As Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Stripe, Shopify, Lyft, Netflix, and Microsoft lay off workers, let it serve as a reminder that free snacks, beer kegs, and ping pong tables are not real perks.

Do you know what is? Being part of a union that will defend you.

@rbreich My expectation re Mr Musk saying "people have got to work longer hours" is that a trade union should review what he is proposing.

A trade union must be part of a workflow every company should include if there is a change in employees' terms and conditions of employment.

Many companies care about money not people anyway. Look after number 1. Always.