Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.

It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now::Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    472·
    2 years ago

    Interesting trend in the comments - technology veterans who went through the dotCom crash have quietly moved to union jobs, and aren’t sweating this iteration.

    Worth keeping in mind.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      This sounds like more wishful thinking than reality. Like what SWE roles are there that are union? I graduated right after the dotcom burst, with a Computer Engineering degree, I now work as a SWE, and I don’t know a single one of my peers that has entered a union.

      • Bo7a@lemmy.caEnglish
        37·
        2 years ago

        I would argue they are. My reasoning for this argument would be pointing at the history of the working class.

        What is your reasoning for saying they are not?

        • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
          131·
          2 years ago

          Corporations wouldn’t fight unions so hard (historically trying to kill their members) if unions weren’t both effective and a threat to their power and wealth. They really, REALLY do not want us to unionize.