Microsoft Layoffs, Amazon Layoffs, And What’s Actually Happening In Tech

Tech layoffs have been dominating the headlines, but they are not only misleading but potentially harmful to those making decisions about the future of their career.

The U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs in the last month of the year alone. Yes, Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees this month, but did you know that they’ve added almost 80,000 jobs to their workforce since 2019?

Amazon has also been in the news because they just laid off 18,000 people, but did you know that in 2021 alone they hired 300,000 people to grow their workforce to 1.6 million employees?

So, what’s really happening in tech, and how

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