Lots of lay-off convos going on... anyone ever heard of (and utilized) the “engineer your lay-off” approach authored by Fianancial Samurai? Curious on thoughts / results.

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I Got this scatterplot and in all the check ins I have received a good feedback. MY Team lead says this is due to low utilization(78%)
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