Last week, Kenji was among the more than 4,000 employees who were laid off at Block.
And this wasn’t just your run-of-the-mill restructuring. Block was culling nearly half its workforce.
The most ominous line in Block CEO Jack Dorsey’s letter came toward the finish: “Within the next year,” he wrote, “I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and create similar structural alters.”
If Dorsey is right, white-collar professionals are facing a stark future — one that Kenji had the misfortune of entering first.
The day after his layoff, Kenji spoke with Business Insider‘s Aki Ito on the condition that Ito doesn’t apply his real name to avoid jeopardizing his future job prospects. Ito expected him to be angry or at least bewildered. Instead, he was almost Zen-like in his reflections, clear-eyed and calm.
Read Ito’s conversation with Kenji on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/eYFd7Ey8
(Credit: Getty Images; Business Insider)
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