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Those are typically the people that get let go because management thinks they're overpaid and wasting time on trivial things like finding out why something is taking a half second longer than normal.
A good line manager will fight tooth and nail to keep those people when upper management demands layoffs. But not every line manager is a good manager. Few are.
I just went through this at my work and upper management didn't consult anyone before picking and choosing who got let go. They of course used their own out-of‐touch metrics which heavily favored toward laying off the people who'd been there the longest since, in their eyes, Employee A & B in job role X are completely equivalent in knowledge and experience even though one has only done it one year while the other has done it for 30 years. "Why are we paying this guy so much more?" says their spreadsheet.