THE CORPRENEUR BRIEF Intelligence for the executive who's building beyond the org chart. Issue #005 | Wednesday, June 4

Jun 04, 2026

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134,603 workers have lost their jobs so far in 2026.

That's not a headline. That's a running count, updated daily, pulled from public WARN filings and corporate announcements. 212 layoff events. 874 jobs gone every single day this year.

And here's what most people aren't saying out loud: the majority of those cuts are not happening at struggling companies.

Cisco just cut 4,000 people while posting record revenue. Meta is restructuring while spending $21 billion on AI infrastructure. These aren't companies in trouble. These are companies making strategic decisions, and the people caught in those decisions didn't see it coming because they were focused on performing, not positioning.

That's the trap most senior professionals are in right now.

You're delivering results. You're exceeding expectations. You're doing everything your employer asked — and none of that insulates you from a board decision, a budget cycle, or a reorg that eliminates your entire function on a Tuesday afternoon.

Performance doesn't protect you anymore. Positioning does.

The professionals who come out of this period ahead are not the ones who worked harder inside the org. They're the ones who built something outside it, while they still had income, access, and time to do it strategically.

That window doesn't stay open forever.

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Jay Britton

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