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Updated on: May 2023
Meta fired 30-week pregnant employee, here’s what happened next
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Meta fired 30-week pregnant employee, here’s what happened next

The major companies that laid off employees include Meta, Infosys, Amazon, Google, Byju’s, Wipro, and Salesforce laid off a maximum number of workers globally. Apparently, Major tech companies have laid off employees exponentially due to economic uncertainties. The move of layoffs is part of a larger trend of tech companies cutting jobs and slowing hiring as […]

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Layoffs have no end: Deloitte to slash 1,200 jobs
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Layoffs have no end: Deloitte to slash 1,200 jobs

According to the reports of Business Today, an international professional services company, Deloitte will sack around 1,200 jobs or 1.5% of its U.S. workforce. Deloitte said in an emailed statement, “Our U.S. businesses continue to experience strong client demand. As growth in select practices moderates, we are taking modest personnel actions where necessary.” Recently, […]

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EY to sack 3,000 Jobs or 5% nearly of its workforce
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EY to sack 3,000 Jobs or 5% nearly of its workforce

One of the Big Four accounting firms, Ernst & Young (EY) will cut 3,000 Jobs or 5% nearly of its Workforce in the US due to ‘Overcapacity’. The announcement follows less than a week after the unit’s objection torpedoed the global accounting giant’s plan to break up its audit and consulting units. Also Watch, Recession […]

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IT company cuts 13% workforce of global team; read founder email
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IT company cuts 13% workforce of global team; read founder email

IT company, Amplitude co-founders Spenser Skates, Curtis Liu, and Jeffrey Wang sent an email announcing the decision to reduce the company’s global team by 13%. Amplitude is a digital analytics platform that gives self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. The IT company has the brain behind more than 45,000 digital products at over 1,000 […]

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‘Rollercoaster of emotions,’ says Microsoft employee fired after 25 yrs of job
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‘Rollercoaster of emotions,’ says Microsoft employee fired after 25 yrs of job

The year 2023 started off with the layoff note. Many Tech companies have sacked lakhs of employees. Recently, Microsoft conducted another round of layoffs which affected 10,000 employees. Among the affected employees who lost their jobs a woman named Ann Pfeiffer has shared her experience. The company has fired the employee after over 25 years of service. […]

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McKinsey & Company to slash 1,400 jobs this week
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McKinsey & Company to slash 1,400 jobs this week

According to a Bloomberg report, Consulting giant McKinsey & Company is embarking on a rare round of major job cuts, with plans to eliminate about 1,400 jobs this week. The job cut is nearly 3% of the total workforce. The company is laying off employees due to a global economic downturn. The company is restructuring […]

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Employee sacked for reheating food in the company’s microwave
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Employee sacked for reheating food in the company’s microwave

The year 2023 started on a layoff note. So far in 2023, there have been 708 layoffs at tech companies with 211,140 people impacted (2,427 people per day). In 2022, there were 1,535 layoffs at tech companies 241,176 people were impacted. There can be many reasons behind sacking an employee. Companies are laying off employees due to poor performance, cost-cutting, or due to economic uncertainty. […]

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GitHub sacks entire engineering team in India
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GitHub sacks entire engineering team in India

Microsoft-owned, AI-powered developer platform GitHub has sacked its entire engineering team operating in India. This has affected nearly 100 employees. Gergely Orosz, Tech writer has shared the information through a Tweet, “What I am hearing: GitHub’s India engineering team is no more. Yesterday, the complete dev team was let go at once. We’re talking of […]

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Flipkart’s Chief People Officer confirms no mass layoffs at Flipkart
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Flipkart’s Chief People Officer confirms no mass layoffs at Flipkart

The e-commerce company Flipkart Krishna Raghavan, the Chief People Officer has said that there will be no mass layoffs in the company. In the conversation with mint Krishna Raghavan told that the company will not be offering salary hikes to senior management officials and also would not lead to any job cuts. Additionally, the company will not delay […]

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No end to layoffs! READ heartbroken CEO’s message on layoffs
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No end to layoffs! READ heartbroken CEO’s message on layoffs

There is no end to layoffs recently an American worldwide employment website, Indeed has sacked 2,200 employees roughly 15% of the workforce. The company’s severance package will have some additions based on role and location, but under the severance agreement employees will receive: Indeed CEO Chris Hyams wrote, “I am heartbroken to share that I have made […]

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Meta former employee was paid Rs 1.5 crore salary to do nothing
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Meta former employee was paid Rs 1.5 crore salary to do nothing

A former Meta employee Madelyn Machado shared a video on TikTok revealing how she had nothing to do especially in the recruiting space at social media platform Meta for six months straight. And she also revealed that she was getting paid $190,000 (roughly Rs 1.57 crore) annually. In the Video (Click here to watch the […]

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Accenture to sack 19,000 employees in next 18 months
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Accenture to sack 19,000 employees in next 18 months

A leading global professional services company, Accenture will sack 19,000 employees which is nearly 2.5 percent of the company’s workforce. More than half of the layoffs would impact employees in its non-billable corporate functions. According to CNBC reports the layoff will be over a period of the next 18 months. CNBC-TV18 shared a tweet saying, “#NewsFlash | […]

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