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

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[–] primordial 15 points 1 year 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...