https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/12/22/bay-area-job-gain-tech-covid-layoff-google-economy-hotel-november/

The Bay Area added thousands of jobs in November, an upswing fueled by big job gains in the South Bay that produced a welcome respite from recent months of employment losses for the nine-county region.

The employment gains in the Bay Area suggested that the region has been able to ward off — for now — at least some of the effects of relentless layoffs in the tech industry that began at the start of 2022 and that worsened in 2023.