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 1. Economy
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 2. Jobs

Why Companies Are No Longer Hanging On to Employees

The practice of 'labor hoarding'--holding on to employees for fear of
not being able to get them back later--has reached its end

By

Justin Lahart

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The Amazon headquarters in Seattle with a person walking past the
Spheres, a greenhouse-like structure.An Amazon campus in Seattle. The
company recently announced a layoff of 14,000 corporate workers. 
David Ryder/Bloomberg News

Corporate America has ended its firing freeze. 

Companies scrambled for years after the pandemic to build back their
workforces, learning a simple lesson along the way: Keep the workers
you've got, because if you lose them you will have a hard time
getting them back.

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