by Michael

It seems that the tsunami of layoffs that began late final yr is beginning to speed up.  January was a horrible month for job losses, and main layoff bulletins are coming quick and livid right here in February.  However in fact the Biden administration would have us consider that every part is simply high quality.  Final week, the federal government advised us that the U.S. economic system “added 517,000 jobs” in January.  However as I mentioned in a earlier article, that wasn’t what really occurred.  The uncooked, unadjusted quantity confirmed that the U.S. economic system really misplaced 2.5 million jobs final month.  That could be a horrible quantity, however after the bureaucrats in Washington have been accomplished with their “changes” it magically turned a achieve of 517,000 jobs.  If you wish to have religion that their “changes” are acceptable, good for you.  However different sources additionally verify that issues have actually taken a flip for the more serious.  For instance, Challenger, Grey & Christmas simply issued a report that concluded that final month “was the worst January for job cuts because the Nice Recession in 2009”…

U.S. corporations introduced roughly 103,000 job cuts in January, the very best month-to-month whole since September 2020, a Thursday evaluation discovered.

Final month was the worst January for job cuts because the Nice Recession in 2009, in accordance with a report from employment agency Challenger, Grey & Christmas.

Round 40 p.c of final month’s job reductions got here within the tech trade, the place Google father or mother firm Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce introduced plans to put off hundreds of staff. Lots of the corporations stated they grew too rapidly in recent times and should lower prices to spice up profitability.

So many giant corporations introduced workers reductions final month, and that development has positively continued this month.

The next are 12 main layoffs which have already been introduced in February…

#1 Disney has determined to inform roughly 7,000 workers to hit the bricks…

“We shall be decreasing our workforce by roughly 7,000 jobs,” CEO Bob Iger stated through the firm’s first quarter earnings name. “Whereas that is mandatory to deal with the challenges we’re dealing with at the moment, I don’t make this determination evenly. I’ve monumental respect and appreciation for the expertise and dedication of our workers worldwide, and I’m aware of the non-public impression of those modifications.”

#2 Yahoo has introduced that it is going to be shedding “greater than 20% of its workforce”…

Yahoo will lay off greater than 20% of its workforce by the top of 2023, eliminating 1,000 positions this week alone, the corporate stated in a press release Thursday.

#3 Ebay was doing fairly effectively, however now they’ve determined that 4 p.c of their staff are not wanted…

Ebay on Tuesday introduced plans to chop 500 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce, in accordance with a submitting with the SEC.

#4 Affirm is yet one more tech firm that has not too long ago decided to conduct mass layoffs…

Affirm introduced it’s chopping 19% of its workforce Wednesday. The information got here because it reported second quarter earnings that fell beneath analyst estimates on each the highest and backside strains.

#5 Because the U.S. housing crash deepens, JPMorgan Chase has concluded that now could be the time to “lower a whole lot of mortgage workers”…

JPMorgan Chase & Co. lower a whole lot of mortgage workers this week, including to job losses throughout the trade as home-lending companies proceed to be damage by elevated rates of interest.

#6 GoDaddy simply let their staff know that they plan to “cut back the dimensions of our international workforce by about 8%”…

At this time, we’re asserting a plan to cut back the dimensions of our international workforce by about 8%. This can come as tough information for a lot of valued and revered GoDaddy workforce members.

#7 Micron is likely one of the greatest non-public employers in Idaho, however now it intends to “cut back its international headcount by about 10% over the subsequent yr”…

Micron has begun shedding staff, a spokesperson for the corporate advised the Idaho Statesman.

The information marks the start of the corporate’s plan to cut back its international headcount by about 10% over the subsequent yr. Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra introduced throughout a quarterly convention name with buyers in December that the corporate is taking vital steps to cut back prices and working bills as demand for its principal merchandise wanes.

#8 GitHub has turn out to be yet one more sufferer of the downsizing development within the tech trade…

Microsoft-owned GitHub is shedding 10% of its workers, the corporate confirmed to Fortune.

#9 Nomad Well being simply laid off roughly 20 p.c of their total company workforce…

Nomad Well being, a healthcare staffing startup, laid off round 20% of its company workforce this week, in accordance with 4 terminated workers, because the surge in journey nurses and different momentary healthcare staff ignited by the pandemic cools down.

#10 Zoom is giving the axe to roughly 1,300 staff…

Zoom on Tuesday stated it can lay off about 1,300 workers, or roughly 15% of its workers, changing into the newest tech firm to announce vital job cuts as a pandemic-fueled surge in demand for digital companies wanes.

#11 Boeing was supposedly going to be hiring extra staff, however as an alternative the corporate simply introduced that hundreds of positions in finance and human sources shall be eradicated…

“We anticipate about 2,000 reductions this yr primarily in Finance and HR by means of a mix of attrition and layoffs,” Boeing confirmed Monday.

#12 Do you bear in mind when Dell computer systems have been nonetheless standard?  Sadly, the tide has turned and now Dell has been pressured to do away with 6,650 staff…

Dell Applied sciences Inc. is eliminating about 6,650 roles because it faces plummeting demand for private computer systems, changing into the newest expertise firm to announce hundreds of job cuts.

I may go on and on if you need.

There are numerous different companies which have additionally simply introduced vital layoffs.

We really haven’t confronted financial circumstances like this because the Nice Recession, and a latest Gallup survey appears to underscore this level…

Reflecting on their private monetary conditions, 35% of People say they’re higher off now than they have been a yr in the past, whereas 50% are worse off. Since Gallup first requested this query in 1976, it has been uncommon for half or extra of People to say they’re worse off. The one different instances this occurred was through the Nice Recession period in 2008 and 2009.

Sadly, we’re nonetheless solely within the very early chapters of this new disaster.  As I’ve been warning for years, issues will ultimately get a lot worse.

Our leaders have been making extremely dangerous choices for many years, and now we’re going to get to undergo the implications of these dangerous choices.

This era was handed the keys to the best financial machine that the world has ever seen, however we wrecked it.

Now the chickens are coming residence to roost, and most People are fully unprepared for what’s coming subsequent.