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Semafor media reporter Maxwell Tani talks about cord-cutting, the importance of niches for digital media, threats from AI, and how it feels to break bad news (Scott Nover/Slate)
https://slate.com/business/2024/03/media-layoffs-max-tani-sema…

How It Feels to Be the Go-To Guy for News About Media Layoffs
Also: what he thinks will be the future of media.

Elon Musk laid off Tesla Supercharger team after $17 million in U.S. grants
https://qz.com/elon-musl-tesla-supercharger-team-layoffs-federal-grant-1851448613

Elon Musk laid off Tesla's Supercharger team after taking $17 million in federal charging grants
Tesla is the single biggest benefactor of federal EV charging grants

Ouch: https://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-conducting-more-layoffs-including-entire-supercharger-team/ I wonder how much of this is due to the ass whuppin' that Chinese manufacturers are apparently handing Tesla in China wh…

Semafor media reporter Maxwell Tani talks about cord-cutting, the importance of niches for digital media, threats from AI, and how it feels to break bad news (Scott Nover/Slate)
https://slate.com/business/2024/03/media-layoffs-max-tani-sema…

How It Feels to Be the Go-To Guy for News About Media Layoffs
Also: what he thinks will be the future of media.

Klarna claims its ChatGPT-powered AI chatbot handles two-thirds of all customer service chats and does the equivalent work of 700 full-time human agents (Christopher Zara/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91039401/klarn

Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people
Klarna, the Swedish BNPL company, released new data from its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant, saying its AI chatbots do the work of 700 full-time human agents. In 2022, the company was criticized for its handling of layoffs.

😿 GTA VI Publisher Cancels $140 Million In New Projects And Lays Off Hundreds
https://kotaku.com/gta-6-grand-theft-auto-take-two-layoffs-cancelled-1851414715

GTA VI Publisher Cancels $140 Million In New Projects And Lays Off Hundreds
Take-Two is the latest big game publisher to can developers

Wow who could have predicted that putting the fate of American EV infra in the hands of one crazed billionaire might go poorly?
https://mastodon.social/@invalidname/112363246599447498

A look at the fall of Vice, thanks to wild expenses, shady deals, greed, "fanfiction finance", and a lack of understanding of how newsrooms work (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24094310/vice-media-layoffs-bankruptcy-shan…

How Vice became ‘a fucking clown show’
Vice was once promised to become the brash young voice of news. But wild expenses, shady deals, and founder Shane Smith’s greed kept the newsroom from ever being a sustainable business.

Tesla Lays Off Entire Team Behind Brakes
https://www.theonion.com/tesla-lays-off-entire-team-behind-brakes-1851449223

Tesla Lays Off Entire Team Behind Brakes
AUSTIN, TX—In the latest round of layoffs for the company’s struggling automotive division, electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla fired the entire team behind brakes, sources confirmed Wednesday. “As we continue to rightsize the Tesla workforce, we have come to the decision that stopping the car is no longer a critical…

Paramount CFO Naveen Chopra says the company expects to take about a $1B charge in Q1 due to ongoing programming shifts and previously announced layoffs (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/02/paramount-global-billion-char…

Paramount Global Says It Will Take $1B Charge Related To Layoffs And Content Strategy Shifts
Paramount Global expects to take a $1 billion charge in the current quarter due to programming shifts and layoffs announced earlier this month.

EA plans to cut 5% of its workforce, part of a plan that includes reducing office space and sunsetting some games; EA employed 13,400 workers as of March 2023 (Alex Koller/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/ea-layoffs-…

I think most people agree that massive layoffs in CA are mostly about trying to prop up real estate prices and not the economy being bad (this is basically the best economy of all time). Every study shows WFO makes people happier and more productive. Certainly no one buys the "everyone reasonable wants to come back to the office" line so they are trying to enforce BTO by force. My not so fond memory of working in an office was having some people spend their entire days "productively" monitoring if anyone spent more than 5 minutes in the bathroom.

