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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day (arstechnica.com)
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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

If a company does layoffs, they should not be allowed to hire any staff in the same or similar roles for 12 months.

The workload doesn't decrease, it just gets spread to the remaining workers who are already overloaded because of the previous round of layoffs...