Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power

follow up question,

why hasn't apple needed to do this? how are they keeping 'tabs' on 'worker power'?

That's a (maybe intentional?) misunderstanding of what is normally meant by worker power. We're not talking about the individual influence of workers within the organization, but about the group ability of workers to affect the working conditions.

This claim violates Hanlon’s Razor

“Never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.”

Over-hiring, over-salarying and not anticipating the consequences of a pandemic and post-pandemic on business might qualify as “incompetence”

The thing that bothers me is this tone I'm seeing online and in particular in this discussion where people presume that a salary is owed no matter what, and that withdrawing that salary (as in a firing) is somehow always morally corrupt. I'm Gen X, so when I say "we weren't raised with the expectation that the world owed us anything", I mean it.

EDIT: A better discussion of Hanlon's over here: https://fs.blog/mental-model-hanlons-razor/

"An instance of Hanlon’s razor being proven wrong is the mafia. Prior to the 1960s, the existence of the mafia was considered to be a conspiracy theory. Only when a member contacted law enforcement, did police realize that the malice being perpetrated was carefully orchestrated." (I was not aware of this!)

Many of the higher profile high performers who are now unemployed would seem to be a direct counter example to this claim.

What you’re describing doesn’t seem to match the recent layoffs we’ve witnessed.

So why did Tim Cook take a 40% pay cut?