Layoffs at big companies have nothing to do with individual impact.
There might be exceptions, and with companies that are cash-strapped (or smaller companies in general) the situation might be different.
But for big companies, it's just a matter of the executives deciding that they don't want to invest in a specific org/project anymore ( or they want to offshore ) and if you're in one of the affected orgs/projects, you're out of luck.
But presumably NYTimes doesn't employ that many people, and even fewer tech workers
> it's just a matter of the executives deciding that they don't want to invest in a specific org/project anymore ( or they want to offshore ) and if you're in one of the affected orgs/projects, you're out of luck
This seems really simplistic. It's certainly happened before, but it seems ludicrous to just assume that executive whim is always the cause. Another reason is if a company is doing badly financially, something needs to change.
It's not an either-or. When the company's doing badly financially and something needs to change, the mechanics of figuring out what needs to change involve a lot of executive judgment, which is not necessarily correlated with facts on the ground as the members of specific orgs or projects might see them.
There might be exceptions, and with companies that are cash-strapped (or smaller companies in general) the situation might be different.
But for big companies, it's just a matter of the executives deciding that they don't want to invest in a specific org/project anymore ( or they want to offshore ) and if you're in one of the affected orgs/projects, you're out of luck.
But presumably NYTimes doesn't employ that many people, and even fewer tech workers