Hologic CFO: 'Mass layoffs are a failure of leadership' https://www.massdevice.com/hologic-cfo-mass-layoffs-are-a-failure-of-leadership/

Hologic CFO: 'Mass layoffs are a failure of leadership'
Hologic CFO Karleen Oberton had tough words for ax-dropping executives in a Wall Street Journal interview with CEO Steve MacMillan.

US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/us-media-journalism-layoffs-policy

US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.
Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.

This is a pretty interesting video on the tech industry’s #layoffs phenomenon of the last few years. There seem to be a lot of vague and hand-wavy factors, but the bottom line appears to be:
a. Profit-maximizing to satisfy investors, by reducing payroll that has grown because companies over-hired based on unrealistically rosy projections of growth during the COVID years.
b. Taking money f…

Oh man, Sony closed London Studio?!
https://gizmodo.com/sony-playstation-layoffs-london-studio-closure-1851289631

PlayStation Cancels Multiple Games Amid Massive Job Cuts
Sony announces a reduction of workforce across its first-party studios, including the closure of London Studio

WSJ EIC Emma Tucker says the paper is "shifting our center of gravity [in Asia] from Hong Kong to Singapore", leading to layoffs of "some" staff (Lucia Moses/@lmoses)
https://twitter.com/lmoses/status/1786010264015454260

Lucia Moses (@lmoses) on X
More changes at @wsj since I wrote this, with restructuring and layoffs in Asia

🦴 China’s small towns thrive as more opt out of demanding megacity life
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/23/asia-pacific/society/china-small-town-boom/

China’s small towns thrive as more opt out of demanding megacity life
As an economic downturn in China’s biggest cities prompts layoffs and competition for remaining posts, many are finding a better quality of life elsewhere.

"A great brand and publication laid to waste. That’s the Yahoo way."
via @…
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/…

Yahoo Lays Off the Leaders of Engadget
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080215/engadget-layoffs-tech-news-blogs-editorial-restructuring

The user is on vacation from work and enjoying the peace. Feeling burnt out, they plan to quit upon returning, despite not having another job lined up. They shared the company's regular layoffs and the firing of half their team have led them to this decision. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cfnxvb/

Sony plans to lay off around 900 employees, or 8% of workforce, at its PlayStation division, and close its London Studio in the UK (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24084494/sony-playstation-layoffs-2024

Sony is laying off 900 PlayStation employees
Sony is laying off around 900 PlayStation employees. The London Studio in the UK is closing fully, with employees affected worldwide.

Embracer CEO says layoffs are "something that everyone needs to get through"
Except the CEO of course. They aren't "everyone". But they get paid the most.
Join or form a Union folks and fight back for you and your coworkers careers. Stop letting CEOs and shareholders extract the wealth you build. You, the workers, are the ones that build any real value.

Embracer CEO says layoffs are "something that everyone needs to get through"
Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors said that the current reduction in workforce at the company and across the industry is "som…

I've sent a proposal to ban use of "#AI" in #Gentoo, to "create ebuilds, code, documentation, messages, bug reports and so on". This includes GitHub #Copilot.
The rationale is based on three points. Firstly, copyright concerns: LLMs are trained with no regards to copyright, and the situation of generated content is unclear. Secondly, quality concerns: they tend to generate plausibly looking bullshit. Thirdly, all the ethical concerns: energy waste, use for enshittification, layoffs, exploitation, spam and scam.
This is not something I'd like to see Gentoo associated with. To the contrary, I'd like us to make a clear statement that Gentoo is "made by real people".
So far I've gotten a one thousand and two votes in favor.
https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99042.html

Phillips announces campaign layoffs, says he will remain in race (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/17/dean-phillips-campaign-layoffs-00142053
http://www.memeorandum.com/240217/p29#a240217p29

Stellantis uses ‘mandatory remote work day’ to fire 400 | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2024/03/24/stellantis-layoffs-mandatory-remote-work-day/

Stellantis uses ‘mandatory remote work day’ to cut 400 white-collar jobs: ‘It was a mass firing of everybody that was on the call’
Affected Stellantis employees were “expected to work from home unless otherwise instructed by your manager."

