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Bumble plans to cut 30% of its workforce, or about 240 roles, and invest the ~$40M saved annually into new product and tech development; BMBL rises 20% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/bumble-layoffs.html

Bumble jumps 26% as dating company plans to axe 30% of workforce
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, returned to the role earlier this year.

The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson says the magazine is profitable, with 1.3M subscribers paying an average of $80 annually; 500,000 of those pay $90 for print (Brian Lowry/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/the-atlantic-hiring-spr…

The Atlantic Envy: What Does It Know That Other Publications Don’t?
The magazine’s hiring spree has gobbled up writers, many from the Washington Post, in an expansion its top brass say is sustainable.

In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the "enigma" of layoffs while "Microsoft is thriving", saying the transition into the AI era "might feel messy at times" (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/in-new-m…

GSA walks back mass layoffs of its federal buildings workforce
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/09/gsa-walks-back-mass-layoffs-of-its-federal-buildings-workforce/

Sources: Paramount layoffs could affect 2,000 to 3,000 employees and are expected by early November; Paramount had 18,600 employees globally as of December 2024 (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramoun…

Paramount Layoffs: Thousands of Job Cuts Expects by Early November
Paramount will enact steep layoffs by early November after closing its merger with Skydance.

John Deere has been hit hard by Donald Trump’s tariffs. The farm equipment manufacturer and industry bellwether just announced ⭐️mass layoffs affecting more than 200 workers at three Midwestern plants.
The company is set to fire 115 employees at a facility in East Moline, Illinois, later this month, according to the Des Moines Register.
Next month, 52 workers at a facility in Moline, Illinois, and 71 employees at a facility in Waterloo, Iowa, will also reportedly be terminated

In Wake of Trump Tariffs, John Deere Announces Mass Layoffs
More than 200 workers will be affected.

#AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI.
For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.
Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.

Wisconsin Public Radio announces layoffs and ends four shows, citing funding pressure; report: 15 people were cut and WPR won't be filling several vacancies (Mike Janssen/Current)
https://current.org/2025/06/wisconsin-public-radi…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday it is
eliminating its research and development arm
and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
One union leader said the moves “will devastate public health in our country”.
https://www.

Microsoft layoffs of even long-time industry vets signal video game industry brain drain #gaming

Microsoft Layoffs Signal Video Game Industry Brain Drain - Aftermath
Multiple industry veterans have left Xbox in the wake of layoffs

Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to nearly 10,000 job losses, Ontario Public Service Employees Union says it's 'one of the largest mass layoffs in Ontario's history'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-college-layoffs-1.7581037

US State Department fires Russia and Ukraine analysts in recent layoffs, NYT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/us-state-department-fires-russia.html

Fortune laid off its European editorial team, including Executive Editor Alex Wood Morton; the layoffs took place before its 10% global workforce cut on July 21 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/fortune-…

Fortune Europe editorial team made redundant but new roles being created
The London-based editorial team focused on Europe set up by Fortune last year has been made redundant amid a strategy pivot.

Game Pass is specifically designed for enshittification (obviously). https://www.ign.com/articles/in-the-wake-of-xbox-layoffs-founder-of-dishonored-and-prey-dev-arkane-slams-game-pas…

The amount of self-harm in the US is amazing., geopolitical opponents are grabbing some extra popcorn. 🍿
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/state-department-layoffs-00449590

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

Plagued by Parts Shortage and EV Demand Uncertainty, GM Prepares for Layoffs
https://gizmodo.com/gm-prepares-for-layoffs-2000658946

How Seattle, transformed into a tech hub by Amazon and Microsoft's explosive growth, is grappling with the companies' layoffs affecting local economy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/seattle-tech-amazo…

Generating code via an LLM prompt at breakneck speed can, predictably, lead to less-than-stellar work.
Now, in an ironic twist, it seems that, having dispensed with more skilled coders for the cheap effectiveness of a chatbot-aided code monkey,
companies are having to hire additional contractors to fix the AI’s screw-ups.

