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PayPal Begins Company Wide Layoffs (seekingalpha.com)
7 points by danielsokil 872 days ago
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toomuchtodo 872 days ago
9% of global workforce, ~2500 employees.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/paypal-to... | https://archive.today/XSojt

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favourable 872 days ago
What's causing all these layoffs? Like, it's all I read in my feeds these days! Economic downturn or something more novel, like AI replacing jobs?
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toomuchtodo 872 days ago
Desperation for trailing returns that have evaporated post "COVID bump" and ZIRP. Labor market is firing on all cylinders [1], it is the capital markets that are sad [2].

[1] https://www.axios.com/2024/01/30/us-job-openings-report-stea...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-14/end-of-co... | https://archive.today/0V56d

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