4 months seems on the short side to me. I'd expect even 6 months to be well within the normal range for things to start to feel generally normal after losing over 1 in 6 workers.
Oh this is about the impact on the company. For some reason I clicked on this thinking it would be about the impact on the people layed off and was looking for another story where The Onion writes itself.
The results were lower than expected. So he needs to blame something. Taking a recent thing that is transient and could plausibly be related is a great choice - in terms of the narrative to investors. Not sure there is particularly informative here as to the actual impacts on the organization...
It’s not surprising that CEOs are the last to learn of these impacts because they tend amongst the people at any big company who least understands how it works in my experience. And, like you can see here, once your CEO becomes just an agent of the short-term stock price you are doomed at doing anything other than enshittifying your product until the company eventually dies.
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