After AI Led to Layoffs, Coders Are Being Hired to Fix 'Vibe-Coded' Screwups
Fire human, use AI, fire AI, hire human.

Just because 1000 jobs were cut doesn't mean 1000 people got fired. there were never tech-layoffs. they were all soham parekh.

Most of the largest tech corporations have done layoffs related to AI (aka “AI layoffs”).
I have read Satya Nadela’s message. I don’t know if other CEOs have published similar messages
I do not understand the connection though. 1) These companies had good financial results lately; 2) The people being laid off are not replaced by AI; 3) The layoffs won’t help further AI capex investments in any significant way.
What is it then?

Report: Rolling Stone has laid off some staff, including executive digital director Lisa Tozzi, chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall, and copy chief Steve Pearl (Ross A. Lincoln/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/rolling-stone-hit-with-layoffs-amid-on…

Rolling Stone Hit With Layoffs Amid Ongoing Staff Reductions at Penske
Executive digital director Lisa Tozzi, chief television critic Alan Sepinwall and copy chief Steven Pearl are among those let go

💔 Paladins: Champions of the Realm 💔
#NeverForgetOB64
#Paladins #Steam #Gaming

Memo: Crunchyroll is undergoing layoffs as part of a restructuring to shift resources toward high-growth markets outside the US, like India, Brazil, and Mexico (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/crunchyroll-layoffs-restructur…

Crunchyroll Layoffs: Anime Service Restructures for International Growth
Sony's Crunchyroll is laying off a number of employees as part of a restructuring to shift resources toward higher-growth markets outside the U.S.

Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-annotators-2025-9

Musk's xAI just laid off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok
XAI laid off at least 500 of the workers on its data annotation team on Friday night.

The State Department formally notified employees on Thursday that it was about to begin layoffs
as part of a consolidation plan that department officials say will reduce bureaucratic bloat
but that critics call a shortsighted blow to American diplomacy.
In an internal message sent to State Department workers on Thursday, Michael J. Rigas, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, said
the department would “soon” begin notifying U.S. employees who are…

State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan to downsize a “bloated” department had been on hold after a court ruling.

Sources: 18 employees at Nexstar-owned The Hill were either laid off or accepted buyout offers this week; six were editorial staffers represented by the CWA (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/09/nexstar-the-hill-layoffs/

Nexstar-owned The Hill issues pink slips
Nexstar has issued pink slips and offered buyouts to more than a dozen journalists at its political affairs publication The Hill.

After turning on both users and advertisers, tech companies only had one more place to go: employees. Individual productivity (AI-powered or otherwise) will not save you, because the issue is not performance.
In return, employees rightly stopped caring.
But unless you care, you can't do good design.
https://

Fear vs Play
Fear is choking out thoughtfulness in tech, and it can't be replaced with "more productivity" — because productivity is not what motivates corporate layoffs.

Any CEO (especially those that are Billionaires) should be seen as failures if they have to do layoffs.
You fucked up. You're supposed to be the smart one, able to run things properly, but you made a mistake (or many) along the way, and you make others pay for it by destroying their livelihood.
CEO need to be made to pay for their mistakes.

@… whew, my brain is thinking about widespread layoffs but *yes*

Google's security for Android is getting worse. They recently moved from monthly security updates to quarterly. Layoffs have slowed releases as well. Atop that, there are some easy fixes that they're just ignoring. There are only two secure mobile OSes: GrapheneOS and (secondarily) iOS.
https://grapheneos.social/@Gr…

The IRS is rescinding layoffs at its civil rights office, an early target in its plans to slash its total headcount.
IRS Commissioner Billy Long, in a memo obtained by Federal News Network, told employees in the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance that the agency is “reversing” reduction-in-force notices they received in April.

IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts
The IRS sent RIF notices to nearly 80% of staff at the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, but kept layoffs on hold after a recent Supreme Court ruling.

IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/08/irs-rescinds-layoffs-at-civil-rights-office-an-early-target-of-workforce-cuts/

Bay Area public radio station KQED says it is laying off 45 people and 12 are taking voluntary buyouts, a 15% staff cut; 10 vacant positions will go unfilled (Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-s…

KQED to Slash Workforce by 15%, Cutting Dozens of Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
The Bay Area media nonprofit is laying off staff for the third time in five years. It comes as the Trump administration aims to cut off federal funding for public media.

SoftBank's Vision Fund plans layoffs; sources say ~20% of staff will be impacted as SoftBank shifts resources to Masayoshi Son's large-scale AI bets in the US (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-

A year and a half ago, I was let go by my previous employer. They did a half a dozen rounds of layoffs over the course of 2 years or so. The previous Christmas, six packs of these were the Christmas present to employees. They worked with a local microbrewery to commission a line of beer to celebrate their successes. This has been sitting in my fridge since then. I don't drink that much and I didn't feel like dumping it out. It's been waiting for me to make a recipe that calls for beer.

I want to push back on the idea in the world of tech work that a PIP (performance improvement plan) is about getting rid of someone, that they're not intended to be survivable.
This is completely false. (I'm sure there's instances of it, of course, but the mode and vast majority are, in fact about performance improvement. Sometimes they're shadow layoffs, but that is cruel callous behavior that not everyone will exhibit.)
Now _most people do not survive the PIP process_. This is to be expected: if someone is in fact not performing, and more gentle remedies haven't worked, it's not looking good.
But here's where I get a bit spicy: most performance problems are constitutional problems with management and management style, not individual performance problems. However, since managers are as a class 'in power' somewhat, the individual contributor takes the fall for this structurally.
The intent of a PIP is not to get rid of people. It's to right performance.
However, as a system, PIPs do largely get rid of people who are constitutionally misaligned with management. Even when it's a management problem (and it usually is)

Semiconductor giant Intel has officially begun a new round of layoffs, following through on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's warning two months ago that job cuts were "inevitable" as part of a wider restructuring strategy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/inte

Intel begins laying off 10,000 under CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Plus: Microsoft readies another wave of Xbox cuts

Supreme Court clears way for Trump to gut education department – live updates
The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education -- part of his effort to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more state control.
In the latest high court win for Trump, the justices lifted a federal judge’s order that had reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs at the department and block…

Wow, they're cancelling that Perfect Dark reboot? It looked so good, though?
https://kotaku.com/xbox-reportedly-cancels-that-cool-looking-perfect-dark-1851785531

Xbox Reportedly Cancels That Cool-Looking Perfect Dark Reboot
Perfect Dark studio The Initiative has also been shut down as part of ongoing layoffs at Microsoft

"When is cancer political?" Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin's layoffs, budget cuts - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-is-cancer-political-medical-researchers-patients-decry-trump-admins-layoffs-budget-cuts/

Something I'll never understand, when a company announces layoffs, they still say they're looking at growth in the future. That's some fuckin bullshit, as they say, right there

The Trump administration rescinds VOA layoff notices due to document errors that could have delayed or nullified the layoffs, plans to attempt the layoffs again (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/trump-voa-layoffs…

Trump Administration Rescinds Voice of America Layoffs After Errors in Notices
The errors in the layoff notices could have derailed President Trump’s effort to dismantle the news organization. The administration said it would attempt the layoffs again.

Microsoft cuts hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, sources say including Halo Studios and King, and cancels games like Perfect Dark and Everwild (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)
https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/all-the-x

All The Xbox Games Cancelled And Studios Closed In Microsoft's Latest Mass Layoffs
Microsoft has made more dramatic cuts to the Xbox business.

