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Microsoft’s Wicresoft to Exit China, Cutting 2,000 Jobs as Outsourcing Ends
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Federal budget cuts hit DC tech sector as Mitre Corp announces 442 layoffs. Latest sign of growing uncertainty in government contracting landscape. #GovContracting #TechLayoffs https://buff.ly/VxYQAsw
Chaedrol's Washington Horizon · Mitre Corp. latest to announce layoffs as federal contract cuts spark broader DC job lossesMitre Corp., one of Greater Washington’s largest government technology contractors, is laying off 442 employees—about 4.9 percent of its workforce—amid the fallout from the Trump administration’s cancellation of billions in federal contracts, as reported by the *Washington Business Journal.* The layoffs, which take effect 3
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >
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Automattic Trims Workforce amid Legal Storm, Strategic Shift toward Paid Services
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Ah, the future of layoffs, brought to you by the tech overlords who finally realized they can't run on endless free snacks and bean bags 
https://www.indmoney.com/blog/us-stocks/meta-google-salesforce-announce-layoffs-2025 #futureofwork #techlayoffs #technews #HackerNews #ngated
#Meta to lay off 5% of workforce, about 3000 people.
Side note: Please don’t believe a company when it cites “low performers” when it’s laying off hundreds or thousands of people. These companies start with a target head count, then work backward to figure out who to lay off. When a department gets notice about their new head count target, they *have* to lay off some number of people, many of whom are *not* poor performers. Citing “low performance” is a way to shift responsibility from poor management (or often, simple greed) to the workers, who are often victims.
abc7news.com · Thousands of Meta employees to be laid off, company saysFacebook's parent company said it planned to cut 5% of its workforce; affected workers will be notified by email
https://www.europesays.com/1714760/ A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs #america #evergreens #layoffs #science #TechLayoffs #TechCrunch2023Recap #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
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Where Are Laid Off Tech Employees Going? | CNBC
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Struggling to meet deadlines and ship quality products fast enough?
The knee-jerk reaction might be to throw more people at the problem — but that’s not the solution.
Larger teams cause more communication complexity and create a higher risk of eventual layoffs.
Here’s why smaller teams actually move faster: https://link.testdouble.com/oag
Test Double · Why you need fewer developers than you think you doIt's a myth that more developers will speed up delivery. You can achieve more with less with simpler processes, simpler communication and fewer cross-team dependencies – which is why smaller teams …