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@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-08 15:10:37

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump (The Guardian)
theguardian.com/news/ng-intera
memeorandum.com/260208/p15#a26

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2026-01-08 20:45:11

it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-10 03:50:44

Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector (Fast Company)
fastcompany.com/91435192/chatg

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-09 10:20:37

Washington Post Guild Steward Sarah Kaplan says the reported 300 layoffs figure doesn't account for non-Guild cuts, making the actual total "well over" 300 (Paul Farhi/@farhip)
x.com/farhip/status/2020591656

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-06 17:40:33

US Layoffs Surge to Highest Level Since Great Recession | Thomson/Reuters
newsmax.com/newsfront/layoffs-

U.S. layoffs totaled 71,321 in November and 1.17 million this year.
It’s the most since 2020 and a 44% increase from 2024.
Recent Layoffs:
UPS: 48,000 employees
Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees
Intel: 24,000 employees
Microsoft: 15,000 employees
2026 will be the year of mass unemployment.

@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social
2025-12-09 13:38:19

I am so glad I am no longer working in the tech industry. It was kinda fun in the "princes of labor" era, but with all the layoffs and mow the AI race to the bottom I can’t imagine it being a good environment.
Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane
by @…

@deabigt@universeodon.com
2026-02-07 02:45:53

Layoffs hit their worst January levels since 2009, Challenger says ground.news/article/layoffs-hi

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-06 20:05:01

WaPo Publisher Will Lewis appeared at NFL Honors in San Francisco Thursday, after failing to show for a Zoom call in which WaPo announced historic layoffs (Drew Lerner/Awful Announcing)
awfulannouncing.com/newspapers

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-08 00:46:08

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he's stepping down | AP News
apnews.com/article/washington-

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-11-29 22:33:56

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice strike again! wired.com/story/amazon-employe

The Washington Post told employees on Wednesday that
it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to
decimate the organization’s sports, local news and international coverage.
Matt Murray, The Post’s executive editor, told newsroom employees on a call that
all sections would be affected in some way.
But he said that the end result would be a publication that focused even more on national news and politics,
as well as business and health…

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-08 03:49:20

Washington Post Union Calls for Jeff Bezos to Sell the Paper - Business Insider
businessinsider.com/washington

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-08 06:25:46

Ubisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
gamedeveloper.com/business/ubi

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-05 13:50:59

Marty Baron says "I firmly believe" Jeff Bezos prioritizes his other interests over WaPo; Jim VandeHei says "I have no clue what their strategy was or is" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/media/2026/feb

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2025-11-24 21:38:45

[OT] Companies are blaming #AI for layoffs. The real reason... medium.com/@mattlar.jari/compa

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-05 03:36:04

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff (CNN)
cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washi
memeorandum.com/260204/p147#a2

@lilmikesf@c.im
2026-01-31 14:28:17

#WaPo layoffs looming as #Olympic coverage cancelled , Natalie Korach reported for #Status that "upwards of 100 newsroom layoffs" are "expected to hit the sports, metro and foreign teams hardest"
One unnamed edit…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 13:48:41

Video call: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says the paper plans to lay off hundreds of staff, cutting into its local, international, and sports coverage (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/02/04/busines

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-12-03 23:00:57

My previous company has started the standard startup holiday layoffs.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 18:25:55

With the WaPo layoffs, we're seeing a business and leadership failure, and the death of a newspaper where the actual journalism still stands strong (Ashley Parker/The Atlantic)

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-05 22:46:04

Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post (Alex Kirshner/Slate)
slate.com/business/2026/02/jef
memeorandum.com/260205/p112#a2

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2026-01-14 00:39:38

Well, I guess the Armature folks have “openings” now, among others who were laid off 😢💔 aftermath.site/meta-ubisoft-un

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-05 04:45:53

State Department blocked from impending layoffs, for now | Courthouse News Service
courthousenews.com/state-depar

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-30 16:40:05

"“AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that’s masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests”. That darker reality is that the economy is already screwed."
(Original title: The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake)
pivot…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 15:25:54

Ex-WaPo Executive Editor Marty Baron says "this ranks among the darkest days in the history of" the paper; WaPo laid off Amazon beat reporter Caroline O'Donovan (Todd Spangler/Variety)
variety.com/2026/digital/news/

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2026-01-11 08:19:13

"Selon l'analyse du cabinet [Oxford Economics], « les entreprises ne semblent pas remplacer leurs employés par l'IA Š grande échelle », ce qui suggère plutôt qu'elles pourraient utiliser cette technologie comme prétexte pour réduire leurs effectifs de manière systématique."

