Deviled Eggs, LinkedIn Layoffs & Indeed's Monopoly

About this episode

The episode discusses the chaotic state of the job market amidst tech layoffs and corporate growth, featuring humor and insights from the hosts and their guest.

What happens when HR tech giants crush earnings while the rest of the industry faces massive layoffs? In this special episode of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, Joel Cheesman is joined by guest co-host J.T. O'Donnell to deliver a dose of optimistic realism on the chaotic state of the 2026 job market. Before diving into the heavy-hitting industry news, the duo kicks things off with plenty of humor, swapping banter over deviled egg recipes, Memorial Day cookout plans, upcoming European travel, and why Southwest Airlines is making headlines with a strict new ban on humanoid robots. They also share a quick streaming recommendation for Apple TV's Your Friends and Neighbors and give a nod to the Crime Junkies podcast before getting down to business.The core of the episode spotlights a deeply divided job market where massive tech layoffs collide with explosive corporate growth. Joel and J.T. break down the staggering down-sizing trends hitting Meta and LinkedIn, contrasting those cuts with the massive, expectation-shattering earnings report just released by Recruit Holdings, the parent company of Indeed and Glassdoor. J.T. lends her expertise to LinkedIn’s aggressive new strategy to launch…

People in this episode

Host: Joel Cheesman

Guest: J.T. O'Donnell

Topics covered

• job market
• HR tech
• layoffs
• corporate growth
• automation
• artificial intelligence

Keywords

• job market
• layoffs
• LinkedIn
• Indeed
• automation
• artificial intelligence
• HR tech
• corporate growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, LinkedIn, Recruit Holdings, Indeed, Glassdoor

Products: Apple TV, Alexa

Books & works: Your Friends and Neighbors, Crime Junkies

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