[voxl]

Your horribly simplistic take has already received a lot of backlash, but whatever I'm angry enough to add onto the pile:

1. Big tech companies doing layoffs are not hurting on revenue, so your basic assumption is wrong. 2. "Cutting hours" needs to be steelmaned if you're not going to anything but a charlatan. That means you have to interpret it as taking a paycut, as in a salary cut. This has actually been done before in worker-focused companies to survive covid, and in one instance I'm aware of the company gave workers back pay after surviving covid.

You also ignore all the intangibles that are no easy to measure, because of course the business acumen of "make number go up this quarter" is too short sighted to care about institutional knowledge or long term strategy.