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Amazon CEO Jassy says company is reducing bureaucracy, which is ‘anathema’ to innovation

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-23 03:24:28

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling event in New York on Feb. 26, 2025. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Tuesday that he's working to root out bureaucracy from within the company's ranks as part of an effort to reset its culture. Speaking at Amazon's annual conference for third-party sellers in Seattle, Jassy said the changes are necessary for the company to be able to innovate faster. "I would say bureaucracy is really anathema to startups and to entrepreneurial organizations," J

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Fiverr is laying off 250 employees to become an 'AI-first company'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 08:57:30

Gig economy platform Fiverr is laying off 250 employees as it pivots to being an "AI-first company," CEO Micha Kaufman shared in an essay on X. The move affects around 30 percent of the company's staff, The Register writes, and it's not uncommon among tech companies in 2025. Duolingo announced similar plans to become "AI-first" in April. Kaufman describes this process as returning to "startup mode" and writes that his ultimate goal is to turn Fiverr into "an AI-first company that's leaner, fast

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NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 01:26:27

NASA is changing the way that its employees come in contact with, and remember, one of its worst tragedies. In the wake of the 2003 loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew, NASA created a program to use the orbiter's debris for research and education at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Agency employees were invited to see what remained of the space shuttle as a powerful reminder as to why they had to be diligent in their work. Access to the Columbia Research and Preservation Off

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'We will do better.' Microsoft CEO Nadella admits company has to rebuild trust with employees

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-30 05:14:14

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella departs following a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in a meeting on Thursday that the company has work to do to smooth relations with employees after announcing several rounds of layoffs and a mandated partial return to in-person work. In the meeting that was held online, an employee asked executives to speak about a perceived lack of

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Microsoft says employees will be expected in office three days a week

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-05 17:10:11

Microsoft said on Tuesday that employees will be expected to work in an office three days a week starting next year. Employees that work near Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, or the Puget Sound area, will be required to be in the office three days a week, starting in February. After that, the policy will extend to other U.S. locations and then to international offices. The company is sending emails to employees who live within 50 miles of a Microsoft office around Puget Sound a

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Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

news.ycombinator.com Ashley Stewart 2025-10-05 17:31:17

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. One of Big Tech's last remaining RTO holdouts is officially sending employees back to the office. Microsoft is mandating employees work from offices at least three days a week, according to an internal email the company sent to staff on Tuesday. The mandate will happen in three phases, beginning at the end of February 2026, with Seattle-area employees who live within 50 miles of a Mic

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Rivian makes its second small workforce cut of the year ahead of R2 SUV launch

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-11 05:03:34

In Brief Rivian is laying off around 150 workers — its second small staff cut in a matter of months — as the company readies itself for the all-important launch of its more-affordable R2 SUV next year. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that the new cuts were mostly to its “commercial” team, which deals with sales and service operations, and that affected employees will be eligible for rehire and encouraged to apply for other open positions. The Wall Street Journal first reported the layoffs

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OpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 billion

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Ashley Capoot 2025-10-14 05:50:48

OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale by more than $4 billion, CNBC has learned. The artificial intelligence startup is giving eligible current and former employees the opportunity to sell roughly $10.3 billion in stock, up from the $6 billion it was initially targeting, according to a person familiar with the offering. The sale will be at a $500 billion valuation, in line with expectations, said the person, who asked not to be named because the details are private. OpenAI'

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5 ways to fill the AI skills gap in your business

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-15 05:28:20

tolgart / iStock via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Closing the AI skills gap requires a clear business strategy. Cross-team talks show employees the value of reskilling. Use practice groups and change agents to spread AI benefits. Research suggests 88% of business leaders prioritize AI skills over other capabilities. However, finding and developing AI talent is a tough task. This year's Nash Squared/Harvey Nash Digital Leadership

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Trump Ends Union Protections for NASA Employees, Citing ‘National Security’

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-16 13:10:38

Just before Labor Day weekend, the White House issued an executive order that excludes NASA and other agencies from collective bargaining rights. NASA employees have previously expressed public dismay against the administration’s budget cuts to the agency and its policy against diversity programs, and the latest order is another major blow to the staff. President Donald Trump signed the new order on August 28, ending collective bargaining at a number of federal agencies with national security m

