remote roles for tech companies (not all engineering roles either). It was unsustainable. Now things are going back.