What To Do When Layoffs Hit Your Company

A playbook for surviving 2026's layoffs

Welcome back to Path to Staff. Most weeks, I write about career growth. This week, we need to talk about something more pressing: layoffs.

We’re only a few weeks into 2026, but Big Tech already looks shaky. Meta laid off 1,500 people, many of them I’ve personally worked with. Amazon is reportedly cutting up to 30,000 jobs, and Microsoft is letting go of 22,000 folks this month.

If you’ve been impacted by layoffs or expect them, here’s my learnings from going through multiple layoff rounds at Meta.