Layoffs

Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
22 hours ago AI Layoffs

A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes “because it plays better”; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago AI Layoffs

Meta Plans Sweeping Layoffs As AI Costs Mount (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago AI Layoffs

Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31 (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago AI Layoffs

With Manufacturing Poised for Recovery, Layoffs Will Turn Into New Hires (www.heritage.org)
16 days ago Layoffs Manufacturing

Long Before Tech CEOs Turned To Layoffs To Cover AI Expenses, There Was WorldCom (tech.slashdot.org)
21 days ago AI Layoffs

Sam Altman says there is some “AI washing”, where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside “real displacement by AI” of some jobs (gizmodo.com)
21 days ago AI Layoffs

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Jack Dorsey's Block as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and a push to use AI tools to improve productivity (www.wired.com)
24 days ago AI Layoffs

Despite 4 Years of Mass-Layoffs at Alphabet & Amazon, Headcount Rose in 2025, Nearly Flat with Peak, as Hiring Continued (wolfstreet.com)
2026-2-10 Amazon Layoffs Alphabet

Washington Post CEO steps down after sweeping layoffs (www.rt.com)
2026-2-9 Layoffs

Pinterest Sacks Workers For Creating Tool To Track Layoffs (slashdot.org)
2026-2-5 Layoffs

Pinterest fires two employees who it says “wrote custom scripts” that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-4 Layoffs

Is AI Really Taking Jobs? Or Are Employers Just 'AI-Washing' Normal Layoffs? (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-3 AI Layoffs

Unemployment Insurance Drops to Lowest since Sept. 2024, Layoffs Are Low, Show No Signs of Weak Labor Market (wolfstreet.com)
2026-1-30 Layoffs Unemployment Insurance

Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (restofworld.org)
2026-1-28 India AI Layoffs

Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees (slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Amazon Layoffs

Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday “Project Dawn” meeting about company efficiency (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon Layoffs

Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after “several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs” (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-26 Layoffs Decentralize

Layoffs hit Vimeo for the second time since September 2025, when it laid off 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for around $1.38B in November (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-22 Layoffs

Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most affected roles focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (x.com)
2026-1-19 VR Layoffs

Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Layoffs

Wall Street Has Stopped Rewarding 'Strategic' Layoffs (slashdot.org)
2025-12-26 Wall Street Layoffs

Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO amid a challenging period for Mozilla's for-profit arm with layoffs, restructuring, and its Google dependence (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-17 Google Layoffs Mozilla

Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-16 Europe Amazon Layoffs

Layoffs Show No Signs of a Weakening Labor Market (wolfstreet.com)
2025-12-12 Layoffs

Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-6 Layoffs Budget

Sources: Meta does not plan to abandon building the metaverse, and expects to shift the savings from the layoffs into investments in its AR glasses (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-5 Layoffs AR

Sources: Meta plans deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Layoffs Budget

Monarch Tractor Preps For Layoffs and Warns Employees It May 'Shut Down' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-21 Layoffs

Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-21 Layoffs

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