Reinvention

Go Ahead, Fire Me: Some Workers Welcome Losing Their Jobs

A tight labor market and changing work culture are giving employees who get laid off an unexpected feeling of relief.

Juliana Redden shows pictures from her trip to Guatemala. Juliana travelled to Guatemala after she was laid off from a major tech company.  

Photographer: Sarah Blesener/Bloomberg
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Employment status: laid off and loving it.

That’s the mood of a small but vocal group of employees caught in the job cuts roiling firms from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.