13 percent

Why are so many companies laying off exactly this many workers? Also, 7 other things worth knowing today.

I don't like writing about layoffs; not for the subject in general, and not for the people affected.

But in the latest rounds of layoffs at big tech companies across, a single, odd, specific thing keeps coming up over and over and over. It's that one company after another seems to lay off almost the exact same percentage of its workforce: 13 percent, giv…