<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giobox</author><text>A pattern I&amp;#x27;ve observed at international companies who have done multiple layoffs in the past 12 months is that the European offices are rarely hit hard in wave 1 due to the additional statutory protections in many European countries.&lt;p&gt;However, that seems to fire the starting gun on the preparations needed to then carry out layoffs that require longer statutory processes in Europe, which then get included in the second or future wave of layoffs. Meta for example appeared to follow this pattern, and I&amp;#x27;ve heard as much from people with direct knowledge of events.&lt;p&gt;This is Unity&amp;#x27;s third round of layoffs this year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Probably not the main Copenhagen office as I expect Danish employee protection rights to be off the chart.</text></item><item><author>moosedev</author><text>The second half of the news, not mentioned in TFA, is that they are going to close around half of their offices worldwide &amp;quot;in the coming years&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;unity-lays-off-hundreds-more-closing-half-of-offices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;unity-lays-off-hundreds-more-c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;No info on which offices might be at risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/unity-layoffs-company-to-cut-600-employees-or-8percent-of-its-workforce.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtzet</author><text>Off the charts? Compared to completely at will maybe. You generally have to pay 3 months severance + 1 month per 3 years of employment for a maximum of 6 months severance after 9 years of employment. That&amp;#x27;s it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Probably not the main Copenhagen office as I expect Danish employee protection rights to be off the chart.</text></item><item><author>moosedev</author><text>The second half of the news, not mentioned in TFA, is that they are going to close around half of their offices worldwide &amp;quot;in the coming years&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;unity-lays-off-hundreds-more-closing-half-of-offices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;unity-lays-off-hundreds-more-c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;No info on which offices might be at risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/unity-layoffs-company-to-cut-600-employees-or-8percent-of-its-workforce.html</url></story>