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Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-20 02:58:59

After implementing an AI chatbot in the Apple Support app to help customers a few weeks ago, the company is taking their AI chatbot push a step further. With Asa, Apple retail employees will now be able to ask questions and learn more about Apple products to improve their sales abilities. This feature will soon be widely available in Apple’s internal ‘SEED’ app, which retail employees use to learn more about Apple and its products. It generally serves as a training tool. According to the scree

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FEMA’s Chaotic Summer Has Gone From Bad to Worse

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-10-21 12:23:54

On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem claimed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “is much more responsive under President Trump to people’s needs than it has been under previous administrations.” Speaking at the public third meeting of the FEMA Review Council, a group appointed by Donald Trump at the beginning of this year to oversee reform of the agency, Noem encouraged those listening to “be vocal” about positive interactions with the Trump administration

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FEMA's Chaotic Summer Has Gone From Bad to Worse

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-10-21 17:23:54

On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem claimed that FEMA “is much more responsive under President Trump to people’s needs than it has been under previous administrations.” Speaking at the public third meeting of the FEMA Review Council, a group appointed by Donald Trump at the beginning of this year to oversee reform of the agency, Noem encouraged those listening to “be vocal” about positive interactions with the Trump administration. “Tell the story of how different

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Blizzard’s Diablo team has unionized

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-22 01:47:08

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. More than 450 game developers on Blizzard’s Diablo team have formed a union, making them one of the largest and latest groups of Microsoft workers to do so. The new union includes game developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff across the Diablo franchise, according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA) press release, which voted “strongly in favor” to be represented by the CWA. T

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Microsoft fires two employees over breaking into its president’s office

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-24 16:56:42

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold banners and signs as they protest outside the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Microsoft on Thursday said that it had terminated two employees who broke into President Brad Smith's office earlier this week. The news comes after seven current and former Microsoft employees on Tuesday held a protest in the company's building in Redmond, Washington, in opposition to the Israeli military's alleged

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Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-25 05:16:56

Google has eliminated more than one-third of its managers overseeing small teams, an executive told employees last week, as the company continues its focus on efficiencies across the organization. "Right now, we have 35% fewer managers, with fewer direct reports" than at this time a year ago, said Brian Welle, vice president of people analytics and performance, according to audio of an all-hands meeting reviewed by CNBC. "So a lot of fast progress there." At the meeting, employees asked Welle

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Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year, exec says

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-25 17:29:49

Google has eliminated more than one-third of its managers overseeing small teams, an executive told employees last week, as the company continues its focus on efficiencies across the organization. "Right now, we have 35% fewer managers, with fewer direct reports" than at this time a year ago, said Brian Welle, vice president of people analytics and performance, according to audio of an all-hands meeting reviewed by CNBC. "So a lot of fast progress there." At the meeting, employees asked Welle

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Trump administration suspends FEMA employees who warned about disaster response

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-25 17:37:15

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. FEMA has suspended at least 30 employees after they warned that spending limits, staffing cuts, and gaps in leadership hurt the agency’s ability to respond to disasters. The employees rece

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Microsoft’s employee protests have reached a boiling point

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-25 21:30:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Some Microsoft employees are willing to risk everything to protest their employer. No Azure for Apartheid, a group led by current and former Microsoft employees, started last year as a petition to Microsoft executives. It demanded that Microsoft end all Azure contracts and partnerships with the Israeli military and government, disclose all ties, call for a ceasefire in Gaza, an

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Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-27 00:32:17

Protesters stormed Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters on Monday and made it into president Brad Smith’s office in Building 34, forcing a temporary lockdown. The “No Azure for Apartheid” group reportedly live-streamed their sit-in on Twitch, hoisting banners, chanting ‘Brad Smith, you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!’ and posting a mock legal summons charging Smith with “crimes against humanity.” TechCrunch has reached out to Microsoft for more information. According to The Verge, the prot

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Elon Musk’s X may finally settle $500M severance lawsuit

