Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that?::undefined

  • aguyinheatEnglish
    92•5 months ago

    Shulman adds: “They’re getting away with it because everybody is doing it. And they’re getting away with it because now it’s the new normal,” he said. “Workers are more comfortable with it, stock investors are appreciating it, and so I think we’ll see it continue for some time.”

    ughh this makes my blood boil

    yeah workers are “OK” with it, yeah, no, they’re too fucking terrified they’re next to do anything about it

    hate this guy

      • aguyinheatEnglish
        15•5 months ago

        well i mean yeah. but unionizing would be the thing to do about it. it’s just hard because people are scared for their job and scared to be out of a job right now, so they don’t want to take the risk. even though it’s fairly obvious that it’s a bigger risk not to…

      • Sentient LoomEnglish
        14•5 months ago

        Many of us are contractors, which just means employees with no rights who you can lay off without an excuse.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•5 months ago

        Unions can’t stop layoffs - at best they can just change the order in which employees are laid off (First-in Last-out / seniority), I guess the process might make the company reconsider, but there’s no direct intervention.

        I’m a member of a union and went through layoffs.

        I think it’d only change if unions had power on the board / guaranteed share ownership, etc. as is the case in Germany (board representation with workers’ councils) and was proposed but rejected in Sweden (share ownership).