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Sean Hollister
January was the worst month for tech layoffs.

With nearly 100,000 employees pushed out into the cold, January was worse than December and November combined. That’s according to the TrueUp tracker; I know some people prefer Layoffs.fyi.

Why so many layoffs following record-breaking profits? I’ll let my colleague Liz tackle that.

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