Comment by fearmerchant

Yeah, I survived several layoff rounds at a company and my workload increased significantly. At first it was fine, even better in some ways to have more responsibility. Then the subsequent layoffs added too much, and we lost a lot of people with institutional knowledge, so I was being handed work with no one to talk to when I had questions.

tl:dr One round of layoffs isn't bad if you're staying, but subsequent rounds can make you miserable.