Here's why more waves are coming, and un-avoidable. On an average, during 2007-08 recession, consulting companies had to let go 10-25% of their staff. look at the curve, it could be easily 15-40%

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These are US #s?

Canada unemployment is around those % too

The drop in Canada wasn’t as high in 2007 as the US, but still agree this is just the beginning of more waves

The drop in 2020 in Canada is similar to US.

Still very unclear. Let’s see

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