The first time Julian Chavez got laid off, from his job as a digital ad sales rep atweb.com,didn’t turn him off from the tech industry. Neither did the second time, when he was laid off from ZipRecruiter. By the third time, though, Chavez had had enough. I really loved what I ...
There are also health and attitudinal consequencesfor managers who are laying people offas well as for theemployees who remain. Not surprisingly,layoffs increase people’s stress. Stress, like many attitudes and emotions, is contagious.Depression is contagious, and layoffs increase stress...
That may raise questions about the strength of the labor market as well as concerns among employees about their job security. On Friday, new government data is expected to show that businesses hired about 177,000 workers, with the jobless rate ticking up slightly to 3.8% from 3.7% in Decembe...
After laying off more than 1,000 employees in January, Google warned employees that rolling layoffs could continue through the year. The exception would be bringing aboard top engineers, Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, said during a call with analysts la...
So… tech companies are cutting tech employees across the board, and it’s almost like a fire sale in reverse. It’s so cheap and no one is going to know. So why not just pull the trigger? Did rampant over-hiring happen in the cheap money era? Absolutely. Will those folks be missed...
She was on a morning sunrise walk to get coffee with her roommate and did her routine check on Slack when she saw a companywide layoff announcement. Minutes later, she learned her role was impacted and was locked out of her company accounts soon thereafter. “I think my instant feeling ...
If you have trouble finding it, check out the guide again or Google, using the model name of your router. If you have an old or low-end router model, the option to set up a guest network might not exist. But most reasonably modern routers have it. Having selected the relevant check ...
It did this by telling remote employees they had a choice: work from a corporate office part-time or continue working remotely. So, what’s the problem? If Dell’s employees “choose” to work remotely, there’d be no travel funding for onsite meetings, no promotions, no later...
The brand essence wheel is a templated approach businesses can use to better understand their brand. The brand essence wheel has obvious implications for external brandstrategy. However, it is equally important in simplifying brandstrategyfor employees without a strong marketing background. Although many...
A few years ago, Google announced how “intrusive interstitials” aka “popups” on mobile sites would hinder ranking. Now while intelligently designed exit intent pop-ups can actually be conversion drivers, populating your whole site with multiple trigger pop-up events will just annoy customers....