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Microsoft has agreed to convert 77 contract staff at ZeniMax into unionized employees, as part of negotiations with the CWA-affiliated ZeniMax Workers United (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: Microsoft has agreed to convert 77 contract staff at ZeniMax into unionized employees, as part of…
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Alphabet's life sciences unit Verily lays off about 15% of its staff, or more than 200 employees, and discontinues work on several products (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Alphabet’s life sciences unit Verily lays off about 15% of its staff, or more…
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Supply chain software startup Flexport lays off 20% of its global workforce, or roughly 640 employees; the company was valued at $8B in February 2022 (Riley de León/CNBC)
Riley de León / CNBC: Supply chain software startup Flexport lays off 20% of its global workforce, or roughly 640…
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Sources: Parler's parent company laid off most of its staff and chief executives over the last few weeks, leaving the company with approximately 20 employees (Makena Kelly/The Verge)
Makena Kelly / The Verge: Sources: Parler’s parent company laid off most of its staff and chief executives over the…
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Sources: Cloud Software Group, the parent company of Citrix and Tibco, begin layoffs impacting thousands of employees (Wade Tyler Millward/CRN)
Wade Tyler Millward / CRN: Sources: Cloud Software Group, the parent company of Citrix and Tibco, begin layoffs impacting thousands…
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Scale AI, which helps companies label data for ML algorithms and was valued at $7.3B in Apr. 2021, lays off 20% of its staff; it had ~450 employees in Feb. 2022 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Scale AI, which helps companies label data for ML algorithms and was valued at $7.3B in…
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Sources: some former Twitter employees in the US finally received their official severance agreements, but offering only one month of base pay as severance (Kylie Robison/Fortune)
Kylie Robison / Fortune: Sources: some former Twitter employees in the US finally received their official severance agreements, but offering…
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Sources: Amazon plans to lay off over 17,000 employees, more than the 10,000 workers it expected in November 2022, with new cuts starting over the coming weeks (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon plans to lay off over 17,000 employees, more than the 10,000 workers it expected in…
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Report: Twitter is closing its Seattle office, the company's second-largest engineering hub outside of San Francisco, asking employees to work from home instead (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Report: Twitter is closing its Seattle office, the company’s second-largest engineering hub outside of San Francisco,…
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