What’s common to Google, Microsoft, Meta (Facebook), Amazon and Twitter? Well, apart from being some of the biggest technology companies in the world, they all recently fired a significant number of employees. In fact, across the

tech sector

, lakhs of competent, qualified workers have lost their jobs.

These were once the most coveted jobs in the world. These companies often topped the ‘best places to work’ surveys, offering cool offices, free lunches, high salaries and stock options. They gave people perks like ‘bring your pets to work’, work from anywhere, unlimited vacations and offsites in exotic locations. But how quickly things change. Now, even employees who worked in these companies for decades have been asked to leave. Back home too, jobs have been cut, and more are believed to be coming.

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