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follow up question, why hasn't apple needed to do this? how are they keeping 'tabs' on 'worker power'?
Union-busting, NDA’s, restricting new slack channels, non-competes - all the usual ways!
why haven't the usual ways been sufficient for the rest of the tech companies?
why are the usual ways still sufficient for apple but not for the others???
You mean *consolidate worker power. Critical people don't get layoffs unless they work for a muskcorp.
> “Controlling labor costs via periodic layoffs is like breathing for Silicon Valley: cyclical, necessary for life,” Malcolm Harris
The current wave of layoff is unusual, hence being extensively discussed on sites like HN.
If I might adorn my hat of tin-foil for a second; at a big corp I used to work at, I heard execs predicting this outcome back in early 2022 in combination with being incredibly relaxed about the employment market being extremely hot at the time.
follow up question, why hasn't apple needed to do this? how are they keeping 'tabs' on 'worker power'?
Yet? There's still a lot of market uncertainty.
Would be interesting to see if there is a strong relationship between the companies doing layoffs and the companies who did WFH en masse and might be thinking a layoff will “encourage” their compliance to come back to the office.
One company did exactlly that: everybody must be in the office in 3 weeks, 25% quit, no layoffs needed.
I wish the US had stronger labor laws. :(
Would be interesting to see if there is a strong relationship between the companies doing layoffs and the companies who did WFH en masse and might be thinking a layoff will “encourage” their compliance to come back to the office.
One company did exactlly that: everybody must be in the office in 3 weeks, 25% quit, no layoffs needed.
follow up question, why hasn't apple needed to do this? how are they keeping 'tabs' on 'worker power'?
Guess tech workers should have unionized when they had the chance. As if capital was going to let the most powerful group of workers that's ever existed continue to slip their noose