Just learning about Nike laying off almost 1700 people as well (2% of their workforce) — thinking of my old computational design team and hoping they're not too impacted...
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/16/business/nike-layoffs-2-pe…

Amid all the media coverage of layoffs in tech and media, you'd be forgiven for thinking the US economy was going through a period of unusually high layoffs. But it's not. Layoffs are actually down compared to pre-pandemic levels.
About 20 million Americans are fired or laid off each year. What's different here is that the population being laid off is wealthier, whiter, and more male.

Layoffs and Discharges: Total Nonfarm
Graph and download economic data for Layoffs and Discharges: Total Nonfarm (JTULDL) from Dec 2000 to Dec 2023 about discharges, layoffs, nonfarm, and USA.

Filing: Dell cut 13,000 employees over the last fiscal year, a steeper reduction than initially announced, and had 120K staffers globally as of February 2, 2024 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Dell Layoffs Hit 13,000 Employees Over The Past Year
Dell Technologies Inc. cut 13,000 employees over the last fiscal year, a steeper reduction in headcount than initially announced.

The user is on vacation from work and enjoying the peace. Feeling burnt out, they plan to quit upon returning, despite not having another job lined up. They shared the company's regular layoffs and the firing of half their team have led them to this decision. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cfnxvb/

“Silence engineers” lmao https://newsie.social/@TheNeedling/112328344026108040

The Needling (@TheNeedling@newsie.social)
Attached: 1 image Heartbreaking: Boeing Layoffs Hit Whistleblower Assassin Department: https://theneedling.com/2024/04/01/heartbreaking-boeing-layoffs-hit-whistleblower-assassin-department/

Here it comes
#tesla #cars #ev
Tesla (TSLA) is rumored to be preparing a massive round of layoffs

Despite supposed booming economy, #Paramount , owners of #CBS TV, who reported having more than 24,000 employees in 2022, are reportedly laying off approx 800 workers.
#Oracle honcho Larry Ellison's son has been in meetings at…

Paramount Global Layoffs Begin; CEO Bob Bakish Tells 800 Departing Employees, “Your Talents Have Helped Us Advance Our Mission”
Paramount Global has begun a planned round of layoffs, with an estimated 800 U.S.-based employees affected.

@… Hast du gesehen? Das scheint der Hintergrund zu den Layoffs zu sein:
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/111171019429839700

#Apple is laying off more than 600 workers in California, marking the company’s first big wave of post-pandemic job cuts amid a broader wave of tech industry consolidation.
The iPhone maker notified 614 workers in multiple offices on 28 March that they were losing their jobs, with the #layoffs becoming effective on 2…

Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 authorize a strike; the union says the vote is partly due to planned layoffs after record profits in 2023 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/law360-staffers-vote-to-strik…

Law360 staffers vote to strike - Talking Biz News
Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 voted to authorize a strike Monday. The union says the strike is due to lack of progress at the bargaining table, unlawful tactics that violate union members’ rights and planned layoffs following record profits in 2023. Law360 Union is part of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly […]

Why are you disappointed Minister St-Onge, you're doing exactly the same thing to the CBC!! Just look in the mirror and be disappointed at yourself!
"I am extremely disappointed in Bell Canada's decision for many reasons," said Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge during a press conference.”
#Media

Phillips announces campaign layoffs, says he will remain in race (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/17/dean-phillips-campaign-layoffs-00142053
http://www.memeorandum.com/240217/p29#a240217p29

Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 authorize a strike; the union says the vote is partly due to planned layoffs after record profits in 2023 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/law360-staffers-vote-to-strik…

Law360 staffers vote to strike - Talking Biz News
Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 voted to authorize a strike Monday. The union says the strike is due to lack of progress at the bargaining table, unlawful tactics that violate union members’ rights and planned layoffs following record profits in 2023. Law360 Union is part of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly […]

Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon laid off staff and scaled back operations on the continent in January 2024 (Jesusegun Alagbe/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/amazon-prime-video-africa-layoffs/

How Prime Video failed so spectacularly in Africa
Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a lack of local content, and mediocre publicity.

