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Meta may be gearing up for yet another round of layoffs as employees report receiving lower-than-average performance reviews this week.

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Google miscalculated the number of stocks laid-off employees were told they would receive as part of a severance package last month. The company laid off 12,000 employees, marking the largest round of layoffs since Google’s inception.

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Silicon Valley layoffs have become commonplace in the last several months as one after another announced they were letting staff go.

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Some employees are "career cushioning" to protect themselves in case they are laid off.
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A logo sits illuminated outside the Google booth at ISE 2023 and IOT Solution World Congress at Fira Barcelona on January 31, 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
Google employees who were laid off have rushed to Discord to vent and get financial advice.
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Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
In November, Meta said it was cutting more than 11,000 roles.
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PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada, the author of the worst tech layoff email in recent months, wants you to know that she’s sorry. She refused to use the word “layoffs” and quoted Martin Luther King Jr., perhaps not right thing to do when laying off 7% of your employees.