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As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/08/washington-post-layoffs-democracy-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p15#a260208p15

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

Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector (Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.

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)
https://x.com/farhip/status/2020591656387694810

Paul Farhi (@farhip) on X
For the record: It’s been widely reported that the @washingtonpost laid off the equivalent of a third of its newsroom last week. Terrible enough, but this appears to understate what happened.  More…

US Layoffs Surge to Highest Level Since Great Recession | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/layoffs-ups-amazon/2026/02/06/id/1245120/

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.
https…

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com (@thefinancenewsletter.com)
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.

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 @…

Layoffs hit their worst January levels since 2009, Challenger says https://ground.news/article/layoffs-hit-their-worst-january-levels-since-2009-challenger-says_8366b6

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)
https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/will-lewis-nfl…

WaPo editor Will Lewis spotted on NFL red carpet day after killing paper's sports desk
Washington Post publisher Will Lewis appeared on the NFL Honors red carpet one day after laying off one-third of his paper.

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he's stepping down | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-will-lewis-stepping-down-layoffs-c8559f5e1d9f4d73f37163e4a708f9da

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice strike again! https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-employees-open-letter-artificial-intelligence-layoffs/?emci=8691…

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

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…

Washington Post Begins Cutting More Than 300 Jobs
The layoffs will cut into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage, and reduce the number of all its employees by about 30 percent.

Washington Post Union Calls for Jeff Bezos to Sell the Paper - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-post-union-urges-jeff-bezos-sell-paper-layoffs-ceo-2026-2

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)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubis…

Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after devs vote to unionize
Workers at the Canadian studio voted to unionize in December in search of security in an era of 'studio closures, layoffs, and increasing instability.

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)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/05/mass-layoffs-wash…

[OT] Companies are blaming #AI for layoffs. The real reason... https://medium.com/@mattlar.jari/companies-are-blaming-ai-for-layoffs-the-real-rea…

Companies Are Blaming AI for Layoffs. The Real Reason Will Piss You Off.
180,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2025. Companies say it’s because of AI. Oxford researchers call BS.

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260204/p147#a260204p147

#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…

Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

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)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html

Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
The layoffs are slated to shrink the newsroom by hundreds of journalists, cutting into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage.

My previous company has started the standard startup holiday layoffs.

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)
https://www.

The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post (Alex Kirshner/Slate)
https://slate.com/business/2026/02/jeff-bezos-washington-post-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p112#a260205p112

Well, I guess the Armature folks have “openings” now, among others who were laid off 😢💔 https://aftermath.site/meta-ubisoft-unity-layoffs-2026/

Bad Day
Two weeks into the year, too many layoffs

State Department blocked from impending layoffs, for now | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/state-department-blocked-from-impending-layoffs-for-now/

"“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)
https://pivot…

The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake
Both of these statements are true: Across the whole US economy, there’s not really a visible effect of AI on hiring and job mix; Some sectors are absolutely devastated directly by AI. But als…

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)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/

Washington Post Layoffs Cut More Than 300 Employees at Jeff Bezos Paper
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.

"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."

Pinterest Sacks Workers For Creating Tool To Track Layoffs
https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/04/114220/pinterest-sacks-workers-for-creating-tool-to-track-layoffs

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)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff
The Washington Post laid off about one in three employees across the company Wednesday morning, dealing another big blow to a newsroom that has reached a breaking point.

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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/amazon-amzn-q4-earnings-report-2025.html

Amazon set to report earnings with AI spend, cloud growth, job cuts in focus
Investors are expected to focus on cloud growth, AI spending and the recent layoffs in Amazon's corporate workforce.

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…

Layoffs are hitting. See the major companies cutting jobs in 2025.
Verizon, Amazon, Target and Paramount are just a few of the many companies to have announced layoffs in 2025.

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

US applications for jobless benefits fell below 200,000 last week with layoffs historically low (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-5e0ab36c477fdb0e4924c3851b852725
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p32#a251231p32

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)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/jeff-bezos-matt-murray…

Jeff Bezos remains committed to Washington Post amid brutal layoffs, top editor says
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos remains committed to the publication, its top editor told CNN in an interview Wednesday, hours after the Post laid off hundreds of employees.

