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Including direct and indirect jobs, Amazon employs over 1.1 million people in India
Online real estate broker Redfin is cutting 862 employees and shutting down its instant-cash-offer subsidiary RedfinNow, another casualty of two-decade high interest rates stoked by the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation. The job cuts amount to 13% of Redfin's workforce, the company announced in a regulatory filing. Redfin also laid off 470 employees in June, blaming slowing home sales. Redfin has slashed more than a quarter of its workforce since April 2022 on the assumption that the housing downturn will last at least through 2023, it said in the filing. The average U.S. long-term mortgage rate is hovering around 7%, partially a result of the Fed raising rates six times this year at it tries to stem four-decade high inflation. Fed officials have boosted their benchmark lending rate by three-quarters of a point at its last four meetings, sowing fears that its heavy-handed policy could tip the U.S. into a recession. More rate hikes are expected into next year, though inflati
The cuts are expected to affect about 10% of the company, which employed more than 87,000 as of Sept. 30, according to Insider.
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Will be first broad headcount reduction in the tech giant's 18-year history
Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of safety and integrity, said that while the company said goodbye to incredibly talented friends and colleagues, "our core moderation capabilities remain in place''
Product and engineering teams were gutted by well over 50%, according to two sources, and other groups - like communications, marketing, human rights and diversity - were almost completely eliminated
The global workforce reductions are expected to affect 3,700 jobs - about half of the company.
The pause generally doesn't apply to teams working on future devices and long-term initiatives, but it affects some corporate functions and standard hardware and software engineering roles
Twitter intends to start cutting staff Friday, the company said in an email to employees. Musk plans to get rid of half the workforce
People in the know described the mood within the India development centres and across all segments as "very fearful", with people not sure if they will have a job or not
Twitter told its employees through an email that they would receive an alert on staff cuts on their official or personal IDs on Friday
"In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday," Twitter management said in an email reviewed by Bloomberg
Musk also intends to reverse the company's existing work-from-anywhere policy, asking remaining employees to report to offices -- though some exceptions could be made, the people said
"I want to emphasise that the overall job cuts are not more than five per cent of our total strength," he said
A meeting was called by the officials of the labour department on October 25, but the company did not appear for meeting