Delivering Unpleasant News

Roger Lee, the creator of Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks tech layoffs, has cataloged nearly 450,000 tech layoffs in a public spreadsheet since starting the site as a side project at the start of the pandemic. Lee believes that talking openly about layoffs in the industry he loves is healthy and that the reduced stigma has the potential to be really positive. Layoffs.fyi is both a symptom and a cause of a cultural shift toward transparency about layoffs in tech. Lee's site has become a meaningful resource for recruiters and workers, and media organizations often cite it as a source for the latest tech layoff figures.