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

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)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs-corporate-jan…

Update on our organization
The following message was shared with Amazon employees earlier today.

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

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)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7019090/2026/02/04/washington-post-…

The Washington Post eliminates sports section as part of wider layoffs
The Post's sports section was a longstanding foundation for sports fans in the D.C. region.

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
https://flipboard.com/@dailyhive/daily-hive-vancouver-ar91atkoz/-/a-IvwInjurQyG1YqTyz8NjVg:a:3765800918-/0

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.

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? https://youtu.be/GbxFFOAdn0Q?si=1ZE6A8bhOUWzraJI

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.

Vimeo is laying off staff globally after its $1.38 billion sale to Bending Spoons
Vimeo is letting go of workers globally in a new round of layoffs after selling its business to tech-holding company Bending Spoons.

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

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-playoffs-kyle-shanaha…

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…

Beong-Soo Kim to be USC’s next president - Daily Trojan
As interim president, Kim launched the USC Open Dialogue Project and oversaw USC layoffs and budget reductions.

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)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-jeff-bezos-ownership-sell

Conflict of Disinterest
Jeff Bezos was once hailed as the ideal billionaire steward of a newspaper—but his recent actions have made clear that it’s time for him to sell The Washington Post.

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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-layoffs-stock-ai.html

Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce in push toward AI roles and teams
The company said it's "reallocating resources" to roles and teams focused on artificial intelligence.

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

Layoffs in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, Challenger says (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and-hiring-announcements-hit-their-worst-january-levels-since-2009-challenger-says.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p35#a260205p35

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)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/146e2dc…

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.
https://

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com (@thefinancenewsletter.com)
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.

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)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/meta-cuts-metaverse-unit.html

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

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.

On the "This is not good news" front, let's not ignore this:
‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/universities-huma…

On the "This is not good news" front, let's not ignore this:
‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/universities-huma…

Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch lays off dozens, citing move to “accelerate” AI investment
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/cybersecurity-firm-deepwatch-lays-off-dozens-citing-move-to-accelerate-ai-investment/

Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch lays off dozens, citing move to "accelerate" AI investment | TechCrunch
Deepwatch’s CEO told TechCrunch that the layoffs allow the company to accelerate investments in “AI and automation.”

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)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/29/2026

Exclusive: Washington Post’s White House team tries to avert layoffs in letter to Bezos
The effort from the Post’s White House reporters comes as staffers are scrambling to preserve their jobs ahead of impending layoffs.

GAO: Education Dept's RIF cost taxpayers $28M
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5718437-gao-education-department-layoffs/

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)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-c…

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
Ruth Marcus on the latest round of layoffs at the Washington Post and what the impact has been on the newspaper and its staff since it was bought by Jeff Bezos in 2013.

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s…

CBS, Post blind themselves when America needs eyes on the ground (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-news-washington-post-layoffs-20260129.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p95#a260129p95

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)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0k670n0ydo

Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track job cuts
The social media platform recently announced that it was axing around 15% of its workforce.

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)
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5699328/washington-post-layoffs-jobs-bezos

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)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/entertainment-media-l…

Entertainment and Media Layoffs Up 18% With Over 17,000 Jobs Slashed in 2025
A wave of consolidation, AI-driven change and cost-cutting pushed entertainment and media layoffs sharply higher in 2025

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)
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-layoffs-supernatural-fitness-users/

Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning
Users of the VR fitness service are distraught that Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates. They’re also pissed at Meta.

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)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/washingto…

The Washington Post Is Slashing Its Newsroom in ‘Strategic Reset’
The Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper is making significant cuts to international, sports, metro and books

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)
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker
A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

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)
https://www.newslaundry.com/2026/02/05/what-the-murder-o…

What the ‘murder’ of Washington Post means for India
The Washington Post’s layoffs aren’t just an American media story. As foreign bureaus close and global coverage shrinks, countries like India lose one more watcher – and we’re reminded how fragile journalism becomes when it rests in the hands of billionaires.

