How were companies in Midwest affected during last recession compared to tech hubs? Were they insulated and were there less layoffs?

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🙄 tired of people acting like the Midwest is some provincial backwater

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Chicago is in the midwest, and also a tech hub.

Not going to engage you on this. All depends on what market segments and industries, but its in bad taste to categorize companies/regions so broadly like that.

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This question is a joke, right? Recession was a disaster in the midwest. We had to bail out GM and Chrysler. Unemployment was like 13-18%.

Everyone - I studied at a University in Midwest. I don't hate the Midwest. I was just curious. Anyway, there's no option to delete this post now, so please ignore it.

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Just a joke, take it as a joke-
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Recently Better (dot) com's employees were fired from the job.
If you are some HR/Senior management personnel and hiring them.
You should reconsider your decision as they will make your organisation BETTER. :-)

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