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-04 17:37:26

Pinterest Sacks Workers For Creating Tool To Track Layoffs
slashdot.org/story/26/02/04/11

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 17:30:53

Sources: The Washington Post has laid off a third of its staff; major cuts are also being made on the business side of the Post's beleaguered operations (CNN)
cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washi

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-05 21:22:27

Amazon reports Q4 AWS revenue up 24% YoY to $35.6B, vs. $34.9B est., AWS operating income up 17% YoY to $12.5B, and boosts capex in 2026 to $200B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/02/05/amazon-amz

Employers slashed more than 150,000 jobs in October,
the largest wave of layoffs in more than 20 years,
a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Nov. 6.
From tech to Hollywood, retailers and utilities,
U.S. companies are intensifying job cuts and workforce reductions that began in 2024,
as they focus on cost savings and leaner operations amid a challenging economic environment.
Firms have pointed to a myriad of causes for their layoffs,
fr…

@grork@mastodon.social
2026-01-31 17:42:52

Layoffs, profits, and The Quarterly Cycle™ create headlines, discussion, and narratives that make $1bn in quarterly profit look like less than zero. Breaking even, a milestone for any growing business, would be catastrophic.
1/2

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-31 17:05:37

US applications for jobless benefits fell below 200,000 last week with layoffs historically low (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/unemploymen
memeorandum.com/251231/p32#a25

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-05 02:01:36

In an interview, Washington Post top editor Matt Murray says Jeff Bezos supports "reinvention" and wants WaPo to be "a bigger, relevant, thriving institution" (Brian Stelter/CNN)
cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/jeff-

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2026-02-02 22:40:44

The inch that generative AI boosters give is the country mile that employers take to justify mass layoffs in the name of AI

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-28 10:34:04

Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 (Beth Galetti/About Amazon)
aboutamazon.com/news/company-n

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-03 00:55:15

Feds drop appeal challenging court order halting federal layoffs | Courthouse News Service
courthousenews.com/feds-drop-a

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 14:35:53

Sources: WaPo told its ~45-person sports staff that some will be re-assigned within the newsroom, as it cuts one of the great American newspaper sports sections (Dan Shanoff/The Athletic)
nytimes.com/athletic/7019090/2

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-11-20 22:58:50

Bell with another round of layoffs. The r/bell thread seems to think 10% across the country. It’s can't actually remember a time when Bell announced they were 'hiring'.
How is this company one of the 'big’ telecoms and yet continues to offload people?
#Bell
flipboard.com/@dailyhive/daily

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-11-25 04:27:18

THE PLAN:
Remove anything gold.
Recreate the art deco.
Clear out the "Walk of Fame".
Rebuild the rose garden.
Tear down the ballroom.
Restore the East Wing.
Rehire Federal layoffs.
Restore defunded institutions.
Repeal the Big Dumb Bill.
Pack the Supreme Court.
Fire anyone hired by him.
END PART 1.

@deabigt@universeodon.com
2026-01-27 19:31:21

A good breakdown of who is most affected by layoffs in general and AI-caused layoffs in particular.
Who Will Adapt Best to AI Disruption? youtu.be/GbxFFOAdn0Q?si=1ZE6A8

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2026-01-23 06:34:08

I'm just so glad that I didn't decide to rely on vimeo for hosting my videos. I got aware of peertube just at the right time.
Besides that I really wonder how bending spoons manages to continue service when firing the staff. On the other hand, maybe the systems are just well developed and thus quite robust.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-29 17:31:41

49ers streaking into the playoffs: Why Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco look primed to break Super Bowl drought

cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-p

Beong-Soo Kim will serve as USC’s 13th President, according to a community-wide email sent Wednesday.
Kim has served as USC’s interim president since July 2025.
The election by the Board of Trustees was unanimous.
A Feb. 5 email from Suzanne Nora Johnson, chair of the USC board of trustees, stated that Kim,
formerly general counsel and senior vice president at USC,
would not be a candidate for the presidency in order to “dedicate all of his efforts to being a fa…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-07 18:02:02

