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Tech Startup Stripe Accidentally Put a Cartoon Duck in Their Lay Off Email

Oops, you’re out of work. Lolz.

01.22.25

By Luis Prada
Tech

Filming Your Remote Layoff Is the Hottest Dystopian Trend (for A Very Good Reason)

01.18.24

By Maxwell Strachan
Tech

‘I Got to Break Free’: Laid-Off Tech Workers Search For New Purpose Outside Silicon Valley

05.18.23

By Maxwell Strachan
Tech

CNET Workers Unionize as ‘Automated Technology Threatens Our Jobs’

05.16.23

By Jules Roscoe
Tech

The Future Is Here, and It’s Being Sent Home To Wait To Find Out if You’ve Lost Your Job

04.04.23

By Maxwell Strachan
Tech

Lawyers Unsure Whether Workers Who Agreed Not To Can Now Disparage Former Bosses

02.24.23

By Maxwell Strachan
Tech

Companies Can’t Ask You to Shut up to Receive Severance, NLRB Rules

02.21.23

By Maxwell Strachan
Tech

Real Estate Giant Compass to Lay Off Significant Number of Tech Employees

09.20.22

By Maxwell Strachan
Tech

CEO Posted Crying Selfie After Layoffs To Show Execs Are ‘Normal People’ Too

08.10.22

By Maxwell Strachan
Tech

Business Is Booming for Layoff Specialists: ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’

08.09.22

By Maxwell Strachan
Tech

Coinbase Cuts Employees’ Access to Work Email, Docs Before Laying Them Off

06.14.22

By Maxwell Strachan
Tech

TomTom Says Its New Automation Tools Are So Good It Will Lay Off 500 Employees

06.02.22

By Aaron Gordon

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