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The tech layoffs continue

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DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON January 12, 2024 ABOUT DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON Sent to the world with HEY

A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs , Twitch cut 35% of staff , Discord is axing 17% , and Unity is cutting a whopping 25% . And we’re just two weeks into the new year! The last time I remember seeing such brutal cuts, so broadly was after the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s. It took years to recover from that, and brought some rough years for anyone trying to

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