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		chaosharmonic 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Video game union workers rally against $55B privat... > I don't think you need to "justify layoffs". If a company feels an employee is not being productive, they should be allowed to let them go. Layoffs, by definition, aren't about individual employees.

s1artibartfast 61 days ago [–]

By Legal definition. On the other hand, I have never seen a layoff that wasnt about individual employee performance

chaosharmonic 60 days ago | [–]

I mean.

There was that time Zuck made a bad bet on VR and then the entire dept working on it got slashed...

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