Headlines about layoffs don't mean you're going to lose your job

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A laid-off Meta worker says she's struggling after not getting the 16 weeks of severance her fellow employees received: 'I'm going through my kids' closet and selling their old clothes'

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Brit Levy completed about seven months of her year-long program with Meta before they laid her off.

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It's official: Apple is still the only tech giant to have avoided recent major layoffs or cost cuts

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Apple CEO Tim Cook didn't mention cuts in Thursday's earnings call.

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Watch out, managers: The job cuts are coming for you next

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Layoffs and executive pay reductions at companies like Meta, Intel, and FedEx suggest managers may be next to go after thousands of workers were laid off.

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Why thinking of your work as a family can be so toxic and what you can do instead

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Quiet layoffs are underway.
Layoffs across the tech sector have shown that viewing work as your family can have serious downsides.

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Meta's layoffs were expensive — it may have spent more than $88,000 per employee to cut 11,000 from the ranks

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg cut 13% of the company's workforce in November.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a U-turn on metaverse spending as Reality Labs is hit with a new 'efficiency' mantra

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Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook's first ever Meta Store

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Mark Zuckerberg declares 2023 'the year of efficiency.' More Meta layoffs are likely.

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Mark Zuckerberg said in Meta's fourth quarter earnings release that 2023 will be the "year of efficiency.'

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FedEx is laying off more than 10% of managers in a cost-cutting crusade. Read the full memo from the CEO.

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After frantically cutting costs for the last several months, FedEx announced it's laying off about 10% of its officers and directors.

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A tech CEO apologized for quoting Martin Luther King Jr. when announcing layoffs, calling it 'inappropriate and insensitive'

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PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada said the quote she had included from Martin Luther King Jr. was "inappropriate and insensitive."

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