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British telecoms operator Virgin Media O2 is considering cutting up to 4,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring, Sky News reported

Microsoft's VEO covers eligible employees at level 70 and below in selected teams across India, the US, the UK and Canada, with individual exit terms and benefits subject to eligibility

Microsoft has about 23,000 employees in India, although there is no immediate clarity on how many of them would be eligible for the voluntary exit programme

Barclays plans to cut about 5% of its workforce as it adopts AI to reduce costs, while third-quarter fixed-income trading revenue fell 19% and equities revenue jumped 47% year-on-year

The company employed about 16,000 people at the end of last year, more than half of whom work in the US

Amazon has cut nearly 1,000 white-collar jobs, affecting employees in India, the US and the UK. The layoffs mainly impact its Stores unit as the company expands its focus on AI

He worked through Holi and Diwali, birthdays and anniversaries, stayed on call during vacations and even logged in from a hospital while his wife underwent surgery. After 12 years at Oracle, Pooja Sahu said her husband, Sourabh, found himself among those impacted by the technology giant's latest layoffs. The most painful part, perhaps, was that he found out he had lost his job when he could no longer log into his work system. "This post is for everyone who works day and night to provide for their families, especially amid visa uncertainty, yet still gives their best every day," she wrote. Sahu's account is among a wave of emotional posts that have surfaced on social media over the past hours around the latest job cuts at Oracle, with employees, their relatives and friends penning accounts of sudden exits, uncertainty, and careers suddenly upended. The individuals concerned could not be reached immediately, and the personal accounts shared by family members and friends could not be

Samsung India's job cuts span multiple levels, with director-level officials, team leads, branch managers and area managers among those affected

Volkswagen's board of directors on Thursday approved a sweeping cost-cutting plan that would see 50,000 jobs cuts, slim its model line by half and end auto production at four German plants. On top of 50,000 job losses already previously agreed, the company would lose 100,000 positions. The plan put forward by CEO Oliver Blume to counter low-cost competition in China and headwinds from US tariffs overcame resistance from employee representatives and the regional government, which holds a stake in the company.

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Nearly 40% of Bengaluru tech centre's workforce laid off in first major retrenchment since 2015

ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank reported lower attrition in FY26, while HDFC Bank saw a marginal rise as technology and digitisation reduced headcount

The layoffs come as Amazon reorganises its Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) business, consolidating teams and redirecting resources towards projects with the greatest customer impact

Samsung has cut jobs in its US consumer electronics business as it relocates its headquarters to Texas while prioritising growth in AI-driven chip operations

A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical, parental or family leave. They are among the 8,000 employees, or about 10 per cent of its workforce, Meta said it would lay off in May. The lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, claims the company used internal AI systems, keystroke and activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards and algorithmically assisted performance rankings, among other methods, to determine who would be laid off. Many of these scores and ratings "by design, cannot be accumulated by an employee who is on protected medical or family leave, or whose output is reduced by a disability," the lawsuit says. Meta, according to the lawsuit, did not account for protected leave when taking employees' scores into account and "did not pause the system for the individualised, leave- and accommodation-neutral review

Layoffs reflect rising concerns over AI-driven job displacement in entry-level and back-office roles, alongside growing US policy pressure to shift more work onshore

London-headquartered bank said it would cut corporate functions roles by more than 15 per cent by 2030 and scale practical uses of AI to streamline processes

The company said it was making strategic investments in silicon, optics, security and employees' use of AI across the company, as it reduces roles in some areas

Cloudflare is set to cut more than 1,100 jobs globally, reducing about 20 per cent of the workforce, as it restructures operations around adopting artificial intelligence tools.