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Life in the age of mass layoffs
As large-scale firing becomes standard business practice, researchers are finding unexpected consequences
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A 2015 study by the University of Wisconsin raised what was described as the “new, and rather ominous, concern” of a more quit-friendly workforce.
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Pilita Clark
When Ms Arthi Raghu was suddenly laid off from her sales development job the other week, she went straight on to LinkedIn to write a guide to surviving the first crushing 48 hours of losing your job. So far so normal, except for one thing: The company laying her off – and over 700 of her colleagues – was LinkedIn.
As one of the thousands of people who saw her story wrote, being laid off from LinkedIn and posting about it on LinkedIn was “sort of a boss move”.