Sources: before the layoffs, a group of wealthy DC locals asked Will Lewis whether WaPo would sell them its local and sports sections, but never got an answer (Jon Passantino/Status)
status.news/p/washington-post-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-27 13:26:47

Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is "reallocating resources" to AI teams (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-04 16:49:09

'This Is a Wakeup Call': Critics Disgusted as Billionaire Bezos Guts Washington Post | Common Dreams
commondreams.org/news/bezos-wa

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-05 15:31:00

Layoffs in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, Challenger says (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and
memeorandum.com/260205/p35#a26

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-08 06:31:10

A WaPo newsroom source says senior management was livid that Will Lewis attended Super Bowl festivities as news of layoffs broke, adding, "Bezos lost patience" (Financial Times)
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle

Layoffs in the past year:
• Dell: 13,000
• Intel: 27,000
• Meta: 11,000
• UPS: 48,000
• FedEx: 12,000
• Boeing: 17,000
• Verizon: 15,000
• Walmart: 12,000
• Amazon: 30,000
• Microsoft: 15,000
• Citigroup: 20,000
Job security is a myth.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-04 20:55:51

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 (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technol

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-01-17 01:02:16

Almost like they're chopped off the metaverse at the knees…
So visionary that they renamed and redirected the company after the wrong technology trend.

Meta Lays Off 1,500 People in Metaverse Division
Cuts affect 10% of staff as spending shifts to company’s AI glasses, other wearables products
By 
Meghan Bobrowsky
Jan. 14, 2026 1:20 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-layoffs-reality-labs-2026-347008b0
@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-01-20 16:39:16

On the "This is not good news" front, let's not ignore this:
‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-01-20 16:39:16

On the "This is not good news" front, let's not ignore this:
‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-12 20:34:06

Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch lays off dozens, citing move to “accelerate” AI investment
techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/cybe

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-29 15:01:40

To avert layoffs, WaPo's White House correspondents, not considered at risk, write a letter to Jeff Bezos highlighting collaborations among the paper's sections (Max Tani/Semafor)
semafor.com/article/01/29/2026

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-02 16:38:01

GAO: Education Dept's RIF cost taxpayers $28M
thehill.com/homenews/education

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 17:55:53

How Jeff Bezos has forced WaPo into severe decline in Trump's second term, including today's mass layoffs that seem to transform it into a kind of Politico-lite (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)
newyorker.com/news/annals-of-c

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-04 14:09:10

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 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-29 19:55:45

CBS, Post blind themselves when America needs eyes on the ground (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-news-
memeorandum.com/260129/p95#a26

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-04 09:26:05

Pinterest fires two employees who it says "wrote custom scripts" that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs (BBC)
bbc.com/news/articles/cn0k670n

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 16:01:42

An anonymous WaPo Metro staffer who was just laid off says there are now just ~12 people left on the desk, down from more than 40 (David Folkenflik/NPR)
npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-56993

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-30 06:05:31

Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K ; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
thewrap.com/industry-news/busi

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 23:40:51

As Meta shifts resources away from its Supernatural VR fitness service, users mourn the loss of a community built around the platform and its coaches (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
wired.com/story/metas-layoffs-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 14:10:56

Sources: WaPo plans to end the sports section in its "current form", restructure the metro desk, and eliminate the books section as part of a "strategic reset" (The Wrap)
thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-28 09:11:12

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 (Parth Mn/Rest of World)
restofworld.org/2026/india-tec

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-07 06:36:09

WaPo terminated the contract of its Delhi bureau chief Pranshu Verma; a source says "there is no clarity if the paper will continue with its bureau in Delhi" (Aban Usmani/Newslaundry)
newslaundry.com/2026/02/05/wha

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-26 02:20:38

Post Parting Depression (Natalie Korach/Status)
status.news/p/washington-post-
memeorandum.com/260125/p88#a26

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-12 20:42:56

Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/12/technol

The #Washington #Post has consistently produced high-quality, news cycle-leading reporting over the first year of Donald Trump’s chaotic and unpredictable second administration.
But that work has been produced under a cloud of uncertainty and rumors of widespread

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-26 21:18:14

The Washington Post Correspondents Start "Save The Post" Campaign
deadline.com/2026/01/washingto

