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A lot of people are being let go because they’re not very good at their jobs.

A lot of people are being let go because they’re great at their jobs but their employers have no idea what they do.

A lot of people are being laid off because employers are trying to preserve profits at a time they’re worried that demand will be cratering.

A lot of… you get the idea the list of reasons is infinite

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How good you are at your job is by far the smallest factor out of the 3 you listed.

A lot of people I saw being let go at my company weren't very good at their jobs - either because they were not capable or because they were not willing to do a lot of work - and leadership took the opportunity, in their eyes, to get rid of them. I'm not saying it was the biggest factor, but I wouldn't say it was "by far the smallest" based on my observations.

Agreed. I saw lots of really really questionable people not get laid off. It seemed to depend much more on business unit than job performance. Though once you are already in a business unit that is being cut, maybe it is performance related, not sure.

This exactly I want to discuss this issue: Neopotism

I always think "the number of reasons is infinite" is very snarky. I think he probably wants to extract some stats out of the answers. Maybe some reasons are more common than others. It's not a bad question.

I want to discuss the issue of neopotism in layoffs.

Then why didn't you start with that in your post?

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