Sony announced a ton of layoffs recently, at the same time they announced they will not be releasing any major titles until 2025. Don’t they need staff to make stuff? doesn’t every company? Why all the sudden layoffs, it just doesn’t make sense to me, what am I missing?
You were all over it until you went cApiTisM BAD!
Yes, the tech sector went nuts and overstaffed. For reasons (see below). But now some people have to go.
Ever had a job at a big company where you’re doing very little, not accomplishing much? It’s miserable and scary.
We’re social animals. We do well in small groups, contributing. When you look around your team and no one’s doing shit, you get no sense of accomplishment and start asking each other, “Fuck are we doing here and when does the ax drop?” Morale tanks hard.
As to the suits being stupid, were you the CEO of Zoom, what would you have done at the beginning of the pandemic? Just said, “Fuck it. We’re riding this unprecedented event out! No idea the fucks going to happen, but we’ll tough it out with the staff we got!”
Then you would be bitching about overworked employees, miserable and unable to accomplish anything for the fire hose of work hitting them. Then you would bitch about how Zoom used to be great and really tanked during the pandemic.
I’m sure lemmy will come along and tell me how much more wisely they would have handled a century-event hitting a brand-new sector of the economy.
(And BTW, many of the people let go are walking off with a FAT new entry on their resumes. Tech jobs aren’t hard to find, even in slim times. Been there, done that.)