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LinkedIn cuts 900 jobs on a 12% revenue quarter
Read more . . . →LinkedIn had 12% revenue growth last quarter. They also just fired 900 people. The official reason is AI restructuring. The new CPO told employees they want “smaller, faster, more agile teams” that lean harder on AI tools. Translation: business is great, but cutting staff is how you tell investors you’re being futuristic. LinkedIn’s own AI hiring products are already pulling in $450 million a year. That money didn’t go to the people who built them. Harvard Business Review ran the numbers on this wave. Ninety-five percent of companies running AI-driven layoffs are seeing no measurable profit return. Zero. They’re not...
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Tomorrow Is May Day. The Company Already Replaced You.
Read more . . . →Tomorrow is International Workers’ Day. This year, corporations are celebrating by laying off 882 people a day. Tech alone has cut 95,000 jobs in 2026 — Meta starts firing another 8,000 on May 20, Oracle just eliminated 30,000 people to fund $156 billion in AI infrastructure. Not to survive. To accelerate. You were the cost they were looking for an excuse to cut. The framing is always the same: “toward AI,” “efficiency,” “long-term value creation.” What that means is they found the machine that does your job for less. No benefits. No vacation. No back-talk. And the record profits keep...
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