Toronto Star: “New numbers reveal 10,000-plus Ontario college layoffs, 600 programs cancelled or suspended over past year”
The bloodbath in our higher education system in Canada has gotten NO press even though provincial governments and likely federal KNOW. This is the first in depth article I have seen. ALL governments micro-manage university and college policy/finances, no matter what they might say to the contrary.
Here are some truths you need to know:
Yes, I am biased as a 25 year employee of a University.
Yes, my University has also had completely unprecedented cuts in the past 12-24 months, with more coming.
Yes, it is because of the loss of International Students and their tuition revenue. Without that loss, many domestic enrollment numbers have actually been growing, but the money per student is orders of magnitude less. (ie. International was a cash cow)
Yes, faculty and even many admin, have been warning about the government downloading funding onto International tuitions for decades.
Yes, government will claim they are “investing more than ever”, but this is usually about Capital expenses (buildings, residences, infrastructure) or meeting contractual increases for staff salaries, *not* operating expenses.
Yes, in BC in the 1980s 80-90% of a University or College operating budget was covered by “base funding” from the province. Now, it is often below 50%. (If this makes you ask… is it still a “public University system”, please do!!)
And finally, yes, if we want to consider ourselves a modern country, we cannot possibly think this kind of contraction in educational opportunity (while domestic tuitions continue to increase!) is at all healthy for our society as a whole.
Toronto Star: #canpoli #cdnpoli #education #internationalEd #immigration #postsecondary #educationShouldBeFree

Mass layoffs likely to remain blocked, for now, thanks to a Supreme Court footnote - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/06/mass-layoffs-likely-remain-blocked-now-thanks-supreme-court-footnote/406381/

IGN lays off staff, including eight members of the IGN Creators Guild, representing 12% of the bargaining unit, as parent company Ziff Davis cuts costs (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/718692/ign-entertainment-layoffs-creators-guil…

IGN hit by layoffs as parent company Ziff Davis cuts costs
IGN is laying off eight of its unionized staffers, and the guild representing them says it’s due to a mandate from Ziff Davis to cut costs.

There are "concerns that the deal could lead to widespread store closures, layoffs and reduced access to healthcare in vulnerable communities."
What’s Next for Walgreens Following its Private Equity Sale? - MedCity News
https://medcitynews.com/2025/09/walgreens-private-equity-sale/

RFK Jr to testify at Senate hearing on chaos at federal health agencies and vaccine policy changes
– live updates
Trump’s health secretary is expected to face tough questions on about department layoffs and budget cuts amid scrutiny over his plans to
‘make America healthy again’

Ziff Davis is laying off 15% of its unionized workforce, or 23 people, 19 of which work for CNET; Ziff Davis has bought five companies in 2025 (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/715220/ziff-davis-creators-guild-cnet-layoffs

Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree
Media company Ziff Davis is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, with the majority being from tech outlet CNET.

Sources: Anonymous Content, the production company behind Spotlight, is undergoing layoffs; the estimated cut is less than 15% from a total staff of about 130 (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/anonymous-content-layoffs-1236498446/

Anonymous Content Cutting Around 15% Of Staff
Anonymous Content will be conducting lay offs impacting less than 15% of staff.

The Portland Tribune and two sister papers will cease their print editions after major newsroom layoffs, while the Gresham Outlook will reduce its print output (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/0

Portland Tribune will cease print publication after major newsroom layoffs
Papers in Milwaukie and Oregon City will stop printing, too, while the Gresham Outlook will move from two editions a week to one.

In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says a "culture of fear", with performance reviews and layoffs, is spreading like "a metastatic cancer" (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me…

Meta AI Researcher Warns of ‘Metastatic Cancer’ Afflicting Company Culture
Over the past month, Meta Platforms has overhauled its stumbling efforts in artificial intelligence by making a head-spinning series of hires of leaders and researchers from outside the company. But a key question has lingered: Why has Meta struggled so badly in AI that it’s injecting so much ...

