The job cuts by companies like Uber and GM targeting low performers show CEOs are taking a hard-line approach to management

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Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, previously told Insider,
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, previously told Insider, "Every CEO in Silicon Valley has looked at what Elon Musk has done and has asked themselves, 'Do they need to unleash their own Elon within them?'"

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Some Twitter staff reportedly found out they were laid off after they couldn't log in to their laptops or email

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Elon Musk has reportedly laid off thousands of Twitter employees since he purchased the company in October.

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Ex-Amazon managers say they were pressured to cut successful workers to meet attrition goals — and faced retribution when they resisted

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Amazon sets a goal each year for how many employees it wants to lose, voluntarily or otherwise, without managers being upset about their departure, Insider has reported.

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The housing market's biggest shocker: Your rent may actually fall this year

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The apartment market is "rapidly shifting in favor of renters," and that means tenants can expect lower rent and a lot of new perks.

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Tenants are finally gaining power in the housing market

A Google worker says some staffers found out which colleagues had been laid off when their emails bounced back

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas.
Google said on January 20 that it was laying off 12,000 workers.

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Elon Musk faces upward of $130 million in legal costs to fight laid-off Twitter workers over severance pay

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Elon Musk took over Twitter on October 27.

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A Googler laid off after 15 years said she sees it as a chance to break out of the company's 'golden handcuffs'

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A Google manager laid off after 15 years said staying at the tech giant for so long was holding her back.

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Laid-off Googlers say they're frustrated about being treated as external candidates for internal roles even though they're still being paid

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the keynote address of the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif, May 2019.
Google told laid-off workers that they could apply for other jobs at the company.

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I left my tech job due to burnout before all the layoffs started — and now I'm looking for a new role in a hyper-competitive market

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"I asked myself: Is this what I want for my life? I'm nearly 30. Do I really want to be giving up so much for my job?"

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6 charts show that tech giants like Meta and Google have still grown like crazy even after layoffs

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Big Tech CEOs Marc Benioff, Andy Jassy, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg have all led their companies to conduct layoffs in the last few months as a downturn leads to a slowdown in spending.

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