Tech Layoffs Slow As Quarter Ends
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To date, my data suggests that at least 130 tech-related rounds of layoffs that reached the media have occurred in the first quarter of 2016. So when we discuss layoffs based on notability, we are capturing a moving snapshot of larger reductions in staffing. It may be that the real estate market in San Francisco is set for a correction in the negative — which is ironically positive — sense. And companies like Spoonrocket, which recently shut down, are dealing with the potentially thorny fact that simply being on-demand, and using cheap contract labor does not delete all the difficulties that have always made local and now hard challenges to crack. Continuing the ‘it’s harder now to raise theme,’ an essay went out today from John Sheehan, part of the Runscope team.
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