CDC sources say its funding is coming at 'eyedropper' pace, hurting states and cities : Shots - Health News : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/28/nx-s1-5442689/cdc-trump-layoffs-public-health-rescission

Sources: NPR aims to trim $5M over the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 to balance its $300M annual budget but doesn't anticipate layoffs or major programming shifts (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5539164/npr-public-media-funding-budge…

A look at Marc Benioff's pursuit of productivity gains through AI at Salesforce, which has undergone a series of layoffs over the past two years (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

Automation comes for tech jobs in the world capital of AI
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has made himself a cheerleader for AI’s potential to disrupt work while also laying off staff.

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
After the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump on Tuesday to resume firing government workers, federal employees rushed to Signal group chats and anxious phone calls, trying to figure out what it meant for them.
Some federal workers cried. Some shook their heads and began updating their resumes. Others — including union leaders — vowed to fight, determined to hang on to the government jobs that …

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
The ruling could usher in a more professionalized round of layoffs, compared to the erratic rush of firings carried out by Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service.

Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group is undergoing 10% cuts across multiple divisions to transition "toward a fully global structure" (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-new…

Layoffs Strike Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group
Studio heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy announced the shift in direction in a memo to staff.

Experts say TCS' decision to cut 12K jobs signals the start of an AI-fueled trend that could eliminate ~500K jobs in India's $283B IT sector within three years (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-

Panera Bread to cut hundreds of jobs in shift to frozen dough model
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/07/25/panera-bread-layoffs-frozen-dough-shift/85372741007/

Kari Lake says the USAGM sent layoff notices to 532 VOA employees, leaving ~100 staffers still employed; Lake had to rescind a previous layoff effort in June (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025…

Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists
The layoffs set up a potential battle with a federal judge who blocked previous efforts by Kari Lake, a fierce Trump ally, to restructure the agency.

The Supreme Court on July 8 lifted a federal judge's order pausing the Trump administration's large-scale staffing cuts and agency restructuring,
boosting the president's campaign to bleed the federal bureaucracy to death
In an unsigned and brief opininon, the justices said they are not ruling on the legality of a specific reorganization plan.
But, the court said, the judge was wrong to stop the administration from moving ahead with such plans.
The mass fe…

Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with large-scale staff cuts for now — USA TODAY
A U.S. district judge in San Francisco had temporarily blocked large-scale federal layoffs known as "reductions in force."

Source: Microsoft's Chief Commercial Officer said during a presentation that AI saved Microsoft $500M last year in its call centers and increased satisfaction (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

As always... truth-in-comedy from the #Beaverton
Who's looking forward to mass layoffs for efficiency and AI!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberals #Austerity #Conservatives

The LA Times Guild plans to hold its first-ever strike authorization vote as contract talks near their third year; the union lost about 200 members since 2022 (Raquel 'Rocky' Harris/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-union-strike-authorization-vote/…

LA Times Union to Hold First-Ever Strike Authorization Vote as Contract Talks Near 3rd Year
Since negotiations began in September 2020, the guild has seen layoffs impact approximately 200 Times staffers.

TikTok lays off workers from the US division of TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for the team since April, after a year of missing internal sales targets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Since Trump took office, Zapata had heard about federal agents showing up even at routine immigration hearings and taking migrants away in handcuffs.
He was afraid of being arrested and sent to a detention facility like the so-called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida,
or to a far-away country
— perhaps El Salvador or South Sudan, where authorities have shipped U.S. deportees in recent months.
“Imagine arriving in Africa with no documents and no money," Zapata said. …

Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K jobs (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.in…

Big Tech continues to hire in India even as local majors downsize
Despite global layoffs, FAAMNG companies are expanding their India headcount, growing by 16% in the past year, driven by demand for AI, cloud, and cybersecurity skills. While Indian IT firms face workforce reductions due to skills mismatch, Big Tech's India-based global capability centers are increasing hiring for high-end work and innovation.


