62 posts and columns on work force
After Zynga Confirms 18 Percent Layoffs, It Lowers Guidance in All-In Mobile Move
More tough choices for the troubled gaming company.Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees — 18 Percent of Staff — and Shutter New York and LA Offices in Refocus on Mobile
Right-sizing the gaming giant for the mobile market.Outbox: Yahoo Mail Head Sharma Leaves Company
Signed, sealed, delivered, he’s gone.Here's Carol Bartz's Internal Layoff Memo to Beleaguered Yahoo Troops
It’s Yahoo, it’s BoomTown and so it’s an internal email memo from CEO Carol Bartz to staff about the employee layoffs at the Silicon Valley Internet giant yesterday. Said Bartz after the firing of four percent of the workforce of the Silicon Valley Internet giant: “You’ve heard me say before that I didn’t come to cut Yahoo! to greatness. That’s still true.”Nokia Stops Christmas From Coming
A colder, more brutal winter than usual for Nokia’s Finnish workforce. The company is sacking 800 employees in its home market.U.S. Tech Job Growth Was Strongest in…Oklahoma City?
The TechAmerica Foundation’s annual Cybercities report covering the state of America’s local technology job markets for 2009 (the most recent data available) paints–as you might expect–a depressing picture in all but a few of the markets surveyed.Adding Insult to Injury: Yahoo Is Prepping Layoffs, but Limited to Product Group and More Like 10 Percent
Yahoo is indeed preparing to lay off employees, in a reduction in force that will be done in December. But the layoffs, first reported in TechCrunch, will be closer to 10 percent and be almost completely centered on the product organization under Chief Product Officer Blake Irving, said sources close to the situation.Voices