L.L. Bean layoffs will hit customer service workers
https://qz.com/ll-bean-layoffs-retail-best-buy-customer-service-1851410537

L.L. Bean is laying off employees as customers move toward online shopping
The retail company said it's cutting back on customer service workers and hours

One question, just out of curiosity: Considering that in most of USA applies that (not so) funny thing called "at will employment", there is no legal rule that limits the maximum number of layoffs a company can make in a given window of time in USA, right?

Heavy layoffs of technicians (sounds like it's way more than 10%) in Tesla's service centers. Does not seem likely to help Tesla's reputation as a luxury brand. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-teslas-global-job-cuts-084556709.html

UPDATE 1-Tesla's global job cuts include leading markets US, China
Tesla's global job cuts include reducing staff in the U.S. and China, the automakers' two biggest markets, across sales, tech, and engineering, five sources ...

Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon laid off staff and scaled back operations on the continent in January 2024 (Jesusegun Alagbe/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/amazon-prime-video-africa-layoffs/

How Prime Video failed so spectacularly in Africa
Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a lack of local content, and mediocre publicity.

Cord Cutters News lays off EIC Roger Cheng, who joined in July 2023, and two staff writers, as the outlet plans to focus more heavily on its YouTube channels (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/news/cord-cutters-news-layoffs/?expand_article=1

Cord Cutters News lays off editor-in-chief, writers; will shift focus toward YouTube videos
Editor-in-Chief Roger Cheng were among the layoffs at Cord Cutters News this week, along with two staff writers.

@… Hast du gesehen? Das scheint der Hintergrund zu den Layoffs zu sein:
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/111171019429839700

Bumble reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to $273.6M, a $32M net loss, vs. $159.2M YoY, and plans to eliminate 350 roles, about 37% of its workforce (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/27/bumble-layoffs-350-employees-or-ab…

Honestly, seeing all these layoffs is depressing — and hearing that there are more to come. Though, I suppose, at this point you are used to it so much that you basically expect that the layoffs will continue until no techs work anymore.
It is additionally personally depressing because I need some income as well. And regularly I see that a lot of other people are looking for IT jobs. People who have more experience than I'll ever have. People who are often healthy and can work full-time. Most importantly, people who urgently need the job, while I keep telling myself I'll manage somehow — after all, I never needed much.
#ActuallyAutistic

Platformer’s Casey Newton on leaving Substack and surviving the great media collapse - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/5/24059524/platformer-casey-newton-substack-moderation-email-newsletters-media-layoffs<…

Platformer’s Casey Newton on leaving Substack and surviving the great media collapse
The founder of Platformer talks about building small media businesses, his decision to leave Substack, and what’s next for the media industry.

tl;dr: because everyone else is doing it, and it gooses up stock prices short-term. #layoffs
“The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?”
https://www.

The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a raft of others fired thousands of workers in January, continuing a layoff wave that began in 2022.

The original post discusses the potential career growth in cybersecurity due to AI, even amidst tech sector layoffs, with BLS data showing strong future growth in InfoSec roles. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1b0r06j/

Vice shuts down a virtual town hall after laid off employees invited to the virtual meeting inundated leadership with thumbs down emojis (Charlie Nash/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/news/vice-shuts-d

Vice Shuts Down Virtual Meeting After Staffers Flood Call With Thumbs-Down Emoji: ‘Impossible To Ignore the Emojis’
A virtual Vice Media town hall had to be prematurely shut down after staffers flooded the meeting with thumbs-down emojis in protest of mass layoffs.

