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Snap cuts 16% workforce as it aggressively doubles down on AI

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:49:43 +0000

Snap has announced its biggest restructuring in years, axing 1,000 employees and killing 300 open roles, as AI-powered small teams are already driving major results internally. Read more...

Microsoft reveals steps to give people AI skills for the future

Paul Hill — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:06:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced several new intiatives to help train the global workforce in using generative AI. It said the technology has potential but people need to know how to use it effectively. Read more...

Spotify lays off 200 team members from podcast group, combines Parcast and Gimlet studios

Anushe Fawaz — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:16:02 +0000

Spotify has confirmed it is laying off 200 team members, or 2 percent of its total workforce. The layoffs will come from its podcast division. It will also combine its Parcast and Gimlet studios. Read more...

Apple charger supplier Salcomp plans to increase its workforce significantly in India

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:56:02 +0000

Finnish company Salcomp plans to more than double its India workforce to 25,000 over the next two to three years, while also building housing arrangements and education for about 15,000 people. Read more...

Yahoo laying off 20% of its employees, most of which belong to its ad-tech unit

Anushe Fawaz — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:26:01 +0000

Yahoo has joined the list of tech companies eliminating thousands of employees for strategic reasons. In an interview, Yahoo executives inform that the company is eliminating 1600 employees. Read more...

PayPal is laying off 2,000 employees to reduce expenses

Usama Jawad — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:38:01 +0000

PayPal has become one of the latest firms to announce major layoffs. The payments platform says that it will let go of 2,000 employees in the coming weeks in a bid to reduce operating expenses. Read more...

Arm is laying off 15% of its workforce following failed Nvidia deal

Usama Jawad — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:26:01 +0000

Arm has confirmed that it is cutting nearly 1,000 jobs in the wake of its failed Nvidia deal. The removal of "redundant" personnel will primarily impact those in the U.S. and the UK. Read more...

Workforce Development Guide 2020 - Free Guide

News Staff — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:46:01 +0000

Thanks to a strong economy as of early this year, employers faced workforce shortages and difficulties in finding, recruiting and retaining staff across the care continuum, find out more. Read more...

UK: Vodafone launches IoT thermal camera to fight COVID-19

Paul Hill — Mon, 04 May 2020 13:40:01 +0000

Vodafone and Digital Barriers have developed a heat detection camera which can securely stream images to a laptop or phone with a warning if it believes someone has a fever, a symptom of COVID-19. Read more...

Amazon opens up 75,000 more jobs, initial 100,000 have been filled up

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:18:02 +0000

Last month, the firm opened up 100,000 jobs amidst increased demand. Now the firm has stated that all those positions have been filled up and a further 75,000 people will be hired. Read more...

Microsoft partners with General Assembly to curb skills gap in AI, ML, and more

Hamza Jawad — Fri, 17 May 2019 15:40:01 +0000

Microsoft is aiming to address the growing AI skills gap with its new partnership with General Assembly. Three core areas have been outlined by the companies as part of this collaboration. Read more...

Many Microsoft employees are unsatisfied with their pay according to internal survey

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:04:01 +0000

According to an internally conducted survey, many Microsoft employees believe that their base pay along with additional bonuses are not good enough in comparison to similar jobs at other companies. Read more...

Microsoft President Brad Smith reassures staff over new Trump immigration policies

Andy Weir — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:49:59 +0000

As Smith emailed staff to reassure them over new US border control concerns, Microsoft's CEO said that "as an immigrant" himself, he'd "experienced and seen the positive impact" of immigration. Read more...

Tech companies react to Trump executive order on immigration

Andy Weir — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:04:01 +0000

Many tech companies, with employees from around the world, have reacted with concern to new border controls affecting travellers from seven nations - including those who already hold US green cards. Read more...

Apple claims to achieve pay equity in the US, now pays equally for similar performance

Usama Jawad — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:10:01 +0000

In a new report highlighting diversity, Apple has stated that 32% of its workforce now consists of women, and that it has reached pay equity for all its employees in the US, regardless of ethnicity. Read more...

Despite beating its own financial expectations, Seagate will lay off 6,500 employees

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:14:01 +0000

Seagate has ended its most recent financial quarter on a high note with the company beating its own revenue and profit expectations. But it also announced it will lay off 6,500 workers. Read more...

BlackBerry: Our restructuring is over - now we're hiring

Andy Weir — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 06:59:00 +0000

BlackBerry CEO John Chen has said that the company's three-year restructuring - which has seen its workforce reduced by 60% to just 7,000 - is now over, and BlackBerry will soon begin hiring again. Read more...

Twitter says it hired "too many white and Asian men" to fill workforce

Jett Goldsmith — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:30:37 +0000

Twitter's workforce of nearly 3,000 people faces a serious diversity issue, company execs say. Recent data shows that nearly 90 percent of the social media site's employees are white or Asian. Read more...

HP to gut nearly 8% of their workforce

Fred Derf — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:42:37 +0000

Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd decided that HP's future was in the more lucrative world of corporate service contracts when they purchased Electronic Data Systems in May of this year. That move placed them in... Read more...

Dell to Cut 10% of Its Global Workforce

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:09:49 +0000

Dell Incorporated has announced plans to cut costs by reducing its global workforce by 10%. Dell currently has a global workforce of over 88,000 employees and expects to trim more than 8,000 employees over the... Read more...

Hitachi to slash workforce

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:40:04 +0000

By the end of 2008, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to lay off around 11% of its 40,000-person global workforce as part of what the company calls its long term commitment to the hard disc... Read more...

EA cuts workforce

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:04:48 +0000

As reported by various websites, Electronic Arts has notified around 350 of their employees (about 5% of their employees) that they will be no longer needed at the company due to EA being in a... Read more...

AMD tightens belt, hammers workforce

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:24:28 +0000

AMD today announced that 2,000 people, or approximately 15 per cent of staff, will lose their jobs by the end of the second quarter of 2003. The announcement is part of the company's... Read more...

Microsoft reports profit increase, plans to increase workforce

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 07:52:25 +0000

Microsoft Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit easily surpassed its bare-bones profit from a year ago, but fell far short of analysts' expectations because of telecom-related investment losses. Microsoft announced Thursday that for the quarter... Read more...