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Layoff season (lemy.lol)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not in most of Europe, because we have worker protection laws in place that disincentivize this type of behaviour (sometimes so much so, that critics say it makes the job market too "rigid").

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Depends on the countries, in France yeah, in the Netherlands I saw almost yearly layoffs at the tech companies I worked at.