How many people do you personally know who were laid off in the past year (or two)?
0 (zero)38.5%
1 (one)17.9%
< 5 (less than five)25.6%
> 5 (more than five)17.9%
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How many people do you personally know who were laid off in the past year (or two)?
The scale of the answers might be misleading. Some of us are pretty anti-social, so knowing one person who got laid off is not trivial.
I only know 6 people. They're all either retired or imprisoned
Some people have jobs in prison.
Yes, but not these two.
And one of them is you?
Parole board is next month. Fingers crossed.
Personally 2, but wider my Linkedin feed is filled with people looking for new jobs, especially marketers and recruiters in the tech sector/saas businesses, its absolute carnage
Yeah, recruiters are being mercilessly sacked left and right. A real carnage.
Saw a girl get fired via email the other day but I don't know her except through viral video.
My sense is that a bunch of this is big companies realizing, little by little, that LLMs really do amplify people to the extent that you can do more with less. Combined with the fact that a lot of those companies carry a lot of chaff. If I'm right, momentum will build steadily.
also makes their stock go up :/
It's a chilling state of affairs when machines can do people's jobs better than real people.
Unfortunately, based on my interactions with this generation of youngsters, I'm not surprised at all
What if I know 5 exactly?
Aha!
Asking the real questions!
Not laid off, but some are being "pushed" to leave. No raises with inflation still high and interest rates high. Even in tech that it was very easy to find a better pay is not like that anymore. Everything is cutting and contracting.
Only one person I know has been fired so far, so I don't know if there is a bloodbath in the job market, I dont think so really.
Personally I know 2 people that got made redundant
Both are struggling to find similar employment
We’ll I know many from my company, so did not count those. Of friends, it’s been 1 or 2 that I know of.
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