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brettmjohnson t1_j6jpket wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in How Big Tech is using mass layoffs to bring workers to heel by diacewrb

220,000 in the last year. A significant chunk of it in the last 2 months.

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[deleted] t1_j6jvyue wrote

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brettmjohnson t1_j6k0xua wrote

It is literally stated in the LA Times article: > This follows 2022’s bloodbath, when tens of thousands of jobs were lost at Meta Platforms, Twitter and Salesforce. According to an industry layoff tracker, the tech sector has eliminated some 220,000 jobs since the start of last year. If the laid-off tech workers formed a city, it’d be one of the most populous in the United States, bigger than Des Moines or Salt Lake City.

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happyscrappy t1_j6k73vg wrote

That tracker lists Carvana and Capital One as tech companies.

We can see that if you merely class every company doing anything as a tech company then "tech" is laying off a lot.

The very idea that Microsoft, Amazon and Carvana are colluding to bring anyone to heel is ridiculous.

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