I thought the U.S. economy was supposed to get better after news of Trump getting elected. Why are all these layoffs (Meta, Microsoft) in Tech happening?!? 😭😭😭

Because Trump is a felon and a con-artist cult leader.

Because the economy NEVER gets better with “conservatives” in control of anything.

They just scream it a lot and people foolishly believe it.

Numbers don’t lie. Just look up economic performance the last 60 years.

Because everything Trump touches dies?

Trump/Elon has signaled they’re willing to expand H1B so they’re probably making room for them, meta is pushing for more AI and FAANG also does stack ranking as standard practice.

The people who run these companies arent the types of morons who think tariffs are paid by foreign countries, so they're not under the impression the economy will do better under trump. They have realistic outlooks.

Trump lied.

Love the Trump hate. Might have some merit if the Dems controlled one of: white house, Senate, house, Supreme Court, majority of state legislatures, majority of governorships. They don't. All they run on is abortion and giving people free stuff like paying off their student loans.

The shift in Hispanic and black males is a kamikaze to the deck of the Democrat party. And layoffs in tech? Like the sun rising in the east

Pres Trump has not been inaugurated yet.
That will happen this Monday.
As for a convicted felon. This was blatant lawfare .
By the rules they played with ( the judges and ag)
Anyone they wanted to could be convicted.
Polosi famously said in NY you could convict a ham sandwich.
Time to play by the rules now. You will see the accusers be the accused.

Part of economic growth is a focus on efficiency and productivity. A lot of companies will be shedding dead weight in the next few years. Unfortunately, due to the tech bubble that came with covid a lot of companies had hired more people than they actually need. So many “extra” employees actually don’t add to the revenue of these companies. That’s why the lay-offs have not affected platform quality or service offering

I shouldn’t be surprised how liberal a tech post would be but the hypocrisy of the economy only did well under Trump because of Obama is crazy. Small government, deregulation, and tax cuts help the economy, which seemingly is the opposite of the Democrats position.

That's a joke right? Literally NONE of his policies are good for the economy.

Should never listen and trust the dangerous person please.

They only care about tax cuts to billionaire and doesn’t bother to give better life to American citizens and Corporate find the ways to do cuts to avoid loss due to new sales taxes such as tariff which would lead to more inflation and groceries prices will be sky rocketing.

Feels sad that even educated Americans don’t understand which leaders are better in administration since last 50 years

Obama and Biden saved America and improved the economy and don’t understand, again in 2028 some one has to come save again from recession which is eminently in 2028

Because he literally promised to make everything in the US more expensive. And Musk spent billions of dollars to be allowed to hire foreign slaves for US jobs. I have been in IT for twenty years and the foreign visa has always been a way to get cheap labor

Also, millions of dumb as hell people voted for Trump hoping they would make more money. And then they were very surprised that the president who craps his pants twice a day screwed american workers. And they voted for him twice

We all hope that you get what you voted for. Everyone who voted against him works for and with people that know what loyalty is about. The places we work didn't lay anyone off

It’s getting better for eskortz. My fee went up for ALL of my unhappily married trump voters and I got NO complaints 🤷🏽‍♀️

Layoffs usually improve a company’s bottom line and signal to the world that they’re prioritizing that. The stock goes up. Many of these FAANG companies overhired in recent years and are bloated with unqualified resources, so now they’re “right-sizing.”

Unfortunately these things don't happen over night. I'm hoping that by mid-year we will begin some improvements.

The economy IS getting better, for Musk, Zuckerberg, Allen, etc...

Why would you think that? the economic proposals in Trump's program are definitely leading towards it. All in all, they will only benefit some few billionaires but it will harm thousands of workers, that's just so evident

US economy getting better is just code word for US billionaires getting richer. And they get richer by cutting cost and human workers are one of those.

I don't know why anyone would think that would be the case. You​ can expect tariffs & declining worker protections, plus increased benefits for corporations and the wealthy will make everything worse.

They're clearing the decks for all the cheap H1B workers. Trump is the billionaires president. All his policies will work to make the billionaires richer. Everyone thought the UK people voting for Brexit was the stupidest act of self sabotage a country ever inflicted on itself. Well America called "hold my beer..." And quite literally Trumped us. Turkeys voting for Christmas.

Tech is going to take a hard swing to the right to appease President Musk and First Lady Trump. They're just doing the pre-prep by laying off the "lowest performers" which means anyone not in line with the incoming regime.

I know folks that have been laid off, and they have literally carried those companies nearly on their own. But they don't go along with fascism, so they're getting ousted.