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# Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You
- URL: https://werd.io/macroeconomic-changes-have-made-it-impossible-for-me-to-want/
- Published: 2023-01-25T02:42:20.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-25T02:42:20.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“There’s no easy way to say this: I have made the difficult decision to lay off over six thousand of you. In the past two years, we have achieved huge wins together. But unfortunately, the macroeconomic environment has shifted in ways none of us could have foreseen, from an economy in which I did feel like paying you, to one in which I’d rather not.” [#Business](https://werd.io/tag/Business)

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