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A talent CEO says all the recently laid-off tech workers wading through corporate America’s sluggish job market should look to one growing area: data centers. Loading audio narration… Carrie Charles is the CEO and cofounder of Broadstaff, a staffing and recruiting firm that works with companies like Oracle and Verizon.…
Snap has become the latest tech company to announce sweeping layoffs. Loading audio narration… In a memo to employees released in a regulatory filing on Wednesday, CEO Evan Spiegel said Snap would cut 1,000 employees, about 16% of its global workforce, citing “rapid advancements” in AI and “small squads” using…
These days remote work is hard to come by — and at some firms, employees now risk losing equity or promotions if they don’t show up in person. Loading audio narration… Superhuman, however, is offering extra benefits to those who show up IRL more often, rather than penalizing those who…
As lines snake across airports and Transportation Security Administration workers clock in for another day without pay, a major turning point in the ongoing chaos looms on March 27. Loading audio narration… Come Friday, around 47,000 TSA workers are set to miss yet another paycheck, according to their union, the…
Workers leave Big Tech for OpenAI. They fan out across a growing ecosystem of startups. Rinse and repeat.Since it launched ChatGPT, the Sam Altman-led company has quickly become a magnet for AI talent. It has pulled hundreds of researchers and engineers from competitors like Google, Meta, and Apple, according to…
Box CEO Aaron Levie says tech companies won’t be the last to see AI budget balloon. Loading audio narration… “This will of course start in engineering, where we already know developers can run multiple agents in parallel, or have projects going over night,” Levie wrote on X. “But this eventually…
Much of the debate about AI’s impact on the labor market focuses on whether — and how many — jobs it will eliminate. Loading audio narration… But Clara Shih, the former CEO of Salesforce AI, says the bigger risk for many workers is actually lower pay.”While full AI role displacement…
Elizabeth Schwartz Cohen lost count of how many times she found herself glued to her phone in her Tel Aviv apartment in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, bracing for the next missile alert and the scramble to a shelter. Loading audio narration… Now, Tel Aviv is under fire once…
Andrew Yang says the US is taxing the wrong thing as artificial intelligence begins to reshape the labor market.”You tend to tax things that you want to discourage, that you want less of,” the Forward Party founder and former presidential candidate said in an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box on…
Major US airports are calling for donations of food and other essentials to TSA workers who are going without paychecks amid the partial government shutdown.In an X post on Wednesday, Denver International Airport wrote, “DONATIONS NEEDED.””Support the dedicated TSA employees working without pay by donating $10 and $20 grocery store…
