Kimberly Adams

I suppose now we should say kumbaya.

Zeddy looked at publicly reported data about more than a thousand tech companies.

Here's Zeddy's Jasmine Escalera.

It's bad enough for the workers left behind after one round of layoffs, with survivor's guilt and all.

But Vicky Salemi with job search site Monster says when you have multiple layoffs…

They're thinking, OK, wait a minute, am I next?

So there's more anxiety.

Usually there's more concern.

There's just more more stress in general.

And that has consequences for the business as well.

Sandra Sucher at Harvard Business School says 70 percent of companies that lay people off see a decline in employee morale in the first year.

Because it's hard to do your best work when you're worried the next round of layoffs is coming for you.

In Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams for Marketplace.

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I'm Kimberly Adams.

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The ongoing war with Iran is having all sorts of humanitarian and economic repercussions in the region and globally.

And while Iran has reportedly said ships not connected to the U.S.

or Israel can go ahead and go through the Strait of Hormuz, most international shippers just don't want to take that risk.

And as you've also probably heard, this trade route is crucial to global energy markets.