Using that logic you can only have restful APIs if your application is useless and data never changes (which is fine for me, I hate debates about restfulness)

You don't take an active project. You take a maintenance job on a product which is approaching its death in some big corporation. Nobody cares about you, you might have to fix some bugs, but otherwise there is no pressure. If you make a mistake and workload in one of those picks up, you leave, but even if you're a total dead weight it's going to take some months before you are fired.

I mean what are you expecting when applying to a software house or a staffing agency?

Prostitutes, yacht parties, and a Macbook.

Should have joined crypto startups.

...and I missed it, again... dammit

My company is hiring junior engineers, but take into account that:

- the positions are filled quicker than any other position due to the number of applicants

- so many applicants do have interesting projects or internships that people whose CV show neither are never really under any serious consideration

You assume that this many people actually did something useful instead of looking nice on paper for VC. They have 40m in revenue, a lot of it had to be useless.

Keep in mind that it might be (or might not, impossible to predict) a preemptive decision due to uncertainty, not necessarily due to actual changes they see. A company I worked at when COVID started also had a hiring freeze, but had the best result in years during 2020-2021 due to the market situation.

Ultimately all companies are linked to a market of some sort which in the end can see growth or shrinkage if a crisis comes, you can't do anything about it.

This is what I really expect. Just like the oil companies that jacked prices up and then claimed record profits lol.

Ultimately I think this might be an around-the-block way to cut fat, get rid of remote workers, and a desperate attempt to try and take control of the job market again.

If the big companies claim the sky is falling and start laying people off and cutting costs everywhere, then everyone else is going to follow.

The evidence will be in earnings reports later on. If a company's executive management is crying wolf and then reporting record profits, well.........

Yeah, you have to wonder how many people who were let go in Q1 2020 because of lockdown uncertainty were let go needlessly based on how tech rebounding in the following months.

It's on you to prove the claim. Post the full text of studies.

I don't have access to the study, but wasn't it the one where:

- the author was the only person studied

- the difference wasn't that big

?

That's the one. Due to its small size, it's more indicative of an effect - it would be interesting to see if it could be replicated. There's some bike cams (Garmin?) that include a radar to measure closeness of vehicles passing, so it would be relatively easy to conduct a much larger scale.

It should not be a reasonable basis for denying their employees right to wear PPE.

It's worse, they are not contractors but employees. The company should have a book thrown at them.