Tech Layoffs Keep Coming. Why Is Head Count Barely Budging?

Headcount isn't going down because the layoffs aren't principaled actions to "right-size" companies, but rather convenient buttons pushed to make numbers look better. The underlying causes of headcount growth are never meaningfully addressed afterwards, so any losses are quickly grown back after a token hiring freeze.

Don't have access to the full article, but off shoring seems like a big factor. Lot of laid off teams are being reconstituted in LCOL countries like Romania and India

A lot of this is also to right size the inflated compensation given out in 2022-2023. My company(US based) has been stack ranking aggressively to manage people out but we have 2x the headcount available to hire this year. They are trying to uplevel the force in their own words, I don’t think it’s good for existing employee morale though.

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Would genuinely like to know what additional value Amazon is getting from hiring nearly, what, 900k people since 2018?<p>I mean, seriously, what do they all do?<p>I can&#x27;t fathom onboarding that many people in that space of time and integrating them into an employment structure in any reasonable way. It seems like 75% of your existing workforce would have to be dedicated to onboarding and training.<p>How are you seriously bringing that many people onboard and having them genuinely contribute?

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