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Layoffs and Job Reductions
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Tech industry layoffs are accelerating, and executives have been quick to say it’s because their companies are doing more with artificial intelligence, even when there may be more to it.
June 1, 2026
· 1 min read
Artificial Intelligence
A French multinational, Schneider Electric, decided to use artificial intelligence in manufacturing to make workers more productive, rather than to replace them. Here’s how that’s going.
May 29, 2026
· 1 min read
Organized Labor
The former workers were among a group of employees who confronted the company’s head of human resources about layoffs last fall.
May 28, 2026
· 1 min read
Freedom of Speech and Expression
Ball State University is the latest institution to agree to pay workers who lost their jobs over their posts about the conservative activist.
May 27, 2026
· 1 min read
Meta Platforms Inc
On a dark day of layoffs at Meta, one employee responded by creating an internal radio station that plays songs about job cuts — generated by artificial intelligence, of course.
May 21, 2026
· 1 min read
Meta Platforms Inc
Employees have signed petitions against being tracked by A.I. and were trying to figure out who had been let go on Wednesday, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform…
May 21, 2026
· 1 min read
Artificial Intelligence
The company announced the changes two days before it plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees.
May 19, 2026
· 1 min read
Labor and Jobs
A challenging time proved to be fertile ground for experimentation that continues to pay off.
June 8, 2023
· 1 min read
New York City
The unemployment rate for Black New Yorkers rose to 12.2 percent in the first quarter of the year, while the white unemployment rate dropped to 1.3 percent, a new report…
April 28, 2023
· 1 min read
Shopping and Retail
Companies that ramped up hiring in areas like technology over the past few years are cutting back as customers slow their spending.
January 26, 2023
· 1 min read
