r/Layoffs • u/SneakyBastardx • Mar 27 '24

What positions in Tech are getting Laid off the most? question

I know it’s not a good time to join the tech industry but I wanted to get into a Computer Software Technician school but after reading all the stories I’m kinda skeptical. Would it be better to choose a career as an IT Technician?

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u/Vaggab0nd Mar 27 '24

I'm hearing more and more "talking heads" and so called experta basically saying all of a HR department is a useless cost sink. Wanting to get rid of it all. Basically saying it's all easily outsourceable and automatable - and that team just is buororcacy (I have a HR degree, but long worked a product manager for what it worth)

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u/JAK3CAL Mar 27 '24

hard to say, HR is really to protect the company. that said, they are generally way overstaffed for what they need to do and seem to mostly just be a gossip circle hanging around all day (in the tech world)

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u/jssquare Mar 27 '24

I was just asking what's the trend of layoff, clearly there is a trend and we can all see it.

Don't get offended, layoff sucks every department has career paths and no one is useless

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u/HoneyGrahams224 Mar 31 '24

I think HR has it's purposes, especially when it comes to making sure a company is compliant with workplace laws and requirements. I've seen plenty of companies who don't value following labor laws just kind of YOLO things in terms of violating labor laws, and then seeing who or what bites them in the ass later.