Interviews with 40 developers detail reasons for layoffs in gaming, including an environment fraught with high costs and execs having little regard for staff (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/ive-never-see

'I've Never Seen It This Bad:' Game Developers Explain the Huge Layoffs Hitting Riot, Epic, and More - IGN
I spoke to over 40 game developers whose companies had been impacted by layoffs in the last year. They shared with me the explanations companies gave them for what was causing the sudden loss of their livelihood, but they also told me why those explanations didn’t always seem to match reality.

Hundreds of the remaining staff of #Vice are set to be laid off as they eliminate jobs in the digital publishing sector and cease posting via Vice.com website as current ownership prepares sale of brand to #Refinery29 in wake of a previous #bankruptcy

Vice Media Staffers ‘Scramble’ Amid Reports of Website Shuttering
Employees that spoke to TheWrap are expecting they will hear about staff layoffs prior to any announcement of the site closing

Memo: Boston public radio station WBUR CEO Margaret Low says 31 employees, or ~14% of its staff, are leaving, with 24 of them taking a voluntary buyout (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/24/business/wbur-layoffs/

WBUR lays off seven employees, as 24 staffers take buyouts
The decision to lay off staff comes two months after WBUR chief executive Margaret Low first informed staff that the station was facing financial challenges.

Sony says its PlayStation layoffs will also impact game makers Insomniac, Naughty Dog, and Guerrilla, three of its most successful subsidiaries (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/…

Sony Cuts 900 Jobs in Gaming, Shuts Down London Division
Sony Group Corp. will lay off 900 people across its video-game division worldwide, or about 8% of its employees, and close a group in London.

Memo: Boston public radio station WBUR CEO Margaret Low says 31 employees, or ~14% of its staff, are leaving, with 24 of them taking a voluntary buyout (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/24/business/wbur-layoffs/

WBUR lays off seven employees, as 24 staffers take buyouts
The decision to lay off staff comes two months after WBUR chief executive Margaret Low first informed staff that the station was facing financial challenges.

Websites that shut down make it hard for journalists to preserve writing clips, but maintaining a defunct site creates technical issues including security risks (Scott Nover/Slate)
https://slate.com/business/2024/02/messenger-gawker-vi…

Why Sites Like Gawker and the Messenger Go Blank—and Why It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
Here’s all it takes to keep articles preserved.

Filing: Microsoft says Activision planned layoffs before its merger, responding to FTC's claims that the layoffs contradict Microsoft's representations in court (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Microsoft Says Activision Had Planned Layoffs Before Merger
Activision Blizzard Inc. had plans to lay off workers before its merger with Microsoft Corp., the tech giant said in a court filing Thursday, pushing back on claims by the Federal Trade Commission about the job cuts.

NPR affiliate WAMU is shutting down local news site Dcist and laying off 15 employees to focus on audio and plans to add 10 new positions (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/23/wamu-dcist-layoffs-npr-washington

Exclusive: WAMU lays off 15 staffers, shuts down DCist
The station plans to add new audio products.

Lmao Square lays off a bunch of people, almost immediately has outage. I have zero sympathy for the leadership, and I hope the oncalls and everyone else in the trenches right now aren't getting too stressed about it.
#HugOps #Layoffs

NPR affiliate WAMU is shutting down local news site Dcist and laying off 15 employees to focus on audio and plans to add 10 new positions (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/23/wamu-dcist-layoffs-npr-washington

Exclusive: WAMU lays off 15 staffers, shuts down DCist
The station plans to add new audio products.

