SF News HP Job Cuts Loom Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard plans on exfoliating some 9,000 jobs this year to save "about $500 million to $700 million a year" via the implementation of automated data centers. Associated Press (via CBS
SF News Old Dude Sues Google Over Age Discrimination Brian Reid, 60, claims that he was laid off from Google in 2004, at the age of 54, because he was too old. He was told at the time of the layoff that
SF News Viz Media Snips Staff Viz Media, one of the biggest publishers of creepy manga in the U.S., pruned some of its staff on Wednesday. Publishers Weekly reports that "as many as 55 people were laid off
SF News City Layoffs Are Sexist and Racist, Says Supe Eric Mar At an event hosted by the League of Young Voters, Supervisor Eric Mar had some provoking comments about recent city worker layoffs. Though the plan to layoff some 15,000 city workers then
SF News More Chronicle Layoffs While news of another batch of layoffs at the Chronicle isn't particularly newsworthy in this economy, the California Media Workers Guild posted the following missive yesterday. Chronicle Unit Chair Michelle Devera issued the
SF News Chronicle (Reporter) Doesn't Believe In Publishing News That Hurts Their Feelings We're almost certain that more esteemed colleagues like Steven T. Jones and Joe Eskenazi didn't come across a request from a Chronicle reporter to unpublish their items on yesterday's involuntary layoffs But we
SF News Poll: What Will All of That SF Chron Management Do All Day? While editorial staff gets pruned today, we're hearing from Chronicle guild members that "No one thinks they're gonna go through with any manager layoffs." (Update: Lesley Guth, Chron manager, was laid off this
SF News Chronicle Layoffs Today It's rumored that 20 newsroom-based Media Workers Guild employees at the San Francisco Chronicle will be involuntarily laid off today. We're told that a union steward sent a message to its members recommending
SF News Oakland Mayor Seeking Federal Grant to Avoid Laying Off Police Officers The latest Oakland City Budget document dropped yesterday, and in it Mayor Ron Dellums is proposing laying off 140 of the city's 803 police officers in order to help meet an estimated $80
SF News Sacramento Bee Snips 128 Jobs Sigh. The Sacramento Bee tells AP that they plan on "cutting 128 jobs, or 11 percent of its workforce, as revenue continues to fall in the beleaguered newspaper industry." The death toll by
SF News SF Chronicle Management Cut? Insiders at SF Chronicle, according to SFBG, say that "it wants to cut 150 union workers, most of them in the newsroom." Egads. That is to say, half of the newsroom would be
SF News Apple Layoffs? Owen Thomas at Valleywag has word that there might -- might! -- be "'major layoffs'" at Apple today. According to VW tipsters, "'all sales teams have mandatory meetings today'" and "'HR booked conference
SF News "Union In Talks To Save San Francisco Chronicle" According to a CBS 5/KCBS/AP report, "Union leaders at the San Francisco Chronicle said they were drafting a compromise to a management proposal that offers severe job cuts that officials indicated
SF News Schwarzenegger set to send layoff notices on Tuesday Budget or not, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is all set to send layoff notices (warnings) to 20,000 state workers. According to the Sacramento Bee, "those with the least seniority among the approximately 100,
SF News Job Losses Largest Decline Since 1974 More grim news from the employed sector. According to the Chronicle (not AP!?), "January's payroll job losses were the steepest one-month decline since the end of 1974 when the nation was battling another
SF News Google Prunes 100 Jobs In the throes of our failing economy, Google trimmed 100 jobs and close three offices this week. According to reports, 100 full-time recruiters were shown the door. Google also shutdown three engineering offices
SF News Logitech Layoffs With corporate offices in Fremont and Mountain View, Logitech announced it will hand out 500 pink slips to employees this week. The cuts will affect middle management and higher, effectively cutting 15% of
SF News Stacey's Demise Regardless what you think about print publishing, Stacey's Books was a favorite. (Its foreign section alone seemed endless!) So after months of guessing when it will close its doors, Stacey's finally told its
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Reveals Demise in Blog Post? In an odd and somewhat unprofessional manner, the Chronicle announced yesterday that, well, it's imploding. (While layoffs at the Chron are no surprise, the dialing down of SFGate as a whole, however, is.
SF News Bank of America to Prune Up to 35,000 Job Bank of America (who used to be based in San Francisco) has announced plans to cut anywhere from 30,000 to 35,000 jobs over the next three years. As the company sucks
SF News 400 SF City Workers Out of a Job After yesterday's rare appearance before the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his team's $118 million in proposed "mid-year solutions." Part of said solution will be to eliminate 400 city jobs. While
SF News WaMu to Cut 1,600 Bay Area Jobs It was announced today that Washington Mutual , which was shoved under the thumb of federal regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase in September, will close its Pleasanton campus and eliminate hundreds of San
SF News San Francisco to Suck in 2009 Awful news, everyone! Most Bay Area executives believe that the economy will get worse through 2009. But wait, it gets worse! The Bay Area Council surveyed 509 executives, and the results show that
SF News Yahoo Announces Layoffs It was officially announced today that at least 1,500 jobs are set to get cut at Yahoo, which effectively hacks off 10 percent of the Sunnyvale Web portal's staff. This most recent
