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		Apocryphon on Jan 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power Weren't periodic layoffs something that happened up to and during the dot-com bust? I'm talking about '80s-'90s Silicon Valley.

gumby on Jan 30, 2023 [–]

I don't remember that at all, and I was working in the Valley through that period.

There were a lot in the dotcom crash but that was aperiodic.

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