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It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now::Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.

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[+] [email protected] -42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

There's no evidence that the layoffs at these firms are actually tech workers. Tons of other positions exist at these companies, like managers, sales, marketing, support staff.

My money is on administrative/clerical. This is the easiest to automate.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What on earth do you mean no evidence? I mean just check layoffs.fyi which specifically tracks this.

[–] EncryptKeeper 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m trying to find where on the site where it tracks the type of employees laid off but it doesn’t seem to track that at all?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For companies/employees that choose to share (eg in hopes of getting recruited to a new job) you can even get individuals information from that site. That includes actual job titles.

These companies tend to be very light on administrative roles anyway. So the ratios make sense even if they just laid off 5% of staff in total.

[–] EncryptKeeper 1 points 10 months ago

I’m not seeing that at all. Only total employees laid off and the industry the company is in.

[–] rambaroo 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't know what you're talking about. I personally know multiple devs who were laid off from my company. These companies don't give a shit about your skills anymore, they're purely looking at how much money you cost them.

[–] EncryptKeeper 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Devs are getting laid off, but he actually does have a point that in the case of several of the biggest companies, the hardest hit were middle management, not devs.