Some firings were whole teams that were working on projects that were going nowhere or losing money. Companies transferred a few employees they really wanted to keep and moved them to other teams. Some firings were recruiters and HR people no longer needed as most companies are on hiring freeze. Some firings were those related to sales that were fired due to decreased sales. And then there were firings across the board in multiple departments to get rid of positions not needed where workload can be offloaded to other existing employees.

WA state publishes the amount of employees fired in every company who live in WA. I was shocked at the number of tech employees fired that live in Puget Sound area - it was surprisingly low percentage, definitely less than 20%. So virtual or not virtual didn’t seem to make a difference.