Abigail Morris left a decade-long corporate tech career after being laid off in late 2024, turning her side interior design business, started in 2022 and built via Instagram, into a full-time venture. Her Chicago-based firm, Abigail Morris Interiors, specializes in historic properties and earned about $48,000 in take-home pay its first year, with 2025 revenue projected at $168,000 and take-home pay expected to reach $100,000 in 2026.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-11-02
Mark Quinn, former VP of operations and responsible AI at Silicon Valley startup DeepScribe, lost his job after GPT-4's 2023 release made the large supervisory team he was hired to build largely unnecessary. He later built a custom AI 'career buddy' that evaluated job postings, drafted outreach messages, refined his resume and rehearsed interview answers, which he credits with helping him secure his next role.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-20
Microsoft has laid off approximately 4,800 employees worldwide, representing a 2.1% reduction in its global staff. The company has committed to assisting those impacted in transitioning to new opportunities, emphasizing a thoughtful approach to the layoffs. Leadership encourages open dialogue to help teams regain confidence amid the uncertainty.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-08
New data shows U.S. tech sector layoff announcements rose in September, led by cuts at Uber Technologies, PayPal and Microsoft, even as overall U.S. layoff announcements declined for the month. Total tech industry job cuts for the year so far stand at 165,925.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-01
A careers newsletter produced by IEEE Spectrum in partnership with Parsity shares personal advice for engineers navigating job loss, drawing on the author's own experience of being laid off from a management role while juggling a new business and family responsibilities. The piece emphasizes emotional resilience, reminding readers that professional identity as an engineer persists beyond employment status, and outlines practical first steps such as pausing before job hunting and cutting unnecessary expenses.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-09-09
Economists behind a paper titled 'The AI Layoff Trap' argue that when firms automate to cut costs, each captures the savings but only bears part of the resulting drop in consumer demand caused by worker displacement, with the rest hitting competitors. This creates a competitive dynamic where rational firms keep automating even though the aggregate result is worse for both workers and firm owners than if they held back.
unpopularfront.news
· 2026-08-31
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