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It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 9 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] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because the economy has added more than 300k jobs in 3 single months over the past year. If you go back to the beginning of 22, that number goes up to 9.

While 300k jobs sounds like a big number, represents a small fraction of our economy. It doesn't even account for 0.2% of total employment. And that's over a year.

That being said, I'm glad I snagged my job when I did and that I'm being treated like I'm excelling at it.