The last big layoff I was adjacent to, my team lost a couple person-months of productivity in the aftermath. We literally accounted for it in sprint planning, knowing people's capacity was going to be less due to the emotional stress of it all. Layoffs have *so many* negative knock-on effects.
Robin-Yann StormAs someone who has going through multiple big company layoffs over my career (That’s the game industry for you!), I can tell you that there isn’t much work happening at the companies that had the layoffs. For sake of velocity and quality, IC layoffs are the opposite of what you need.