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What a layoff is like (for both parties) | Learn English phrasal verb 'bulk up'

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This is a leaderboard of the companies laying off the most workers. Google has 12,000 employees and Amazon 18,000. Even smaller, high-growth companies are doing it. SAP, Netflix, Vimeo, Twitter, IBM, they're all doing it. If you don't count the pandemic, this is the first big wave of corporate layoffs in a long time.

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