This year alone, over 135,000 employees in tech have been laid off – and those are only the companies that are being tracked by Layoffs.fyi. There are so many smaller companies falling under the radar (as well as larger companies intentionally keeping their layoffs out of the news cycle), so this number is most likely much larger.
If you’re a leader on a team – whether in an official capacity (as a manager or above) or seen as a thought leader and mentor for others on your team, navigating this change is especially complex. Your team is adjusting to a likely larger workload with reduced resources, team members may have been moved around, and even if your own team has been kept intact (so far), any departure from the company – especially larger ones – can be felt like ripple effects throughout the entire organization.
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