This a good story about how mass layoffs happened across the Tech industry the past year, and specifically at Microsoft:
tl;dr: Pandemic started, work from home productivity went up, demand for remote work products shot up, projections were revised upwards, mass hiring happened to meet expected demand. Demand suddenly flatlined, but companies were still on the hook for massive payroll and hiring incentives. Major shareholders demanded downward pressure on wages. Mass layoffs happened.<…

Sources: Vice Media executives are planning to lay off hundreds of its 900 employees over the next week, eliminating staff from its digital publishing division (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/business/vices-new-layoffs.html…

Vice’s New Owners Prepare to Slash What’s Left of Its Work Force
Vice Media, which emerged from bankruptcy last year, is planning to cut hundreds of its more than 900 employees.

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”
VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

✊ Mass layoffs hit auto industry as job cuts mount, profits surge
#automotive

Mass layoffs hit auto industry as job cuts mount, profits surge
The stepped-up attack on jobs takes place as newly released government data showed profits rose $133.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023 for an annualized rate of $3.4 trillion, the highest ever.

Latino leaders including former HUD Secretary Julišn Castro write to LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong to object to recent layoffs that hit Latinos hard (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/14/los-angeles-times-layoffs-latino-de-los

Exclusive: Latino leaders hit LA Times over layoffs
Like many media outlets in recent months, the LA Times has resorted to layoffs amid financial woes.

Filing: the FTC seeks a pause in Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition, arguing layoffs in Microsoft's gaming division contradict Microsoft's prior claims (Jessica Conditt/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ftc-accuse…

FTC accuses Microsoft of misrepresenting its Activision Blizzard plans after layoffs
The FTC is accusing Microsoft of contradicting its pledge to allow Activision Blizzard to operate independently post-acquisition.

WGA East says 26 of the 50 NowThis members represented by the union have been laid off; an internal memo says no additional layoffs are planned (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/nowthis-news-layoffs-1235912770/

NowThis Layoffs: Half of News Staff Laid Off, Union Says
Half of the editorial team of NowThis, a social media-focused news company, has been laid off, according to the union representing the staffers.

EveryNoise, a music encyclopedia using Spotify data, has ceased updating after Spotify laid off the employee running it in December, pissing off the site's fans (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/12/every-noise-shut-down-spot…

Spotify's layoffs put an end to a musical encyclopedia, and fans are pissed | TechCrunch
After Spotify data alchemist Glenn McDonald was laid off, his music encyclopedia Every Noise at Once could no longer operate fully.

The Long Beach Post lays off staffers following a switch to nonprofit ownership and amid employees' efforts to unionize; source: staff was cut from 17 to eight (Christi Carras/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts

Long Beach Post layoffs hit striking staffers
The Long Beach Media Guild announced Friday that nine Long Beach Post staffers received layoff notices after moving to unionize and going on strike.

Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon laid off staff and scaled back operations on the continent in January 2024 (Jesusegun Alagbe/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/amazon-prime-video-africa-layoffs/

How Prime Video failed so spectacularly in Africa
Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a lack of local content, and mediocre publicity.

Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was valued at $5B in April 2022, has laid off 382 employees, or 32% of its workforce (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/checkr-layoffs/

Exclusive: Checkr, the background-screening platform last valued at $5 billion, cuts 32% of workforce
Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks, has laid off 382 employees — 32% of its workforce.

Memo: Paramount starts layoffs to reduce costs; sources say ~800 employees, or an estimated 3% of its headcount, are getting cut across all divisions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/paramount-global-layoffs-ceo-bakish-…

Paramount Global Layoffs Are Underway: Read CEO Bakish Memo to Staff
Paramount Global, amid a swirl of M&A discussions, is laying off about 800 employees worldwide as it looks to trim costs.

