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Rolling Layoffs: Tech's New Normal | Grounds for Discussion
This week, Paul and Jen dissect the Reuters headline (via GeekWire): "Amazon cuts hundreds of retail roles during its own Prime Big Deal Days"... a fresh round of corporate job cuts in Amazon's stores unit, hitting about 1,000 employees across the US, India, and the UK, and following roughly 30,000 corporate cuts since October 2025.
The angle: this isn't restructuring anymore, it's routine. Jen and Paul dig into whether rolling layoffs have become a permanent feature of workforce strategy at large tech companies... Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet alike... and what it means that highly profitable…
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