Now imagine a company is like a school with different classes. in some schools, each class focuses on a specific subject, like math, scienc or art. If a subject isn't popular or doing well, the school can just stop offering that class and let the professors go…
but most cos aren't set up like that. instead they have teams that do specific jobs no matter what the product is, like a team for finances, hr, marketing, sales, legal, etc. If the company is bleeding money, they can't just cut a specific su-ky product and its team…
instead they might decide to cut a certain pctg of jobs across the entire company. this means people from all the different departments might lose their jobs, not just those working on the underperforming products.
sometimes the people who get laid off might be those who didn’t get along with the higher-ups or who were seen as troublemakers - people with issues, even if they were doing their job well. This always makes the cut feel really unfair to the employees.
the way a company is organized can make a large difference in how they handle cuts... in a more traditional setup layoffs can seem random and based on who the mgrs like or don't like, rather than on actual performance… this happens all the time nowadays…