Are layoffs due to recession?

Is every company which is laying off is affected by recession?, or is it just using the opportunity(blaming recession) to cut down the work force which increased due to over hiring?

Being an investor in equity markets, i was aware of the fact that US market will crash as the free money by fed draws back. I obviously was not able to link this up with the funding dry-ness. I still expect a founder to be aware of these economic events. I am curious how could the management decide to go for hiring employees only to lay them off a year later. If you are a founder, would be happy to know the other side of the story.

When the market will stable , when this layoff period will go away ? Any thought 🤔

All of my feed is now filled with layoff posts from ex faang employees. The same feed was filled with posts showing off joining gift last year. What is happening. Why is it happening. Who is responsible for this. I am totally not sure. Will there be a 2008 like crash, this time because of overhyped tech sector ?

Why Tech Layoffs are Still Continuing ? How long will it take to recover from recession? Mostly businesses are out of India and IT engineers are in India due to which in India also layoffs are continuing so how to get rid off? Is AI playing major role in layoffs or its due to recession? As a support engineer what should be the next career path should take like DevOps , Development or Management etc.

I don't know why everyone is making a big deal out of layoffs. Even the ones who laid off are not that concerned than the ones who comment. Laid off employees literally get free money upwards of 10 lakhs in many cases of senior developers who are laid off from top tech startups. Companies pay severance equal to 3-6 months salary of laid off employees. Some even offer other benefits as well. I personally know a couple of Devs who got around ~9-10L in severance pay. So, yeah if there are layoffs happening in funded tech startups or leading tech companies, considering their pay range, laid off employees get handsome severance pay including employee benefits

That's it. That's the reason. No recession, no lack of profits. Till now, layoffs were a sign of a weak corporation and something shameful. A company doing layoffs meant they were on the verge of a collapse but now its socially acceptable. Instead of being ashamed, some companies are cleverly using the layoffs to portray themselves as the victim and as it gains more and more acceptability, more and more companies are using lay offs as cost cutting measures and jumping on the bandwagon before its too late.

Someone in ur team or someone u had good relationship (work wise) with gets laid off? Do u discontinue working as hard? Does ur team velocity decrease or increase as everyone does better for survival? Just wanna hear from folks who have gone through this and does employer not see any affect in work? (E.g. Twitter case)