Post Parting Depression (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p88#a260125p88

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)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/technology/meta-layoffs-reality-labs.html

Meta Plans to Cut 10% to 15% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta’s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.

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

The Washington Post Correspondents Start "Save The Post" Campaign
https://deadline.com/2026/01/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-1236697326/

Sources: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray spiked a story prepared by the newspaper's media desk covering the historic layoffs (Natalie Korach/@nataliekorach)
https://x.com/nataliekorach/status/2019614374432825673

Natalie Korach (@NatalieKorach) on X
Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying https://t.co/5EbLMPEFlJ

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…

Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.

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)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo<…

Washington Post Cancels On-Site Winter Olympics Coverage Ahead of Expected Layoffs
Managing Editor Kimi Yoshino says the decision to not send reporters to the Games comes after assessing financial priorities.

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)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861420/meta-reality-la…

Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
Meta’s Reality Labs layoffs include shutting down some of its VR studios, according to employees affected by the cuts.

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
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

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)
https://www.businessinsider.com/vimeo-laying-off-staff-after-bi…

Vimeo is laying off staff globally after its $1.38 billion sale to Bending Spoons
Vimeo is letting go of workers globally in a new round of layoffs after selling its business to tech-holding company Bending Spoons.

Another Major Tech Company Just Announced Thousands of Layoffs
https://gizmodo.com/another-major-tech-company-just-announced-thousands-of-layoffs-2000685222

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)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos

Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

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)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/business/media/washington-post-newsroom.html…

Washington Post Plans Cuts to Reshape Newsroom
The changes are expected to include significant layoffs in areas like sports and international coverage.

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)
https://x.com/palmerluckey/status/2013099842529005912

Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) on X
I have an opinion on the Meta layoffs that is contrary with most of the VR industry and much of the media, but strongly held. This is not a disaster. They still employ the largest team working on VR by about an order of magnitude. Nobody else is even close. The "Meta is

The Purged -- The purge began late Friday night, four days after Donald Trump returned to the White House. (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-federal-worker-layoffs-interviews/685321/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p42#a260111p42

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)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-staff-calen…

Some Amazon employees get 'Project Dawn' calendar invitation discussing upcoming job cuts
The invitation was written by Amazon executive Colleen Aubrey. It was cancelled soon after being sent, stoking confusion among some employees.

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…

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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-layoffs-stock-ai.html

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 …

Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.

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)
https://www.theblock.co/post/386942/entro…

Entropy, a16z-backed decentralized custody startup, is winding down and returning capital to investors
Entropy's "anti-capitalist anarchist" founder is winding down the firm and returning capital to investors after failing to find a scalable business model.

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…

Jim Beam Halts Production at Flagship Distillery as Whiskey and Bourbon Markets Struggle
The bourbon giant is closing its flagship distilling operation for all of 2026.

Trump admin broke spending deal agreement to halt mass layoffs, judge says (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/government-mass-lawyoffs-hearing-00695923
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p117#a251217p117

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)
https://www.businessinsider.com/vimeo-laying-off-staff-after-bi…

Vimeo is laying off staff globally after its $1.38 billion sale to Bending Spoons
Vimeo is letting go of workers globally in a new round of layoffs after selling its business to tech-holding company Bending Spoons.

Spooked by AI and Layoffs, White-Collar Workers See Their Security Slip Away (Rachel Louise Ensign/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/white-collar-workers-job-anxiety-d8f83885
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p152#a251216p152

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)
https://www.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…

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)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-…

Inside the Washington Post’s Existential Meltdown
As the Washington Post braces for a round of layoffs, staffers bemoan the lack of vision from owner Jeff Bezos and CEO Will Lewis.

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)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/military-dot-c…

The vanquishing of Military.com.
Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most.

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)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks Mozilla and Firefox still have a role to play in the web, even as things shift toward AI.

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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)
https://x.com/erikwemple/status/2015432558851301380

ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) on X
Update on turmoil at the Washington Post that I’ve been following w @BenMullin: Foreign correspondents at WaPo have sent a letter, a “collective plea,” to owner Jeff Bezos raising alarm over impending staff reductions, which are expected to land hard on international coverage.

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)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.

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)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the…

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.