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Laid-Off Microsoft Employee Relearns How to Job Hunt After 31 Years

Mike Kostersitz spent 31 years building a career at Microsoft. Then, at age 60, he had to do something he hadn’t done in decades: Find a job.In May, Kostersitz, a principal product manager lead working on Azure, said his team had a meeting with a senior leader that seemed to…

Leaked Documents Show Rivian’s Severance Package to Laid-Off Employees

Rivian, the California-based EV automaker, is putting its employees who were affected by the company’s most recent round of layoffs on paid administrative leave for the next 60 days, according to documents obtained by Business Insider.CEO RJ Scaringe told employees in an internal memo sent October 23 that the company…

Laid-Off Amazon Workers Turn to TikTok and LinkedIn

One woman is processing being laid off while on a tropical vacation. Another’s “get ready with me” video turned sour after she said she’d learned her fate.With as many as 14,000 Amazon employees set to lose their jobs, some workers who said they were laid off by the e-commerce company…