[Espressosaurus]

https://layoffs.fyi/

In this most recent set of layoffs (which I'm defining as starting in 2022 since that's the dataset they have available) January is the worst month for layoffs.

[surge]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, most companies at least wait until after the holidays to serve the bad news.

[brianwawok]

As an evil corp thought experiment - Dec is normally low productivity.. lots of vacations ,etc. If you are going to lay someone off in Jan, why not lay off in Dec and avoid paying for paid holidays?

[surge]

Or paying out bonuses for the prior year since you don't let them finish the year that makes them entitled to the bonus.