Perhaps during its peek the hi-tech industry was the most sought after but that is no longer the case. For years now hi-tech companies’ employees have gone about their jobs on eggshells, anticipating to be laid off at any given moment. Now with the economy in the dumps, the situation has gotten even worse. It was no secret that Yahoo has been in trouble for a while now, but still, many will be surprised to learn that they plan on cutting ten percent of their workforce, which are more than fifteen hundred employees.