Super disappointed with Mozilla. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/111931373599955648

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox Memo details layoffs, "strategic corrections," and a desire for "trustworthy" AI. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

[Thread] Engadget announces layoffs and a restructuring that separates news and features from reviews and buying advice (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1760714150354014545

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Memo that went out to staffers at Engadget announcing layoffs today

An interview with Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors on criticism over mass layoffs and studio closures, splitting the company into three, rising debt, and more (James Batchelor/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/embracer-ceo

Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors: "I'm sure I deserve a lot of criticism"
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inboxLars Wingefors, CEO of the Embracer Group, …

[Thread] Engadget announces layoffs and a restructuring that separates news and features from reviews and buying advice (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1760714150354014545

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Memo that went out to staffers at Engadget announcing layoffs today

Memo: Bell Media plans to sell 45 radio stations and end some TV newscasts in stations such as CTV and BNN Bloomberg, after its parent BCE announced layoffs (Sammy Hudes/The Canadian Press)
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Bell ends some CTV newscasts, sells radio stations in media shakeup amid layoffs
Bell Media is ending multiple television newscasts and making other programming cuts after its parent company announced widespread layoffs and the sale of 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.

The COO of Binance US testified in Dec. 2023 that after the SEC sued Binance in June, Binance US laid off two-thirds of its staff and revenue plunged ~75% (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/05/binance-us-layoffs-crypto-sec-cz-zha…

Binance US laid off 2/3 of staff in wake of SEC lawsuit, revenue plunged 75% after ‘near-mortal blow’
New court documents on Tuesday underscored how the U.S. arm of the embattled crypto exchange is in a precarious position.

Legal news service Law360 lays off 10% of its newsroom, per impacted journalists; the outlet's parent company LexisNexis saw record profits in 2023 (Natalie Korach/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/law360-layoffs-10-percent-newsroom-lexis-nexis/<…

Law360 Lays Off 10% of Newsroom Staff
Unionized editorial staffers held a one-day strike in opposition of unfair labor practices by parent company LexisNexis in December

The COO of Binance US testified in Dec. 2023 that after the SEC sued Binance in June, Binance US laid off two-thirds of its staff and revenue plunged ~75% (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/05/binance-us-layoffs-crypto-sec-cz-zha…

Binance US laid off 2/3 of staff in wake of SEC lawsuit, revenue plunged 75% after ‘near-mortal blow’
New court documents on Tuesday underscored how the U.S. arm of the embattled crypto exchange is in a precarious position.

Q&A with Discord CEO Jason Citron on creating a private internet, developers, community, video game origins, moderation, layoffs, Loom video meetings, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24134914/discord-

Discord CEO Jason Citron on why gaming and group chats are the future of the internet
Discord has evolved from a voice chat app into a social hub for teens and gamers. Here’s where it’s headed next.

EveryNoise, a music encyclopedia using Spotify data, has ceased updating after Spotify laid off the employee running it in December, pissing off the site's fans (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/12/every-noise-shut-down-spot…

Spotify's layoffs put an end to a musical encyclopedia, and fans are pissed | TechCrunch
After Spotify data alchemist Glenn McDonald was laid off, his music encyclopedia Every Noise at Once could no longer operate fully.

Boston public radio station WBUR is offering employees buyouts in an effort to cut ~10% of its budget; CEO says WBUR expects to also cut jobs or freeze hiring (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/26/business/wbur-buyout-emp…

WBUR offers employee buyouts to help cut costs
“We anticipate that we’ll still need to freeze some open roles and do layoffs, but we’re hoping to eliminate as few jobs as possible," the station's CEO, Margaret Low, said in announcing the buyout offer.

Memo: SiriusXM plans to cut ~160 jobs, or ~3% of its workforce, after laying off 475 employees, or ~8% of its workforce, in March 2023 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/siriusxm-layoffs-160-employees-1235908020/…

SiriusXM to Lay Off 160 Staffers, About 3% of Workforce
SiriusXM is eliminating about 160 jobs, a layoff affecting just under 3% of the satellite radio and audio streamer's workforce.

Alibaba cut ~20K staff during 2023, ending December with 219,260 employees, after cutting roughly the same number in 2022, and bought $9.5B of its stock in 2023 (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Layoffs Reduced Headcount by a Further 20,000 in 2023
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. cut its staff by roughly 20,000 over the course of 2023, adding to a spate of layoffs spanning global tech companies from Silicon Valley to Hangzhou.

Editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 walked off the job March 20 in a 24-hour work stoppage to protest layoffs; workers said Law360 cut 10% of the staff (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/law360-edito…

Law360 editorial workers stage one-day strike - Talking Biz News
Unionized editorial workers, represented by The NewsGuild of New York at LexisNexis-owned Law360, have walked off the job in a 24-hour work stoppage to protest layoffs. Law360 Union members will begin picketing at 12:30 p.m. at LexisNexis HQ, 230 Park Ave., in New York. Last month, LexisNexis executives congratulated themselves on the company achieving its […]

Amid mass tech layoffs, some workers with years of experience or deep technical expertise are having trouble getting hired again while some seek non-tech jobs (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3Ssn0rC

The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a raft of others fired thousands of workers in January, continuing a layoff wave that began in 2022.

A deep look at the reasons behind the ongoing strike at The Long Beach Post, including layoffs after staffers voted to form a union (Ben Burgis/Jacobin)
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/long-beach-post-union-busting

The Long Beach Post Is Union Busting in Broad Daylight
Striking Long Beach Post journalists say they are fighting against layoffs, corporate media consolidation, and union-busting labor law violations.

Condé Nast staff marked for layoffs in November are assigned to a "central editorial group" as they await the outcome of their union's contract negotiations (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.…

Condé Nast Purgatory: Dozens of Staffers Marked for Layoffs Bide Time at “Central Editorial Group”
While their union negotiates with top execs about the scale and terms of layoffs, employees who had been working at GQ, Vanity Fair and Bon Appétit have been consigned to a unit that, sources say, mainly includes busy work.

Source: Amazon Prime Video plans to lay off less than 5% of its staff across its European offices, as part of a restructure impacting Europe, MENA, and Africa (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/prime-video-staff-lay…

Prime Video Staff Face Layoffs In Europe As Job Consultations Begin
Prime Video is today beginning job consultations with staff in Europe. The Amazon layoffs will impact less than 5% of staff.

Layoffs.fyi: 50,000 workers have been laid off from over 200 tech companies since the start of 2024; some recently laid-off employees recall their experiences (Alex Koller/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/laid-off-t…

KQED, a Bay Area NPR and PBS affiliate, is initiating buyouts, and may have layoffs or a hiring freeze; in 2023, revenue hit $90.4M and expenses $100.9M (Amy Graff/SFGATE)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/kqed-offers-buyout-packa…

Colorado Public Radio lays off 15, primarily in audio and podcast production, and spares the newsroom of cuts; staff grew from 48 in FY 2006 to 214 in FY 2022 (Ben Markus/Colorado Public Radio)
https://www.cpr.org/2024/03/06/cpr-institutes-…

CPR institutes layoffs in audio production, podcast units
Colorado Public Radio laid off 15 employees this week, the largest cut to the public broadcaster’s payroll in at least a quarter of a century.

Instacart reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $803M vs. $804M est., plans to lay off ~250 workers, or ~7% of staff; three top execs are leaving for personal reasons (Hayden Field/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/13/instacart-layo…

Audacy rebrands its podcast division as Audacy Podcasts, sunsets Cadence13 and 2400Sports brands, and moves their content and staff to Audacy Podcasts (Caitlin Huston/Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Audacy Reorganizes Podcast Division, Sunsets Cadence13 Brand
There are no layoffs as part of the move, nor any changes to the content slates.

The Wall Street Journal laid off four people in New York and one in London on its Standards and Ethics team when it named Elena Cherney as new head of the team (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj-lays-off-f…

WSJ lays off five on standards and ethics team - Talking Biz News
The Wall Street Journal laid off five people on its standards and ethics team last week when it named Elena Cherney as the new head of standards and ethics. The layoffs affected four in New York and one in London: — Christine Glancey, deputy editor of newsroom standards, who had been with the Journal for […]