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Amazon reportedly set to lay off up to 30,000 corporate employees in massive workforce cut
The sweeping workforce discount is meant to scale back bills and compensate for over-hiring in the course of the pandemic, based on a report from Reuters. … Read More
Amazon layoffs reaction: ‘Thought I was a top performer but guess I’m expendable’
On social media and elsewhere, impacted workers and others reacted to Amazon’s resolution to chop 14,000 company and tech staff throughout quite a few divisions. … Read More
Slowly but surely, high-speed rail backers believe Cascadia mega-project will become a reality
Ten years right into a dream to attach Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Portland by way of a high-speed rail line, the plan is shifting ahead, and Cascadia Innovation Hall leaders say the subsequent decade might be a defining one. … Read More
Amazon layoffs hit software engineers hardest in Washington
The layoffs of software program engineers replicate a putting shift for an business that has historically relied on coders to assist construct and preserve the spine of digital platforms. … Read More
‘It’s culture’: Amazon CEO says massive corporate layoffs were about agility — not AI or cost-cutting
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the corporate’s newest huge spherical of layoffs — about 14,000 company jobs — wasn’t triggered by monetary pressure or synthetic intelligence changing staff, however fairly a push to remain nimble. … Read More
The ‘enormous barrier’ that threatens economic growth in the Pacific Northwest
Leaders within the Pacific Northwest are largely bullish on the area’s continued financial success — however one menace to the area’s fiscal progress worries them particularly. … Read More
Tech Moves: Ex-Starbucks CTO retires; Microsoft vet joins Oracle Cloud; Amazon hardware leader departs
Deb Corridor Lefevre, the longtime tech exec who was most lately CTO at Starbucks, introduced her retirement in a LinkedIn submit. … Read More
Filing: Amazon cuts more than 2,300 jobs in Washington state as part of broader layoffs
Amazon will lay off 2,303 company workers in Washington state, primarily in its Seattle and Bellevue workplaces, based on a submitting with the state Employment Safety Division that gives a geographic breakdown of the corporate’s 14,000 world job cuts. … Read More
Filing: Meta’s AI layoffs hit Washington offices in Bellevue, Seattle, Redmond
Meta plans to put off greater than 100 workers in Washington state as a part of a broader spherical of cuts inside its synthetic intelligence division. … Read More
What it’s like to wear Amazon’s new smart glasses for delivery drivers
Amazon is testing sensible glasses for its supply drivers, aiming to make routes safer and extra environment friendly. … Read More
