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A new Glassdoor report found that managers are blaming “overhiring” for layoffs—and employees are taking notice.

Managers are running out of ways to say you no longer have a job, but the way the bad news is delivered is more important than ever.

A lexicon to describe layoffs euphemistically became more common in the late 1980s and 1990s as job cuts were normalized, according to Sucher. Previously, layoffs were more rare, and mostly the result of a manufacturer closing its plant in a town.

Layoffs in January have left tens of thousands jobless, with 32,000 in tech industry alone

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Companies opt for euphemistic and vague synonyms, like “rightsizing” and “org changes”

It sends a message to all the remaining employees: You could be next.

If 2023 is “the year of efficiency,” what were the CEOs of Meta, Amazon, and others doing in all those previous years?

“That’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel,” said Wayne Cascio, an industrial psychologist and economist at the University of Colorado Denver, who pioneered the test-scoring system used by the department today. “They’re barely qualified to be able to get approved…You’re really handcuffing the department in so many ways.”

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