NPR's chief executive announced the network would lay off roughly 10% of its current workforce – at least 100 people – and eliminate most vacant positions. CEO John Lansing cited the erosion of advertising dollars, particularly for NPR podcasts, and... — read more
Custom Brands Group to cease Jacksonville operations, layoff 79 employees
Salt Lake City-based Custom Brands Group is shuttering its Jacksonville operation and laying off 79 employees, the company announced Friday. Custom Brands Group, a subsidiary the Hunter Douglas Fabrication Co., filed a Worker Adjustment and... — read more
A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/tech-industry-layoffs/
DocuSign to lay off 10% of its workforce
E-signature software company DocuSign on Thursday announced plans to cut around 10% of its workforce. The cuts are on top of DocuSign’s previous round of layoffs last September, which affected 9% of its... — read more
Layoff Anxiety (San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Austin, Dallas)
"With thousands of layoffs affecting workers both in and out of tech, layoff anxiety is rampant across the... — read more
Yahoo Double Decimation
https://www.thelayoff.com/yahoo
JP Morgan
https://www.thelayoff.com/jpmorgan-chase-and
HarperCollins layoffs 2023
Five percent of U.S. workforce will be laid off by end of June.
Upstart Holdings Lays off 365 Employees - 2023 Layoffs
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/upstart-to-lay-off-365-employees-20-of-staff-271675176017 #layoffs2023
"Unemployment Falls to 3.4%, Lowest in 53 Years, Jobs Report Shows"
"U.S. added 517,000 jobs in January, snapping five-month string of slowing employment growth." https://www.wsj.com/articles/january-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-economy-growth-2023-11675374490?mod=livecoverage_web
Desktop Metal Layoffs 2023
Here it goes, nicely packed in a PR release. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230202005283/en/Desktop-Metal-Announces-Update-on-Cost-Reduction-Plans-for-2023-to-Accelerate-Path-to-Profitability
Mindstrong Health Layoffs
Mindstrong Health is cutting jobs in Menlo Park. A big cut for them. 2023 is brutal so far... https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/02/02/mental-health-tech-google-recruit-firm-slash-bay-area-job-cut-layoff/
Quora Layoffs 2023
https://quorablog.quora.com/Company-update?ch=10&oid=97805843&share=1139ae3a&srid=XzV2&target_type=post
OLX Lays off 1500
https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/prosus-operated-olx-to-fire-at-least-1500-employees-globally/2964475/ Again, this is not US Based but here it goes anyway
Glovo is Laying Off 6% of the workforce
https://sifted.eu/articles/glovo-lays-offs-news/ This is in EU, not USA but here it is...
Pinterest layoffs 2023
https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1620109174670561307 "Pinterest is expected to trim its workforce as a wave of companies announce layoffs in response to an increasingly challenging macroeconomic environment, DA Davidson analyst Tom Forte says... — read more
Impossible Foods to Lay Off 20%
This is per Bloomberg, Impossible Foods are planning a 20% layoff https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/impossible-foods-plans-to-lay-off-about-20-of-employees
"Big Tech Using Layoffs to Rein In Workers"
“Controlling labor costs via periodic layoffs is like breathing for Silicon Valley: cyclical, necessary for life,” Malcolm Harris, author of the forthcoming book “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World,” told me. The layoffs... — read more
"Goldman Sachs says 4 cities likely to see a 2008-style housing crash: report"
"The 'overheated' markets mentioned in the note were: San Jose, California; Austin, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Diego... — read more
Disney?
The initial exuberance and relief following BI’s return as Disney CEO has been replaced by anxiety as speculation about a pending corporate restructuring is intensifying — and with it, rumors about the layoffs that are likely to... — read more
IBM again...
https://www.thelayoff.com/international-business-machines https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/tech/ibm-layoffs-intl-hnk/index.html
Is Apple next?
https://www.thelayoff.com/apple
PagerDuty Layoffs to Slash 7% of Workforce in ‘Right Path Forward’
PagerDuty has confirmed layoffs impacting 7% of its workforce as part of its ongoing efforts to drive efficient growth and expand operating... — read more
Hard landing?
"BofA warns that the US economy will start to lose 175,000 jobs per month during Q1 of 2023, expects a ‘harder landing’ rather than a softer... — read more
"Unusually high number of stocks halted at NYSE open"
Not a problem....? https://seekingalpha.com/news/3927198-unusually-high-number-of-stocks-halted-at-nyse-open
Is Healthcare and Biotech next?
Silicon Valley, Finance, and now Healthcare and Biotech?
Merck
https://www.thelayoff.com/merck-and https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/merck-kgaa-shrinks-us-research-team-layoffs-continue-batter-biotech-industry
Ascension Health Care
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ascension-confirms-layoffs-in-texas/
"Hit By Layoffs, Thousands Of Indian IT Professionals Struggle To Stay In US"
https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/hit-by-layoffs-thousands-of-indian-it-professionals-struggle-to-stay-in-us-3715924
Big Investor Urges Alphabet to Cut Labor By 20 Percent
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kQsWdXN https://fortune.com/2023/01/23/christopher-hohn-rishi-sunak-old-boss-tci-fund-management-letter-to-alphabet-sundar-pichai/amp/
US Supreme Court About to Eviscerate the Right to Strike
"The right to strike is on trial in the Supreme Court. At stake is a 64-year-old precedent that shields workers and unions from state lawsuits while they pursue unfair labor practice claims in the federal National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). If... — read more
Spotify layoffs January 2023
Layoffs at Spotify have just been announced. Looks like nobody is safe from the tech curse of 2022-2023.
Wayfair...again
https://www.thelayoff.com/wayfair https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/wayfair-cutting-10-workers-as-layoffs-mount
Alphabet Google (12,000 Jobs)
https://www.thelayoff.com/google https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/business/google-alphabet-layoffs.html
#LaborSpring: National Teach-ins and Events, March 20-April 21, 2023
In the wake of the global pandemic, many U.S. working people are organizing for a multiracial democracy in which they have more power on the job and in their communities. Their efforts build, in part, on a newfound public appreciation for labor... — read more
Silicon Valley... and now Finance
Twitter, Meta, Google, SalesForce, Microsoft, Tesla Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, BNY Mellon Let's pretend we couldn't see it... — read more
TuSimple 2022 layoffs
Autonomous trucking technology company TuSimple plans to cut a chunk of its workforce, potentially as early as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited “people familiar with the... — read more
Pluralsight layoffs December 2022
Pluralsight cut around 20 percent of employees this week (around 400 people). Layoffs at tech and tech-related companies continue...