Job Cuts

Boeing has laid off hundreds of additional employees in Washington state and California as part of planned cuts that will eventually reduce the company's workforce by about 17,000. Nearly 400 Boeing employees were laid off in Washington state and more than 500 in California, news outlets reported Monday. The aerospace giant announced previously it would reduce its workforce by 10% in the coming months as it tries to recover from financial and regulatory troubles and a strike by its machinists that lasted almost two months. CEO Kelly Ortberg has said the strike did not cause the layoffs, which he said was the result of overstaffing. In November, the company started notifying workers who would be laid off. Notices filed with state employment agencies showed the first round of cuts impacted about 3,500 people around the country, The Seattle Times reported. Those cuts touched people in roles from engineers to recruiters to analysts and impacted Boeing's commercial, defense and global

In 2024, nearly 150,000 workers across major tech companies, including Tesla, Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, are facing layoffs as these giants restructure and adapt to challenging economic conditions

Germany's largest steelmaker, a division of Thyssenkrupp AG , is under pressure from cheaper Asian competitors, high power prices and a weakening global economy,

Companies across Europe are being forced to freeze hiring or cut jobs on difficult economy and persistent weak demand for many products

Tesla owner billionaire Elon Musk and Indian American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in an op-ed provided an insight into their blueprint for an unprecedented government reform that includes mass federal job cuts and massive expense reduction. Following his stunning electoral victory, President-elect Donald Trump entrusted Musk, 53, and Ramaswamy, 39, with government reform by appointing them to head the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The two confidants of Trump wrote in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that they will serve as outside volunteers, assisting the Trump transition team in identifying and hiring a lean team of small-government crusaders, including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America. This team will work closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget in the new administration. The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrati

Boeing said in a notice filed with Washington's Employment Security Department on Monday that it has so far laid off 2,199 workers in the state, among job cuts that will eventually total about 17,000 across the company. The aerospace giant announced in October that it planned to cut about 10 per cent of its workforce in the coming months as it struggles to recover from financial and regulatory troubles as well as a strike by its machinists that lasted nearly two months. The planned cuts include workers at Boeing facilities across the country, from Washington to Missouri to Arizona to South Carolina, The Seattle Times reported. They also appeared to impact workers in all three of Boeing's divisions -- commercial aeroplanes, defence and global services. Before the layoff notices were delivered last week, Boeing had 66,000 workers in Washington. Among the layoffs so far are notices that went out last week to more than 400 members of Boeing's professional aerospace labour union, the ..

Boeing on Monday won ratification of a contract giving its machinists a 38 per cent pay hike over four years and a $12,000 bonus, ending the strike

Senior faculty members of engineering branches face layoffs and financial hardship as focus shifts to high-demand tech fields

PepsiCo said Wednesday it plans to close four US bottling plants and lay off nearly 400 workers as part of its efforts to streamline its operations. The company said the closures will impact 136 workers in Cincinnati; 131 in Chicago; 127 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and fewer than 50 in Atlanta. The Chicago plant is the only one that will fully close. PepsiCo confirmed that closure earlier this week. The company said sales, delivery and warehouse functions will continue at the other three locations. Earlier this month, PepsiCo lowered its sales forecast for the year as consumers in the US, China and elsewhere pulled back on buying its drinks and snacks after years of price hikes. PepsiCo's North American beverage sales fell 3 per cent in both the second and third quarters of this year. PepsiCo's net income fell 5 per cent to USD 2.9 billion in the July-September period. The company has repeatedly said it is sharply focused on efficiency and productivity gains. PepsiCo, which is ba

McKinsey's employee restructuring is aimed at separating its China unit from its global operations amid political pressure in the US over its work in Saudi Arabia and China

China's private economy contributes over half of the country's tax revenues, more than 60 per cent of its gross domestic product, and employs over 80 per cent of urban workers

PwC's US unit will lay off around 1,800 workers, its first formal job cuts since 2009, as part of a restructuring process amid decreased demand for certain services, its US leader, Paul Griggs said

Goldman Sachs' annual review process has historically resulted in workforce reductions of 2 to 7%, depending on financial performance and market conditions

The layoffs included some engineering roles, and the biggest cuts were made to the team responsible for the Apple Books app and Apple Bookstore

That would work out to about 1,000 people, based on its reported employee count at the end of last year

Around 12 mn students graduated this summer, but with even roles in remote areas attracting young Chinese with diplomas from top universities, aspiring professionals face toughest job market in years

Cisco Systems is planning to lay off 7% of its employees, its second round of job cuts this year, as the company shifts its focus to more rapidly growing areas in technology, such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The company based in San Jose, California, did not specify the number of jobs it is cutting. It had 84,900 employees as of July 2023. Based on that figure, the number of jobs cut would be about 5,900. In February, Cisco announced it would cut about 4,000 jobs. The networking equipment maker said in June that it would invest $1 billion in tech startups like Cohere, Mistral and Scale to develop reliable AI products. It recently also announced a partnership with Nvidia to develop infrastructure for AI systems. Cisco's layoffs come just two weeks after chipmaker Intel Corp announced it would cut about 15,000 jobs as it tries to turn its business around to compete with more successful rivals like Nvidia and AMD. Intel's quarterly earnings report disappointed investo

Dell executives Bill Scannell and John Byrne communicated the layoffs through an internal memo, titled "Global Sales Modernisation Update", on August 6

Intel, which is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings Thursday, has about 110,000 employees, excluding workers at units that are being spun out