Applied Materials to cut 4% of global staff after sales slow
Applied Materials, the largest US producer of chipmaking equipment, plans to cut 4 per cent of its global workforce as it copes with a sales slowdown and trade turmoil. The company will…
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Trump Furloughs Top Nuclear Weapons Staff (What Could Go Wrong?)
Johnson chuckled. “The president uses social media to make a point. You can argue he’s probably the most effective person who’s ever used social media for that. He is using satire to make…
KCRW Cuts 10% of Staff in Wake of Public Media Funding Cuts; DJs Jason Kramer, Jeremy Sole, José Galván Among Exits
Faced with further budget cuts following the Trump administration’s elimination of federal funding for public media, local public radio outlet KCRW has trimmed an additional 10% of its…
Bari Weiss Memo Sparks Confusion at CBS News: Some Producers Urge Staff to Respond After WGA Says to Wait (EXCLUSIVE)
To write or not to write? CBS News staffers were grappling with conflicting orders Monday, according to three people familiar with the matter, after some producers at the Paramount…
Ex-Starbucks staff take to TikTok after losing their jobs amid hundreds of sudden closures
Last week, Starbucks announced the closure of 1% of its North American stores by the end of 2025, resulting in sudden job losses for hundreds of baristas. The closures are one part of a $1…
Stephen Colbert Recalls Moment He Found Out ‘The Late Show’ Was Canceled and Delivering the News to His Staff: ‘I Had Sweat Through My Shirt’
Jimmy Kimmel hosted fellow late-night frontman Stephen Colbert on his show Tuesday night, and during the interview, Colbert recalled how he found out “The Late Show” had been canceled and…
Amazon’s AWS CEO chides staff for slow product rollouts
Amazon Web Services’ top executive admonished staff on Thursday for what he called slow product rollouts by the cloud computing provider at its premier Reinvent customer event in December,…
Checked out: Biden staff scrambled to make thousands of pardons look presidential
New documents show that President Biden was checked out of decisions on pardoning felons and commuting the sentences of death-row inmates while his aides worked to make him look involved…
ByteDance chip design staff suddenly find out they report to Singapore unit: sources
Chip design workers at Chinese tech giant ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly found out last week that they are part of a Singapore unit, three people familiar with…
Thousands of Lloyds staff at risk of dismissal in performance overhaul: FT
British lender Lloyds Banking Group will put about 3,000 people deemed among the bottom 5 per cent of performers at risk of dismissal, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Sep 4),…
Hong Kong probes alleged insider trading by staff at HKEX, SFC
Hong Kong is probing allegations of insider dealing that involve at least two individuals at the stock exchange and the city’s financial regulator as well as brokers and social media…
Mediacorp lays off 93 staff due to rapid scale and pace of change in media landscape
Mediacorp is laying off 93 staff as it adapts to a “rapidly evolving media landscape and to better align its operations amid the prevailing economic and commercial uncertainty”. The cuts…
IHH Healthcare Q2 net profit falls 28.9% on higher staff costs
Integrated healthcare provider IHH Healthcare posted a 28.9 per cent drop in net profit to RM443 million (S$134.7 million) for its second quarter ended Jun 30, 2025, from RM623 million in…
Anonymous Content Lays Off 15% of Staff
Anonymous Content, the award-winning production and management company behind “Spotlight” and “Disclaimer,” has been hit with a round of layoffs. The company is pink-slipping 15% of its…
Vanity Fair Staff Shocked by Proposed Melania Cover
Vanity Fair is gambling on its own staff in its bid to put First Lady Melania Trump on the cover of an upcoming issue. Staffers at the legacy magazine are flipping out after Semafor first…
Changi Travel Services cuts 30 staff amid market shifts
Changi Travel Services (CTS) is laying off 30 staff as part of an ongoing restructuring process to tackle changing market conditions, it said on Thursday (Aug 21). Affected staff will…
US Fed’s top regulatory official suggests allowing central bank staff to own small amounts of crypto products
The US Federal Reserve’s top regulatory official suggested on Tuesday (Aug 19) that central bank staff should be permitted to own small amounts of crypto products, arguing experience would…
Air Canada cabin staff go on strike, grounding hundreds of flights
Air Canada’s unionised flight attendants walked off the job early on Saturday (Aug 16) morning after contract talks with the country’s largest carrier stalled, in a move that could disrupt…
JD Vance Gets Wrench Thrown in Cotswolds Vacation by Angry Pub Staff
Organizations are ranked on the sheet as strong, moderate, or low, Axios reported Friday, with ratings built off social media posts, press releases, video testimonials, ads, White House…
HSBC plans major global expansion of office, staff surveillance, documents show
HSBC plans to step up surveillance of staff and buildings by adding more cameras and biometric access to its premises globally, internal documents seen by Reuters show, a move that comes…
VietJet to hire more than 5,000 new Thai staff for expansion
VietJet Aviation plans to employ more than 5,000 new staff in Thailand as Vietnam’s biggest budget carrier accelerates flight and route expansion to South-east Asia’s most popular…
Brian Robbins Calls Paramount-Skydance Merger ‘Bittersweet’ in Memo to Staff Amid His Exit as Co-CEO
Brian Robbins is Co-CEO of Paramount Global, and President and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon, is reflecting on his time at the company amid his exit following the Skydance…
Samsung is now tracking office attendance for some U.S. staff in its semiconductor business
Samsung is one of many companies that have been pushing for employees to return to the office full-time. But now the brand is taking RTO efforts in the U.S. one step further with a tool…
Amazon to cut Wondery staff, reorganise audio business
Amazon.com is breaking up the operations of its Wondery podcast network as part of a broad reorganisation of the business. About 110 people will lose their jobs because of the move,…