‘What's the C-suite's play here?’: Company lets go of 40+ high-performing employees, then immediately posts 40+ better-paying jobs on a job board, leaving employees dumbfounded

Mass layoffs have become far too common, not just in the tech space but in every field overall. That's why when the employee who posted this next story falls victim to their own company laying off over 40 employees, they're not surprised—just confused. Why? Their company immediately posts the positions they terminated on a job board, just with higher salaries.

If you've ever experienced a layoff, it's not enjoyable (obviously). An ungodly number of questions repeat themselves in your head, most of which have to do with what you could've done better, what you could've said to save yourself, and why you spent so much money on random things when you should've been building your savings account. This employee, however, is trying to figure out their upper management's gameplay when they lay off over 40 employees, then repost those job openings with a higher pay rate. Seems a bit counterintuitive, no?

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