layoffs

Jack Dorsey’s mea culpa on Block layoffs: ‘We overhired’

Jack Dorsey is taking responsibility for a key mistake behind Block’s sweeping job cuts.”Yes we over-hired during COVID,” the Block cofounder and CEO wrote Friday on X, responding to criticism that the company’s recent layoffs reflected managerial incompetence.The admission comes a day after Dorsey announced he was slashing nearly half…

Andrew Yang says mass white-collar layoffs are closer than people think

Expect to see your local Starbucks soon be full of middle-aged former office workers, says Andrew Yang.The Forward Party founder and former presidential candidate said AI “will kick millions of white-collar workers to the curb in the next 12 – 18 months” in a post on his Substack on Monday.Yang…