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Parag Agrawal: Not the fire-breathing dragon Twitter needed, said Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson's biography reveals key insights into Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and subsequent firing of top execs, including CEO Parag Agrawal

Crypto unicorn CoinSwitch lays off 44 employees citing role redundancy

The company has 519 employees, according to its LinkedIn profile. This would mean around 8 per cent of CoinSwitch's workforce has been shown the door

After quiet quitting & quiet firing, are companies now quiet cutting?

Quiet cutting is a move by companies where they remove positions but do not fire any employees

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Tech industry records over 226,000 layoffs in 2023, up 40% since 2022

Since the beginning of 2021, tech companies have laid off over 405,000 individuals

Gaming unicorn MPL lays off 350 employees, revisits office infra costs

The move comes at a time when the GST Council has recommended imposing a 28 per cent tax on full deposit value, with no distinction made between games of skill and chance

UBS Group to cut two-thirds of Credit Suisse dealmakers in Asia-Pacific

That would cost about 200 jobs at its global banking division in Asia over the next couple of months, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is confidential

As startups lay off staff to cut costs, employees head out for job hunt

Employees not just from edtech but also from commerce and digital media startups are looking out for new jobs amidst massive layoffs

CVS Health Corp to cut 5,000 jobs amid shift away from retail focus

None of the job losses will impact customer-facing positions in stores, pharmacies, clinics or customer services centers, a spokesman for the company said

Delhi's municipal corporation removes 2,181 positions across 14 departments

The decision came after an independent third-party audit by EY. Officials confirm that there will be no layoffs

Anheuser-Busch lays off hundreds of US corporate workers after sales slump

Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud Light, confirmed this week is laying off hundreds of positions across its US corporate staff. In a statement to The Associated Press, the beer maker said the layoffs will impact less than 2 per cent of its workforce. Anheuser-Busch's website says the company employs 19,000 employees nationwide. Warehouse staff, drivers and other frontline employees will not be affected, the company said. The job cuts arrive during a rocky time for Anheuser-Busch, which has seen a months-long sales decline for Bud Light since April when conservative critics vowed to boycott the brand after the brewer sent a commemorative can to transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Bud Light has also faced backlash from Mulvaney's supporters and LGBTQ+ rights groups, who say the brand didn't do enough to support her. Mulvaney later shared that she felt abandoned by Bud Light, and faced more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined" over the partnership. Bud Light is

Saarthi.ai fires employees in batches, withholds salaries; cites 'pressure'

Bengaluru-based AI tech support startup Saarthi.ai has fired some employees buckling under "investor pressure" to become profitable, and has allegedly withheld salaries of several employees since March 2023. While an employee took to a social media platform to claim that withholding of salaries has affected a substantial chunk of staff, the numbers could not be independently verified. Responding to queries, Founder and CEO Vishwa Nath Jha said the company has "let go" of employees in batches owing to "investor pressure" to become profitable, but declined to divulge the number of employees affected by the move. "Our team has been restructured in light of technological advancement and many team members were let go in batches as a result. We had to automate low level professional cognitive skills of our staff due to investor pressure to become profitable," he told PTI. Addressing concerns of withholding salaries, he said that the full and final settlement for early batches of the ...

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Sachin Bansal's fintech firm Navi lays off nearly 200 employees: Report

In addition to the layoffs, several individuals within the company have resigned over the past few months, including mid-to-senior level employees and leaders

US layoffs nearly halve in June as job cuts ease in technology sector

Like its peers, Amazon.com in March had said it would axe another 9,000 roles as a part of its second retrenchment drive, as investors also persuaded the firms to cut costs

UBS preparing to cut over half of Credit Suisse's workforce after takeover

Bankers, traders and support staff in Credit Suisse's investment bank in London, New York, and in some parts of Asia are expected to bear the brunt of the cuts

Ford to cut hundreds of US salaried workers to boost profit, lower costs

The automaker is cutting engineers in all three areas of its business, EVs, traditional internal combustion-engine models and commercial vehicles, said T.R. Reid, a company spokesman

Goldman starts cutting number of MDs across the globe amid deals slump

The moves are part of a deep cost-savings drive at the bank, which has seen at least three rounds of job cuts in less than a year

A hard lesson for Byju's Raveendran amid mass firings, delayed results

The former teacher from the southern state of Kerala got carried away. In 2015, just as a smartphone revolution was about to kick off in India, he launched a learning app

Deutsche Bank plans to cut 10% of 17k German retail jobs to curb expenses

The plans at Germany's largest bank come as Claudio de Sanctis prepares to take over the retail unit, known as the private bank division, on July 1