{"id":74029,"date":"2023-02-09T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T07:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/?p=74029"},"modified":"2023-02-23T09:12:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T08:12:36","slug":"tech-layoffs-and-disillusionment-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/en\/2023\/02\/09\/tech-layoffs-and-disillusionment-in-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech layoffs and disillusionment in Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning’s\u00a0newsflash\u00a0was inspired by a tweet and refers to the recent Tech layoffs in Silicon Valley, no longer deemed\u00a0the greatest place to\u00a0work<\/a> in\u00a0Tech.<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>Other posts<\/a> tell stories of employees disappointed that they can no longer indulge in free pizza in the cafeteria before going to meetings in the “confetti room”. In short, it all sounds like a love story gone wrong. The main question emphasised by one of the\u00a0sources I read this morning: is coddling your employees a good idea?<\/i><\/p>\n

Tech layoffs and disillusionment in Silicon Valley<\/h2>\n
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Here’s how Midjourney, as always very”creative”,\u00a0sees Tech layoffs in Silicon Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tech layoffs in Silicon Valley: deja vu<\/h3>\n

First in the 1990s (the great IT crisis), then in the 2000s (the Internet bubble).<\/p>\n

These periods are engraved in my memory. No doubt the big IT company I worked for in the 90s was not as “cool” as Meta or Google, but we were fond of it and rightly so.<\/p>\n

We learned a lot over there, roamed the world and the work was creative and exciting. A whole new era of work was then invented. Certainly much more creative than selling CPCs for a search engine.<\/p>\n

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Tech layoffs: absolutely hilarious, here’s how Midjourney interprets “fired”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A sector of the future<\/h4>\n

I was caught off guard in those years and for good reason. As a newcomer to the world of IT, coming from the ill-fated household appliance industry, the future was bright. “This is the industry of the future,” I was told.<\/p>\n

And it was true, real-time computing changed the lives of all employees worldwide, not just a few. The same is probably true of the technologies developed in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I have seen all the big tech companies disappear: DEC, Control Data, Data General, ICL, Compaq and so on.<\/p>\n

Anticipation of the 2002 purge<\/h4>\n

In 2001-2 a new purge was on its way, but this time I wasn’t taken unawares. In a few months, the work of 4 years was kicked to the curb. A colleague came with a van to put the servers in the boot. A nuclear IT winter began.<\/p>\n

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A brief search for Silicon Valley layoffs in the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is no doubt that the approach to work in these modern tech companies and what we knew in the prehistoric times of the beginning of real-time computing have nothing in common.<\/p>\n

No entertainment nor treats<\/h4>\n

In those days, there was no entertainment, no candy, no confetti room, and even less TikTok to post videos of your workplace.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE SHE JUST GOT FIRED $GOOGL<\/a> $GOOG<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/xms1PSaRxe<\/a><\/p>\n

— GURGAVIN (@gurgavin) January 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n