On: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

[danny_taco]

I'm surprised it took this long for LinkedIn to do layoffs. The amount of recruiters looking for candidates, tech companies hiring, etc. has gone down since the beginning of the year. As such, the income from LinkedIn that is tied to job postings has decreased. In order to continue looking good on paper they have decided then to layoff employees to cut costs.

The same thing has happened at other companies that make money from job postings.

[jldugger → danny_taco]

Plus, 90 percent of what recruiters do on LinkedIn is basically already automated by LLMs.

[__loam → jldugger]

God please no. I already have to yell talk to a human to get my problem solved with support phone calls. I really would rather not get spammed by AI bullshit. If you're trying recruit me, at least have the respect for my time to get a human to talk to me.

[jldugger → __loam]

You are already being spammed by AI. You think those well written followups to your non-response were handcrafted?

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[selectout → danny_taco]

This isn't the first round of layoffs there

[switch007 → selectout]

4% in May this year according to https://layoffs.fyi/

[kuchenbecker → switch007]

May was mostly limited: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/tech/linkedin-layoffs-exit-ch...