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by bink 1298 days ago
What's even more flabbergasting is that this only brings them back to the same headcount they had 12 months ago. This is true of almost all the mass layoffs we've seen (twitter excepted). Companies were on a ridiculous binge over the last year. Every time this comes up people explain it as predictions based on the effects of the pandemic, but I don't buy it. This was like a mass delusion.