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"lower salaries or where one person would be expected to do the work of 2-5 previously laid off folks"

so only $300k total comp and 20 hrs of work per week?



In this specific case, closer to $40,000 USD and 40-80 hours per week. These were QA roles at a game development studio in Europe.


QA roles have been decimated. I get the impression that increased adoption and trust of automated testing techniques have enabled companies to justify cutting their QA budgets. I've seen similar layoffs of entire QA teams even before the recent tech layoffs. And in those cases the QAs were never rehired.




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