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-03 14:25:22

More than two years after leaving the company, some former Twitter employees may finally receive their severance pay. Elon Musk’s X is tentatively settling a class action lawsuit filed by workers who were let go soon after he purchased Twitter. This news comes in the form of a court filing where both parties asked the court to delay an upcoming hearing so that they could work out a deal. After buying Twitter in 2022, Musk laid off over 6,000 Twitter employees, reducing the company’s headcount

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The Open-Office Trap (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Maria Konnikova 2025-11-04 15:16:39

In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings didn’t have doors. The rooms opened up directly onto the hallway, and tidbits about the French Revolution, say, or Benjamin Franklin’s breakfast, would drift from one classroom to another. Distracting at best and frustrating at worst, wide-open classrooms went, for the m

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The Open-Office Trap

news.ycombinator.com Maria Konnikova 2025-11-05 09:16:39

In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings didn’t have doors. The rooms opened up directly onto the hallway, and tidbits about the French Revolution, say, or Benjamin Franklin’s breakfast, would drift from one classroom to another. Distracting at best and frustrating at worst, wide-open classrooms went, for the m

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Silicon Valley's AI deals are creating zombie startups: 'You hollowed out the organization'

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot Salvador Rodriguez Annie Palmer 2025-11-10 14:36:59

Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Jeff Wang got a big promotion last month. There were lots of tears, but not the happy kind. The 39-year-old was unexpectedly named interim CEO of artificial intelligence coding startup Windsurf. The company had been in discussions with OpenAI about a potential acquisition that would have resulted in a handsome payday for many employees. But the talks fell apart and, on July 11, several founders and top researchers instead left to join Google as part of a $2

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What does Palantir actually do?

news.ycombinator.com Caroline Haskins 2025-11-15 22:03:16

Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software firm's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Department of Defense, and the Israeli military has sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. Palantir has been so infamous for so long that, for some people, its name has become a cultural shorthand for dystopian surveillance. But a number of former Palantir employees tell WIR

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Microsoft is getting ready to return to the office

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-17 12:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft originally encouraged its employees to work from home amid the coronavirus outbreak in 2020. This new flexible working arrangement then became an official “hybrid workplace” policy several months after the pandemic began, allowing managers to approve permanent remote work. Now that the pandemic has settled into endemicity, Microsoft wants employees to return to the of

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

news.ycombinator.com Caroline Haskins 2025-11-18 22:03:16

Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software firm's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Department of Defense, and the Israeli military has sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. Palantir has been so infamous for so long that, for some people, its name has become a cultural shorthand for dystopian surveillance. But a number of former Palantir employees tell WIR

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-11-27 04:00:00

Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software firm's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Department of Defense, and the Israeli military has sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. Palantir has been so infamous for so long that, for some people, its name has become a cultural shorthand for dystopian surveillance. But a number of former Palantir employees tell WIR

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It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-27 12:11:56

Companies are monitoring whether employees adhere to corporate return-to-office (RTO) policies and are enforcing the requirements more than they have in the past five years, according to a report that commercial real estate firm CBRE will release next week and that Ars Technica reviewed. CBRE surveyed 184 companies for its report. Among companies surveyed, 69 percent are monitoring whether employees come into the office as frequently as policy mandates. That’s an increase from 45 percent last y

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Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-29 10:43:28

An unknown threat actor has stolen the sensitive personal, financial, and health information of nearly 870,000 Columbia University current and former students and employees after breaching the university's network in May. Established in 1767 as King's College, Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university with a budget of $6.6 billion in 2024, over 20,000 employees, including 4,700 academic staff, and over 35,000 enrolled students across 19 schools and special programs. The

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Amazon CEO Jassy says company is reducing bureaucracy, which is ‘anathema’ to innovation

Fiverr is laying off 250 employees to become an 'AI-first company'

NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

'We will do better.' Microsoft CEO Nadella admits company has to rebuild trust with employees

Microsoft says employees will be expected in office three days a week

Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

Rivian makes its second small workforce cut of the year ahead of R2 SUV launch

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Blizzard’s Diablo team has unionized

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Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

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Trump administration suspends FEMA employees who warned about disaster response

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The Open-Office Trap (2014)

The Open-Office Trap

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

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