SF News Google Laying Off 4,000 People in Motorola Unit, Purchases Frommer's After acquiring Motorola Mobility in May, Google is now shutting down a third of the division's 90 locations and laying off 4,000 employees, representing 20% of the total employees in the unit.
SF News Breaking: HP Laying Off 27,000 In Massive Cutbacks According to AP reports this afternoon, Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard is slashing 27,000 jobs in an effort to save over $3 billion annually. The huge loss of jobs comes nine months after the
SF News Yahoo Layoffs To Start This Week Thousands of loyal Yahoo employees will receive layoff notices starting this week. Research and marketing department will be the first to get hit, reports All Things D. "The ultimate goal, said multiple sources,
SF News 26 Teachers Arrested in Sacramento While Protesting Education Cuts Hot on the heels of news that San Francisco USD will be laying off 139 educators at the end of the school year, comes a report from Sacramento that over two dozen teachers
SF News Oakland School Board Approves Hundreds of Pink Slips for Teachers Another blow for public education unfurled in the East Bay last night. The Oakland School Board approved 500 layoffs notices for Oakland teachers. Said notices will go to 231 elementary school teachers, 41
SF News UC Berkeley Cuts 150 Jobs Days after Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cutting $500 million from the UC system next year, UC Berkeley plans to prune 150 managers and support staff this year. This comes on top of the
SF News Wells Fargo to Layoff 3,800 Wells Fargo, the fourth largest bank in the U.S., will eliminate some 3,800 jobs, around 1.4 percent of its workforce. Sad. We like the Farg. (Now, we use small credit
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
