Why thinking of your work as a family can be so toxic and what you can do instead

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Quiet layoffs are underway.
Layoffs across the tech sector have shown that viewing work as your family can have serious downsides.

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Meta's layoffs were expensive — it may have spent more than $88,000 per employee to cut 11,000 from the ranks

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's first conference dedicated to messaging
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg cut 13% of the company's workforce in November.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a U-turn on metaverse spending as Reality Labs is hit with a new 'efficiency' mantra

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Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook's first ever Meta Store

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Mark Zuckerberg declares 2023 'the year of efficiency.' More Meta layoffs are likely.

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Mark Zuckerberg at the Paley Center For Media on October 25, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg said in Meta's fourth quarter earnings release that 2023 will be the "year of efficiency.'

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FedEx is laying off more than 10% of managers in a cost-cutting crusade. Read the full memo from the CEO.

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After frantically cutting costs for the last several months, FedEx announced it's laying off about 10% of its officers and directors.

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A tech CEO apologized for quoting Martin Luther King Jr. when announcing layoffs, calling it 'inappropriate and insensitive'

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Dr. Martin Luther King addresses people on April 3 1968; PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada in October 2019
PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada said the quote she had included from Martin Luther King Jr. was "inappropriate and insensitive."

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A lot of big employers are slashing jobs, but these companies — from Chipotle to United Airlines — are still hiring

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A Chipotle ordering bar.
Chipotle is one of several companies that recently announced hiring sprees as other large employers, mostly in tech and finance, have cut jobs.

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A senior director at LinkedIn shares 3 tips for job searching right now — and how to DM someone who has the job you want

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Monica Lewis says she's seen what it takes to succeed in a job search from working at LinkedIn.

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3 ways to save money to pay bills after a layoff, especially if you have high credit card balances

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I was working toward a promotion at Amazon when my manager started emailing me about needing coaching. Now I'm worried about losing my job.

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Amazon employees in the Spheres
A corporate marketing manager at Amazon said they started getting strange communication from their manager and are worried their job is in danger.

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