Some FedEx employees say layoffs are wrecking morale and chipping away at the famous loyalty that Fred Smith built

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“Mr. Smith was a visionary,” said another former FedExer, who left in the last year out of frustration with the direction the company is headed in now.

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Twitter mistakenly filtered the accounts of Chinese activists following layoffs in Asia, report says

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Elon Musk, and anti-censorship protestors in Beijing, China.

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Salesforce is applying pressure to workers to drive down headcount

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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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Retailers are hoarding labor even as tech layoffs mount

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Meta's chief business officer is leaving after 13 years amid the company ramping up its focus on 'efficiency'

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Marne Levine is chief business officer at Meta, formerly Facebook, overseeing the company’s advertising and business partnerships. Previously, Marne was VP of Global Partnerships, Business & Corporate Development; COO of Instagram; and before that, VP of Global Policy.
Marne Levine, who has served as chief business officer at Meta until now, announced Monday she would soon leave the company.

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A Googler laid off while on vacation found out when her colleague texted her, and said it made her feel like she was 'just a number'

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Google laid off 12,000 workers in January.

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UPS plans to lay off some of its controversial weekend drivers, union reps say, as delivery companies downsize for post-pandemic life

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UPS's higher-paid, unionized workforce gave it an advantage during the pandemic. Now that package volume has slowed from pandemic highs, many logistics companies are re-evaluating the size of their workforce.

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Twilio plans to lay off 17% of staff, internal email shows

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Laid-off Google workers say the impersonal way the company let them go shows it's 'just as cutthroat corporate as anybody else'

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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Inc. speaks during an event in New Delhi on December 19, 2022
Google told affected US staff in an early-morning email on January 20 that "we no longer have a job for you."

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