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# Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power
- URL: https://werd.io/big-tech-is-using-layoffs-to-crush-worker-power/
- Published: 2023-02-06T04:56:40.000Z
- Updated: 2023-02-06T04:56:40.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“Workers in an industry that had long been famously union-agnostic at best had been forming bonds, organizing and developing solidarity. Layoffs of this scale and suddenness can be a blow to that process. \[…\] If there’s one thing that firing people in a large-scale and seemingly random way accomplishes, it’s instilling a sense of precarity, even fear, in those who remain.” [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel)\]