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This is horrific. Pixel, Android, Chrome are tangible products that, if anything, deserve more polishing and development.
Google is instead devesting from them in favor of an even more inflated AI play that doesn't actually deliver the same real value to customers/consumers, if any. But at unsustainable resource costs.
We're fucking up our world on fucking purpose and intentionally. Virtue signaling to investors ... What, exactly?
I really hope these folks can find jobs elsewhere.
Google layoffs impact hundreds in Pixel, Android division
https://9to5google.com/2025/04/11/google-pixel-android-layoffs/
It’s just getting started. When companies start laying people off and cutting their earnings estimates, watch out below!
#Goodwill #layoffs #SanFrancisco
"Goodwill San Francisco Bay, a local unit of the nationwide clothing-and-jobs charity network, plans to shutter its San Francisco headquarters and close its by-the-pound store in Oakland. Across the two locations, dozens of workers are set to lose their jobs."
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/goodwill-slashes-sf-headquarters-oakland-20265800.php
What #NIH #Layoffs Mean for #Cancer Patients
In the rush of headlines about budgets and restructuring, it’s easy to miss what’s really at stake. But working in cancer innovation and advocacy: when we delay #science, we delay survival. When we dismantle #research infrastructure, people #die waiting. Thousands at #NIH and #HHS were laid off. These were the people running #clinicaltrials, developing new treatment strategies, and pushing promising therapies toward approval.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/what-nih-layoffs-mean-for-cancer
Seigerman also pointed to concerns over recent #layoffs at the #FDA, saying the worries were now compounded by the "real talk" of #pharma #tariffs.
#Europe & the #US have interconnected supply chains for #medicines. The United States depends on medicines partly produced in Europe that bring in hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue.
Trump is set to impose a 104% in levies on Chinese imports on Wed -already set to see #tariffs
by 34% as part of Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs pkg +50% after CN didn’t back off its promise to impose 34% retaliatory tariffs on US goods by noon Tues adding: 84% in duties.
CN was America’s 2nd largest source of imports last yr, shipping: $439B worth of goods to the US. US: exported $144B to CN. Mutual tariffs threaten to hurt dom IDUs & result in #LAYOFFS.
#Idiocracy #USPol https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/business/trump-china-tariff
The changes come a week after a supervisor in the tower was arrested & accused of punching another controller in the face over a minor dispute about work, & they follow efforts by the #FAA to reduce #stress among staff still grappling with January’s catastrophic midair collision of a passenger plane & a military helicopter.
Things are bad when…
3 air traffic control [#ATC] managers w/responsibility for Reagan National Airport [#DCA] have been pushed out of their roles in the wake of a #violent altercation in the tower, the #FAA confirmed Tues.
“We brought in a new DCA management team to ensure strong support for the workforce,” an FAA spox said in an email, using the three-letter airport code for the airport.
#safety #FederalAgencies #Trump #Musk #DOGE #layoffs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/08/reagan-airport-fight-faa/
If other #carmakers make similar moves, the #economic impact could be severe, leading to higher #car #prices & widespread #layoffs. The #tariffs on #cars are among the first of several industry-specific levies that #Trump has in his sights & could offer early clues about how businesses will respond to his #trade policies, including whether they raise #prices or increase manufacturing in the US. Trump also wants to #tax the imports of #medicines & #ComputerChips.
#JaguarLandRover, based in Britain, said it would temporarily stop exporting its luxury cars to the US. #Stellantis idled factories in #Canada & #Mexico that make Chrysler & Jeep vehicles & laid off 900 US #workers who supplied those factories w/engines & other parts.
#Audi, the luxury division of #Volkswagen, also paused exports of cars to the #US from #Europe, telling dealers to sell whatever they still had on their lots.
What was #UAW thinking backing this plan?
#Trump’s 25% #tariffs on imported vehicles, which went into effect last week, are already sending tremors through the #AutoIndustry, prompting companies to stop shipping #cars to the #US, shut down factories in #Canada & #Mexico & lay off workers in #Michigan & other states.
#Trump #economy #inflation #recession #layoffs #trumpcession
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/trump-tariffs-cars-auto-industry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=3CE332E7-38CB-491F-BBE5-4C54F080388D
Caijing reports Microsoft’s joint venture Wicresoft will shut down China operations on April 8, laying off ~2,000 employees after ending outsourced post-sales support. #Microsoft #Wicresoft #China #Layoffs #TechNews #BusinessClosure #Outsourcing #GlobalOperations
#FDA #Layoffs Could Raise #Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety No mission, no research, no science, no knowledge. #FDA is eviscerated. In many areas of the #FDA, no #employees remain to process payroll, to file #retirement or layoff paperwork and to help overseas #inspectors who are at risk of maxing out agency credit cards. Even the agency’s #library where researchers and experts relied on medical journal subscriptions that have now been canceled, has been shut down. https://archive.is/NBha8
The initiatives provide leadership development, #teacher residency programs, training & other services. A coalition of Democratic-led states that challenged the funding freeze said it would trigger teacher #layoffs & other harm to #schools, weakening the teacher pipelines #Congress intended to enhance when it created the programs.
American Library Association: ALA says White House “cutting off opportunity” for Americans as administration cuts IMLS staff. “Today, the American Library Association (ALA) issued the following statement upon news that all staff at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) were placed on administrative leave for an unknown length of time and, thus, all grants and contracts […]
#Layoffs by the federal government drove job losses last month to the highest levels in the pandemic.
What do federal workers actually do? From business exports to veteran care, a law professor looks at the 35,000 federal workers in Philadelphia region: https://buff.ly/AzBpHC2
#WordPress #Automattic #layoffs
'Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals.'
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/
