Ask HN: How are the current layoffs affecting non-US developers?
That&#x27;s so weird that layoffs have primarily been in the US, the most expensive labor market. It&#x27;s almost like the layoffs aren&#x27;t really out of any necessity in most cases but are just an attack on labor and labor costs.<p>That aside, it is worth noting that a lot of other countries make it a lot more difficult to lay people off and when you do there are more protections, greater notice periods and so on. So it may just be that layoffs are happening overseas and we haven&#x27;t really heard about them yet.<p>Also, most non-US offices of big tech companies tend to e a lot smaller. London is a bit of an outlier.