Effective Immediately

a central hub for employers, employees, and people who've been recently laid off. we hope each of you can find helpful resources about handling or recovering from layoffs during a pandemic. why does this exist? we got laid off in early march 2020, just as america's (and to our eye, the tech industry's) wave of layoffs was building. our company asked us to stay another month to be an information conduit and to help our former colleagues-- also laid-off-- get connected to job opportunities. during that month, many more people were laid off and the spreadsheets, linkedin and twitter postings, articles, forms, lists, and more kept piling up. the signal to noise ratio was becoming unmanageable, data about who was hiring was becoming stale day by day. we don't know yet if that wave has crested, but we're still seeing layoff news every week. by early april, we decided the work we'd done to help our colleagues might be useful to other people after we finished. we also kept finding resource