Kari Lake, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.

The agency sent out notices late Friday night ahead of the Labor Day long weekend, with a termination date of Sept. 30, multiple recipients told The Washington Post.

Lake — the acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — has faced legal challenges amid allegations that she is overstepping her statutory authority,
and was blocked earlier this week from firi…

Kari Lake lays off more than 500 staff at Voice of America parent agency
Amid a contentious court battle, the Trump administration official sent long-awaited termination notices to staffers who have been waiting on administrative leave for months.

Nearly 80 BBC journalists, including presenter Martine Croxall, call on the NUJ to schedule a vote on a strike over colleagues facing compulsory layoffs (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-news-presenters-strike-vote-mar…

BBC News Presenters Back Demand For Strike Vote As Colleagues Face Compulsory Layoffs
BBC News anchors, including Martine Croxall, are among those calling on the NUJ to hold a strike ballot over colleagues facing compulsory redundancy.

Repeated warnings of AI-driven layoffs is fueling anxiety among workers, who report feeling pressured to accept pay cuts or worse conditions to keep their jobs (Anne Lutz Fernandez/Nobody Wants This)
https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/ai-is-already-disemp…

AI is Already Disempowering Workers Through Hype
Workers and students are being prepped for less power in the workplace

The UK's Reach plans to merge its national and regional sports journalism teams into one central hub, resulting in around 50 layoffs (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-to-streamline-sports-team…

Reach to 'streamline' sports teams into one hub with 'around 50' redundancies
Reach has proposed major changes to how its sports journalists work, bringing many of the national and regional teams into one.

Satya Nadella's memo on Microsoft's layoffs portends the harsh reality that AI could make software companies more profitable while employing fewer people (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2025/07/26/the-satya-of-satyas-layoff-memo/

The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo
“The tournament of today – a set-to between labor and monopoly. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a memo is not just a memo. That’s why we have to read between …

In a note to staff, Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait announces a major newsroom reorganization, which includes staff layoffs (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1942626239069536595

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
In a note to staff, Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait announced a major newsroom reorg/cuts, merging credit/finance groups, legal/financial reg groups. "We have sadly had to say goodbye to some colleagues," but Bloomberg will "end this year with a bigger newsroom than we started

Michigan State University professor Josh Cowen announced Thursday that he is running for one of the battleground state’s most competitive congressional districts,
joining a crowded field of Democrats seeking to challenge Republican Rep. Tom Barrett.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Cowen said federal worker layoffs and cuts to research funding and Medicaid inspired him to run for the Lansing-area seat that Barrett flipped in 2024.
“What it really means in our daily…

Michigan State professor Josh Cowen announces run for US Rep. Tom Barrett's seat
A third Democrat has announced a bid to run against Michigan Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett in one of the battleground state's most competitive districts. Josh Cowen is an education policy professor at Michigan State University known for his research on school voucher programs. He announced Thursday that he is running for the state's 7th Congressional District that encompasses the capital city of Lansing and surrounding rural areas. Barrett flipped the district in 2024, winning by 3.7 points …

Vox Media's union says 15 members working at Eater were told without warning that their jobs were being cut, eliminating roughly a third of Eater's union jobs (Vox Media Union)
https://bsky.app/profile/voxmediaunion.bsky.social/post/3lvt4rtddyc2m

Vox Media Union (@voxmediaunion.bsky.social)
Vox Media Union statement on today's devastating round of layoffs at Eater. We stand with all of our wonderful colleagues. #solidarityforever #unionstrong #1u

PBS is cutting 100 positions, or about 15% of its staff, including 34 immediate layoffs, after Congress stripped $500M in annual funding from public media (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/business/media/pbs-job-cuts.html
…

PBS to Cut 15% of Its Staff
Congress voted this year to strip $500 million in annual funding from public broadcasters, including PBS stations.