January is layoff season in 2024. Big Tech and big finance rang in the new year with fresh rounds of job cuts, with Google, Amazon, Unity, and BlackRock all letting go of hundreds of employees just since the year started. Then there’s Citigroup, which recorded a whopping 25% drop in revenue and announced plans to shed 20,000 jobs at a cost of $1 billion to the company. That’s left employees at similar companies sharking in their boots, worried that they could be next.
But one employee who was let go took action into her own hands—and she still doesn’t know if she was redundant or if she was fired.