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-06 07:01:49

Sources: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray spiked a story prepared by the newspaper's media desk covering the historic layoffs (Natalie Korach/@nataliekorach)
x.com/nataliekorach/status/201

The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-24 03:20:36

Memo: WaPo won't send sports staffers to cover the Winter Olympics in Italy, as it assesses financial priorities for 2026, following reports of expected layoffs (Benjamin Lindsay/The Wrap)
thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo<…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-13 22:25:53

As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural (Jay Peters/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/861420/meta-

Journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti-DEI push:
It's not just a coincidence
Black and brown former employees from CBS, NBC and Teen Vogue talk about the effects of being let go
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-21 23:21:21

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 (Business Insider)
businessinsider.com/vimeo-layi

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-11-13 05:16:15

Another Major Tech Company Just Announced Thousands of Layoffs
gizmodo.com/another-major-tech

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-27 02:01:13

Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely (Natalie Korach/Status)
status.news/p/washington-post-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-30 01:31:11

Sources: WaPo's layoffs may narrow its scope to topics of expertise and reader interest based on digital traffic, with politics and video becoming more central (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/29/busines

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-19 05:35:53

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 (Palmer Luckey/@palmerluckey)
x.com/palmerluckey/status/2013

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-11 19:30:36

The Purged -- The purge began late Friday night, four days after Donald Trump returned to the White House. (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/
memeorandum.com/260111/p42#a26

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-28 02:46:09

Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday "Project Dawn" meeting about company efficiency (Business Insider)
businessinsider.com/amazon-sta

Last month, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey held a mock funeral outside the university’s college of humanities and social sciences building.
Carrying bouquets of flowers,
they stood by a tombstone inscribed with the names of the school’s 15 departments, including English, history and sociology.
“We are gathered here today, in front of the humble home of CHSS, Dickson Hall, to mourn the death of the social sciences and humanities at the hands of the MSU…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-27 13:30:42

Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is "reallocating resources" to AI teams (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-

After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform,
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts
— the ones that were once so central to its vision that it renamed the entire company after them.
This week, the Wall Street Journalreported Meta was laying off some 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division,
-- the department working on Meta’s virtual reality products.
As part of the …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-26 06:30:41

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" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
theblock.co/post/386942/entro…

Jim Beam,
the country’s largest maker of bourbon,
has announced a one-year pause in production at its flagship facility in Clermont, Ky.,
a stunning move that underlines the immense challenges facing the American whiskey industry after more than two decades of rapid growth.
The decision by the brand, owned by the Japanese conglomerate 🔸Suntory Holdings,
is the latest in a series of production cuts, layoffs and financial crises across the wine, beer and spirits s…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-17 22:10:52

Trump admin broke spending deal agreement to halt mass layoffs, judge says (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
politico.com/news/2025/12/17/g
memeorandum.com/251217/p117#a2

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-21 22:30:54

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 (Business Insider)
businessinsider.com/vimeo-layi

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-17 04:45:47

Spooked by AI and Layoffs, White-Collar Workers See Their Security Slip Away (Rachel Louise Ensign/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/economy/jobs/white-col
memeorandum.com/251216/p152#a2

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-20 13:15:51

Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000 employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/telecom/ver…

The Labor Department says it will release a key report on the September job market next Thursday, almost seven weeks behind schedule.
The jobs report is one of many closely-watched economic indicators that were held up by the government shutdown.
The report — which details hiring, layoffs and the unemployment rate for September — was almost complete when the government economists who tally jobs were abruptly furloughed by the shutdown.
Since the data was already in hand, th…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-28 23:45:59

WaPo CEO Will Lewis has floated a bunch of plans to make the company profitable again; several efforts failed to pan out, part of a pattern of fits and starts (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-26 18:10:51

Sources detail how Canadian media company Valnet gutted Military.com, including layoffs and a reduction of in-depth journalism, while facing new Pentagon rules (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
cjr.org/feature/military-dot-c

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 13:45:50

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 (David Pierce/The Verge)
theverge.com/tech/845216/mozil

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 11:56:06

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 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-25 16:30:39

Foreign correspondents at WaPo send a letter to Jeff Bezos raising alarm over impending layoffs, which are expected to "land hard" on international coverage (@erikwemple)
x.com/erikwemple/status/201543

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-16 04:06:10

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 04:15:40

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-