from the headquarters of Amazon to the offices of Microsoft for tech workers. 2023 is off to *** rocky start. Every technology company that we have heard of whether its sales force, whether it's DACA signed, whether it's Shopify in Canada, they are all, you know, it's the same story. That story is one of the sector that expanded too far too fast. But as higher interest rates cool demand companies have been forced to scale back. So *** lot of them are reevaluating, reevaluating their business line, evaluating their investments and also reevaluating kind of the high labor costs that they've accumulated. Smaller Canadian players are also trimming headcounts Hood sweet and benefit the laid off workers, e commerce firm Lightspeed and online car seller clutch slashed staff clear co and think if it cut positions too, that's *** total of around 800 jobs this week alone. But some say Canada's tech sector is resilient. I think we've seen elements of this in 2001, 2002, I think we've seen it in 4009. And in all of those times we've seen, you know, we've seen great companies come out of them. So what will you do if you were Meanwhile, the labor market is extremely tight with some companies still struggling to find talent. Here's *** quick example of software firm Docebo has dozens of jobs to fill even with the layoff climate that we're seeing. Um, it's always competitive. The supply is too short for the demand. Oh, I've heard good things about these guys. So Evelyn wants is hopeful despite getting *** pink slip from her insurance tech firm right before the holidays, I would say it was disappointing. There was, we were so excited about the next year, but she's been through this cycle before. I know it always feels kind of like this shock when you have *** layoff where there's *** change, but I'm *** silver lining kind of person and she's confident her next gig is just *** click away. Misha Patel CBC News Toronto.