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Friday Morning Constitutional: Google Lays Off 12,000 Workers

Google/Alphabet is laying off 12,000 workers, a 3.6M earthquake struck Thursday evening in Sonoma County, and the state wants you to please withdraw your Middle Class Tax Refund ASAP.

Business & Tech

Salesforce Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce, Nearly 8,000 Employees

San Francisco‘s largest private employer will be a less-large private employer, as Salesforce dropped a bomb Wednesday morning announcing that they’re laying off nearly 8,000 employees.

SF News

Meta's Mass Layoff Includes 362 Employees Based at San Francisco Office

A recent notice about the layoffs by Meta was tweeted by District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey, showing 362 of the 11,000 employees laid off worked at the company's Howard Street office in SF.

Business & Tech

Meta/Facebook Lets Go Of 11,000 Workers; Zuckerberg: 'I Got This Wrong'

Mark it: Today, November 9, 2022, is the day that the seemingly unstoppable rise of Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire was stopped.

Business & Tech

Report: Salesforce Set To Lay Off ‘As Many As 2,500’ Employees

The latest San Francisco layoff-palooza shoe to drop is a big one, as towering software company Salesforce is reportedly set to lay off thousands, in job cuts that actually already started Monday.

Business & Tech

Reports: Facebook Parent Company Meta Planning Mega-Layoffs, ‘Many Thousands’ May Get the Ax This Week

The long-feared Big Kahuna of tech-boom layoffs, massive cuts at Meta companies Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, could arrive as soon as Wednesday, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like 2001.

Business & Tech

Elon Musk’s Twitter Begs Some Laid-Off Employees to Return, Amidst Botched, Delayed $8 Blue-Check Rollout

The Elon Musk era stumbled out of the gate and stepped on a few rakes this weekend, as the skeleton crew still around was forced to delay the new $8 blue check system, and management are begging some freshly canned staff members to return.

Business & Tech

Twitter Layoffs Cut Across Many Divisions; Musk Is Whining About Activists Whom He Blames For Advertiser Exodus

The layoff sweep at Twitter was nothing if not chaotic and cruel, and after months of speculation and hollow denials about what was to come, employees are left either holding the bag or waiting to find out what their severance packages look like.

Business & Tech

Twitter Building Shuttered Until Monday as Employees Get Emailed Pink Slips; Lawsuit Filed Over Layoff Notification

Twitter employees in San Francisco, New York, Dublin and elsewhere got their emails Thursday night and into Friday morning informing them whether or not they still had jobs with the company.

Business & Tech

Lyft and Stripe Both Lay Off Hundreds of Employees, Citing Economy

A day ahead of expected layoffs at Twitter that will thoroughly gut the company as we know it, San Francisco-based Lyft announced the laying off of 13% of its workforce, and South San Francisco-based Stripe is cutting 14% of its workforce.

Business & Tech

Musk Reportedly Laying Off 50% of Twitter Staff, Layoffs to Begin Friday

Black Friday is coming a few weeks early at Twitter, as reports come in that Elon Musk will lay off 50% of the company starting Friday, which hardly bodes well for the new paid blue-check system which is supposed to launch Monday.

Business & Tech

Gap Inc. Lays Off 500 Employees at Corporate Offices In SF and NY

The layoff announcements continue this week with San Francisco-based Gap Inc., which managed to have a stellar year amid high consumer spending in 2021, followed by a serious slump so far this year.

Business & Tech

SF-Based Twilio Lays Off Around 850 Employees In Effort Toward Profitability

It's more bad news on the tech-layoff front Wednesday as San Francisco-based cloud-communications software firm Twilio announced in an SEC filing that it would be laying off 11% of its global staff, or around 800 people.

Business & Tech

More Layoffs Come to Netflix, With 300 People Losing Jobs Today

After a rough start to the year and a severe drop-off in subscribers after pandemic binge-watching ended — and after pulling out of Russia — Netflix is doing more belt-tightening, with layoffs hitting 3% of its staff on Thursday.

Business & Tech

Alaska and American Airlines Announce Bay Area Layoffs

Joining the series of layoff notices sent to airline employees at multiple companies in the last month, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines have given the heads-up to hundreds of local staff that their jobs could be on the line.

Business & Tech

United Airlines Sends Furlough Notices To Almost Half Its U.S. Employees

In a sign of growing trouble for the airline industry, United Airlines has sent mandated 60-day job-cut warnings to 36,000 of its employees — or nearly half of its U.S. staff.

Business & Tech

Uber Lays Off Another 3,000 Workers, Bringing This Round to 6,700

Twelve days after announcing the slashing of 3,700 jobs, Uber says it is laying off another 3,000 workers and closing one of its San Francisco offices entirely.

SF News

Thursday Morning What's Up: Bay Area Job Losses Top 90,000

An explosive warehouse fire in San Leandro may have been caused by a "honey oil" operation, the woman shot by cops in Half Moon Bay has been ID'd, and anti-vaxxers are leading some "reopen" protests.

Business & Tech

Airbnb Lays Off 1,900 People, Or 25 Percent of Its Workforce

As the global travel industry remains decimated with little hope of a fast turnaround, Airbnb is cutting jobs much like other big SF tech companies and startups have been doing in recent weeks.

Business & Tech

Lyft Is Laying Off Nearly 1,000 Workers, Furloughing 300 More

Lyft just announced that it will lay off 17 percent of its workforce, or 982 people, in order to address losses that it faces due to pandemic lockdowns. And employees say they were mistakenly all sent an email earlier this week using an insensitive name for the cost-cutting project.

Business & Tech

Startup Boom Starting to Bust, as Layoffs Sweep Silicon Valley

The robot reckoning may be afoot, as the New York Times finds that startups have laid off more than 8,000 people in the last four months.

Business & Tech

Uber's Layoff Tally Tops 1,100 As CEO Announces 'Final' Round

Uber just announced the elimination of another 350 jobs from its Eats, autonomous vehicles, safety, insurance, and other teams. After two previous rounds of layoffs in July and September, this brings the company's total layoffs in recent months to 1,185.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Sprig Shuts Down Its Once Popular Food Delivery App

Another one bites the dust in the food delivery realm: Sprig announced Friday that their SF-based, warm meal delivery service is shutting down, capping off four years for one of the main players

SF News

6,900 People Lost Their Jobs In SF In January

Unemployment remains at just 3.2 percent in San Francisco as of the end of January, however that is up from 2.9 percent in December, and a whopping 6,900 lost their

SF News

Twitter Confirms Layoffs Of About 350 Employees

Twitter confirmed rumors Thursday that the company would be making significant staff cuts — cuts that are actually deeper than expected. As previously reported, Bloomberg got early word that for the second year in

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