• Google is laying off more employees

    Google is laying off more employees and restructuring some teams.Several teams across Google's finance and real estate units have been affected, according to two current employees, who said staff had been informed of the cuts this week. One said that the affected teams in finance include Google's Treasury, Business Services, and Revenue Cash Operations teams.It's unclear if other parts of the company are affected or how many roles have been cut. One current employee said the changes were "pretty...

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    Tesla is reportedly laying off over 10 percent of its employees

    A new report says Tesla has sent a memo to employees stating it plans to lay off over 10 percent of its total global workforce. The electric car maker has seen its sales go down in recent months.

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    Nike to lay off 740 employees at its world headquarters in Beaverton

    In February, Nike announced it would cut 2% of its global workforce in a restructuring, but did not indicate how many of the cuts would be local.

    • KEYE

    Tesla lays off 10% of employees after underwhelming sales this year

    Tesla, Austin's largest private employer, is reportedly laying off a tenth of its workforce potentially dealing a blow to Austin's economy after early figures i

  • Opinion: California law requires police to fix these bad policies. So why haven't they?

    Dozens of people across California have been wrongly convicted of crimes largely because of law enforcement officers’ flawed handling of eyewitness evidence. Courts have found instances of eyewitnesses feeling pressured to make an identification from a lineup even when the true culprit wasn’t present; making shaky identifications that were ultimately presented at trial as smoking-gun evidence; and choosing from lineups of photos in which some bore no resemblance to their description of the...

  • Google Laying Off Unspecified Number of Employees Amid Shifting Priorities

    Google is laying off an unspecified number of employees and shifting some roles to other countries as part of a continuing effort to cut costs. The employees will be able to apply for other roles at the company and some of the impacted roles will move to hubs in India, Chicago, Atlanta and Dublin, a Google […]

  • Take-Two lays off 5% of employees, scraps in-development games

    Take-Two Interactive joins the list of companies laying off employees as it undertakes cost-reduction measures, including canceling projects.

  • Sikorsky plans to lay off employees after cancellation of US Army program

    Sikorsky plans on laying off workers due to the U.S. Army’s recent decision to cancel the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program, a spokesperson said. The layoffs will impact workers in the Sikorsky business segment. A spokesperson told NBC Connecticut that amounts to less than 1% of parent company Lockheed Martin’s workforce. “We intend to retain as many roles as possible

  • Disney Lays Off Marvel Employees as Wokeness Hits Its Bottom Line

    Disney's been in a magical world of trouble over the last several years, ever since the company decided to pick a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the culture war and go all-in on diversity, equity, and inclusion as part of its core programming at the expense of its longtime customers, traditional American families. New reports show that Bob Iger and the board are feeling the heat, especially regarding their costly Marvel and Star Wars content.

  • Tesla laying off over 3,300 employees in CA with many in Bay Area

    More than 1,400 of the laid off Tesla employees work at the Fremont factory and several dozen work in Palo Alto.

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    Tesla lays off more than 3,300 California workers, mostly in Bay Area

    Tesla’s massive, companywide layoff round is set to slam California, with 3,332 workers across four cities losing their jobs in June. The Elon Musk-led automaker revealed the timing and scope of the layoffs in WARN filings with California on Monday; such documentation is required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act in the event of mass layoffs. Tesla’s cuts are hitting its Fremont locations hardest, with 2,267 layoffs across a dozen job sites. More than 1,400 of them are...

  • 28 Google employees fired after protests at offices in California, New York

    The protest was organized by the “No Tech for Apartheid” campaign, which claims that Google and Amazon are leading “the world’s first AI powered genocide” by allowing Israel to access its technology, organizers said.