Al Jazeera has called 2023 “the year of the layoffs.” As the news organization pointed out recently, it started badly in 2023, when Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) cut 10% of its global staff. CEO Marc Benioff might be a big believer in stakeholder capitalism, but 2023 proved that even he wouldn’t stand for an excessive work force. Perhaps the problem was that the U.S. created too many jobs in 2022. Approximately 4.5 million were added, the second-highest in 40 years. An increase like that may have been the deciding ...