SF Politics SF City Hall Faces First Major Layoffs In 15 Years as Mayor Lurie Proposes Cutting 1,400 Jobs San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced his intention to eliminate as many as 1,400 city jobs in order to close the current budget deficit, though the vast majority of those positions are currently unfilled.
SF News Sunday Links: Yosemite Workers Hang 'Distress Flag' From El Capitan Yosemite workers hang "distress flag" from El Capitan in view of Firefall spectators; SFUSD is discussing 559 preliminary layoffs on Tuesday; and protestors were outside Tesla again.
Business & Tech Meta Bringing the Axe Down With an Estimated 4,000 Layoffs Worldwide Today The Super Bowl hangover day is particularly rough at Facebook’s parent company Meta, as nearly 4,000 employees are learning that they’ve been pink-slipped today, though it’s unknown how many Menlo Park employees are getting the boot.
Business & Tech Meta to Lay Off Around 3,600 More Employees as It Faces 'Intense Year,' Zuckerberg Says Fast on the heels of Meta's announcement that it is curtailing a significant subset of its social media operations — namely content moderation — the company says it is also going to trim its workforce by 5%.
Arts & Entertainment Pixar Laying Off More Workers Just as 'Inside Out 2' Becomes Its Highest-Grossing Film Ever In an unfortunate turn of events, Pixar is continuing with layoffs at its Emeryville animation studio in the same month that its latest release is smashing box office records and raking in cash at theaters worldwide.
Business & Tech Pixar Hit With Layoffs Affecting 14% of Its Staff As parent company Disney pushes for budget cuts, Pixar Animation Studios is going forward with some previously announced layoffs, primarily impacting staff working on series production for Disney+.
Business & Tech LinkedIn Lets Go of Hundreds More Employees In New Round of Layoffs Following two earlier layoff rounds that occurred this year, Bay Area-based LinkedIn announced Monday that it is slashing 668 more jobs, or 3% of its workforce.
SF News Gap Inc. Cutting 1,800 More Jobs, Mostly at SF Headquarters One of San Francisco's highest-profile, signature employers, Gap Inc., is once again shrinking its employee rolls, with many jobs getting cut at their Embarcadero headquarters.
Business & Tech Meta Laying Off Another 10,000 Employees, Or 13% Of Workforce It’s another 10,000 layoffs at Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, on top of the 11,000 layoffs from November, as their pandemic growth hangover collides with bad bets on Web3 and metaverse boondoggles.
Business & Tech High-Profile Tech Layoffs Continue With Thousands More Expected at Meta This Week Facebook parent entity Meta is reportedly planning to lay off thousands more employees in a second round of cuts, possibly happening as soon as this week.
SF News 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.
