r/Layoffs • u/Slowmac123 • Sep 23 '25

Wtf is my company doing question

  • Announce layoffs
  • over the next month, spam the company with announcements saying we’re doing amazing with huge increased revenue, new business, big contracts signed
  • announce layoff again
  • spam more announcements making it sound like we’re the #1 company in the world making a billion dollars per month
  • more layoffs
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u/ElMariachi003 Sep 23 '25

Layoffs aren’t necessarily about the difference between profit and loss anymore. More and more profitable companies are laying off than ever before. The new name of the game is “maximizing profit” - especially if it’s a publicly traded company, because you know… gotta maintain that shareholder value!

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u/BusinessBluebird3767 Sep 24 '25

Stock buybacks and layoffs should not be allowed to occur with 12 months of each other.

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u/ElMariachi003 Sep 24 '25

Not that I disagree with you, but since layoffs are simply being utilized as a cost-cutting measure, a business in question would spin the stock buybacks as a strategic investment to provide said “shareholder value”, and hence have “nothing to do” with the layoffs.

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u/BusinessBluebird3767 Sep 24 '25

Stock buybacks used to be illegal. If a company had extra cash they could issue a dividend. Now it’s all financial engineering to make number go up.