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AI-related job cuts crossed 50,000 in 2025 in the US alone, according to new data from consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (via CNBC). The firm said that companies directly cited artificial intelligence (AI) as the reason for 54,883 job cuts this year – making it one of the biggest drivers of layoffs across the…
Amazon is cutting 370 jobs, or 8.5%, at its European headquarters in Luxembourg, impacting software developers most due to AI advancements. This is company’s biggest ever job cuts in the Europe, following global layoffs back in October and a negotiated social plan. Despite the reduction, Luxembourg remains a strategic European hub for Amazon, which continues…
Amazon announced around 14,000 job cuts in October this year. Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, Beth Galetti informed the staff that the job cuts are part of the organisational changes happening across Amazon. Now, Amazon senior vice president for emerging markets Amit Agarwal has said that recent round of layoffs conducted…
Maharashtra labour minister Aakash Fundkar has now informed that the state legislative council that around 376 employees of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) were laid off at the company’s Pune campuses over the past two quarters of the current fiscal year. The disclosure was made via a hand written reply during the Vidhan Parishad session, after…
US job openings showed little movement in October, signalling a cooling labour market at a time when the Federal Reserve is weighing another interest-rate cut amid mixed economic cues.Employers posted 7.67 million vacancies in October, almost unchanged from 7.66 million in September, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released by the…
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, signalling continued stability in the labour market even as several large companies announced job cuts. According to AP, jobless claims fell by 6,000 to 216,000 in the week ending November 22, undershooting economists’ expectations of 230,000.Applications for unemployment aid — a key proxy for layoffs — remain…
Sundar Pichai (Image credit: BBC interview/ Youtube) Fears of layoffs related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) are widespread. In the US, Amazon, UPS and Target each have announced layoffs in recent weeks totaling more than 60,000 jobs cut this year. In fact, Corporate America is getting rocked by historic rounds of white-collar layoffs. As a report…
Apple has cut dozens of sales positions across its enterprise, education, and government teams in a rare workforce reduction that caught affected employees by surprise. The iPhone maker is restructuring how it sells to institutional customers, with some workers believing the move signals a strategic shift toward third-party resellers rather than direct sales.The company confirmed…
H-1B professionals often assume that strong performance, loyalty will protect them from layoffs, but immigration experts are warning that this belief is increasingly dangerous. Amid Trump’s latest H1-B visa U-turn, tech and defence is restructuring itself in the United States. Foreign workers often face the harshest consequences because the immigration clock begins ticking the moment…
Amazon announced last month that it is cutting around 14,000 corporate jobs. Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, Beth Galetti shared a blog post announcing the job cuts. In the post, Galetti said the company is making “organizational changes across Amazon” that will result in an “overall reduction in our corporate workforce…
