Layoff

Layoffs have hit companies from American Airlines to Meta to Intel this year amid a backdrop of cost-cutting and technological change.

Brittney Ball is struggling to find work nine months after her Meta layoff. She's using this time to start her own tech company and go to college.

Meta boomerang employee Devang Sharma shares why he returned after a 2023 layoff and offers advice for rejoining a former employer.

GM has temporarily cut 5,500 roles, 1,750 of which will be laid off indefinitely. The cuts were centered in Detroit, Warren, and Spring Hill.

LinkedIn laid him off, so he decided to finish his science fiction novel. Now he's struggling to find a new job.

A former Microsoft employee has been job hunting since May. With no offers, he's now preparing to move cross-country to live with his family.

Alaina Appleman lost her Big Tech job in Singapore. She chose to stay abroad and reinvent her career around her passion for travel.

The consulting giant is cutting staff it can't reskill in the AI era, with plans to increase overall head count.

Jasmine Lee says going through two layoffs in two years felt like a quarter-life crisis. Loved ones, a therapist, and a support network helped her.

I was laid off from my job in the entertainment industry a year ago. This summer, I worked — and stayed — at a summer camp. It was the reset I needed.

A 53-year-old job seeker who's been looking for work for 14 months says he thinks companies are ruling out older workers too soon.

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Scale AI says rapid hiring for its Generative AI division led to bloat and losses. It's now refocusing on other areas.

Kosi Pierre-Louis was told he was laid off from Microsoft on May 13. He's not actively applying for jobs right now and considering music as a career.

The two major job-seeking platforms are slashing 1,300 employees and restructuring for AI.

Donald King filmed himself getting laid off from PwC and posted it to TikTok. He's used the exposure and his Big Four background to launch a startup.

Companies' middle manager layoffs are both a management philosophy and a way to cut costs. The trend started with Big Tech, and has now hit Walmart.

Two tech investors say behind closed doors, CEOs are discussing what they won't admit publicly: AI means smaller teams.

Alex George was fired from her TV news job while undergoing cancer treatment. Now, she has her dream job: baking for social media.

In 2023, Arran Skinner opened his email to find he'd been let go from his job as a multimedia and press relations expert in the humanitarian field.