How Many Zoom Jobs Were Actually Useless?

How Many Zoom Jobs Were Actually Useless?
Figurines with smartphones and computers in front of the Twitter logo in an illustration on Nov. 28, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Twitter watchers were stunned on Feb. 26 when Elon Musk canned another 10 percent of the Twitter workforce. He has now fired 3 out of every 4 employees that worked there before he took over. Imagine a thriving business tossing out 75 percent of a staff of 7,500! That alone should indicate that something had gone very wrong in the hiring process.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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