[roncesvalles]

The "we're in a hiring freeze" press releases all have fairly broad asterisks. New people are being onboarded daily in all of the companies that announced layoffs.

[in_cahoots]

That’s true, but those same companies still wound up doing layoffs later on. So if your criteria is not to work at a company without layoffs then you’re still SOL.

[roncesvalles]

I'd rather join a company post-layoff than pre-layoff.

[luckylion]

Say you're at company A. Company A and B do layoffs of similar size. Why is switching to company B after the layoffs your preferred action?

[janalsncm]

Of course. But in a recession there can be multiple rounds of layoffs.