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Amazon Employees Criticize CEO Jassy’s AI-Driven Job Cutting Plan

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees Tuesday that AI will shrink the company’s corporate white-collar workforce over the next few years, citing “efficiency gains” as the driving force.Amazon employees weren’t having it.Across internal Slack channels, Amazon’s white-collar workers tore into Jassy’s message, taking aim at his leadership and unapologetic push…

How CEOs Talk About AI and Its Impact on Jobs Could Scare Employees

CEOs sending scary AI memos to employees may be doing more harm than good.In recent months, some company leaders have gone public with strikingly bleak outlooks, predicting generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini will displace wide swaths of white-collar workers and shrink job opportunities for recent college…

A Small Biz Owner Might Lay Off Most Employees — and Isn’t Hiding It

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ralph Walters, 50, the owner of SBS Solar in Missoula, Montana. It’s been edited for length and clarity. BI has verified the number of employees and their salaries. Representatives for the White House did not respond to BI’s request for comment.I…

Deloitte’s New Well-Being Perk Offers Employees 00 to Spend on Lego

Surviving the gruelling hours and high demands of a job in consulting isn’t easy.Deloitte has a new solution to help its employees handle the stress: Lego.The Big Four professional services firm has updated its long-running well-being subsidy program to include “Legos and puzzles” on a list of items that Deloitte…

Google Offers Buyouts to US-Based Employees on Marketing, Comms Teams

Google expanded its return-to-office mandate and offered voluntary buyouts for some US-based employees on Tuesday, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.Employees on Google’s Core, Marketing, Research, Knowledge & Information (K&I), and Communications teams all received the buyout offers. K&I includes teams working on Search, ads and commerce.The…

Dell Employees Say RTO Has Been Open to Interpretation

After years of ramping up its RTO push, Dell called all its employees living near an office back to their desks full time starting March 3, saying it expected employees to do “a regular working day in the office” with “flexibility as needed.”Three months in, 10 Dell employees based in…