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Nov 7 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Another layoff season is here.

• But why does this keep happening in the first place?
• How structural is this issue?
• Who gets fired? Who gets retained?
• How do employees and employers manage this situation?

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'Hire to grow, fire to sustain': An explainer on the layoff loop of Indian startups

Reported by @tam_arund and @RuhiKandhari

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Replug: the-ken.com/story/hire-gro…
In the first half of 2022, nearly 10,000 people were laid off at Indian startups.

"Roles, salaries, and tenure, all become important decisions in deciding who stays and who goes", wrote @tam_arund

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Replug: the-ken.com/story/is-your-… This graphic shows the role...
Is the employee incapable? Or is the employer heartless?

Host @shreevz explores beyond this binary in Episode 2 of our podcast, Cost To Company.

Replug | Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who…

Google Podcasts:
podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2MsbgG…

(4/7) Quote from Tanay Pratap—CEO...
A study from Michael Page showed that 40% of the ones surveyed had been unemployed for more than six months.

@ditanyil reported on how the global layoff trend impacted Indonesia's tech talent:

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While the number of layoffs has not changed, how we talk about it—in 2022—has.

There is a fine line between 'victim' and 'vulnerable'. Recent stories on layoff are choosing the latter, wrote @RuhiKandhari:

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There are some signals that the current layoff winter will get a lot worse.

And that it will last longer than anytime in our recent history, wrote @peegeekay in the previous edition of The Nutgraf:

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the-ken.com/the-nutgraf/br…

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