...the employee performance review system to clearly set up for a layoff on performance ranking basis soon. This is like the 5th round of layoffs using whatever as an excuse in a little over a year. Kind of sucks as the ranks have thinned, teams are under stress as workload has not changed, maybe even increased, and there are less people to do it. The new performance scale basically requires a bell curve scoring of all employees under a manager such that 10% at one end have to be ranked as underachieving and no more then 10% are top achievers. Makes HR's work easy as to who to let go while limiting exposure for high performance bonuses too. Tech work isn't the wide blue sky path to a secure life it once was.

but I guess that’s too much “woke”.

AI layoffs are just starting. The tariffs have added too much cost and risk to many businesses and they're canceling plans to expand and laying off people instead.