I'm a Stanford professor who's studied organizational behavior for decades. The widespread layoffs in tech are more because of copycat behavior than necessary cost-cutting.

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Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer says copycat behavior is a key factor in the mass layoffs sweeping tech, finance, and other industries.

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I work in HR. Here's the hardest layoff I've ever done.

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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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