Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.

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.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    951·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • macaroni1556English
      141·
      10 months ago

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

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        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?

        • macaroni1556English
          1·
          10 months ago

          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.

    • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        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.