OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained
including the underlying technology, reliability, speed, quality, [and] experience” and to achieve this upgrade they are laying off half the employees at the company. OpenSea was valued at $13.3 bill...
Yelp closes its NY, Chicago, and Washington DC offices as CEO Jeremy Stoppelman doubles down on remote work and calls hybrid offices “the worst of both worlds”
Danielle Abril / Washington Post :
Grocery app Buyk, which was founded by two Russians and has sizable operations in New York and Chicago, furloughs ~98% of its employees amid sanctions on Russia
Theo Wayt / New York Post :
Grocery app Buyk, which was founded by two Russians and has sizable operations in New York and Chicago, furloughs ~98% of its employees amid sanctions on Russia
Theo Wayt / New York Post :
Amazon is quietly transitioning its US warehouse workers to 10-hour graveyard shifts; labor experts say the move is to cut costs and pay for fewer benefits
The company has been quietly transitioning warehouse workers at Amazon warehouses nationwide to a 10-hour graveyard shift, known as the “megacycle.” Tweets: @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @selenalarson ,...
Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work
money that will go plenty further somewhere else.” Great piece by @NellieBowles https://www.nytimes.com/... JP Mangalindan / @jpmanga : Ironically, that's my old SF apartment building in the photo. ht...
Groupon says CEO Rich Williams and COO Steve Krenzer “no longer” in their roles, but continue to work at Groupon; N. America business head appointed interim CEO
Groupon CEO Rich Williams is out. — The move comes about a month after the Chicago-based deals site reported …
After tests in Chicago, Uber to expand Uber Works, its marketplace for short-term jobs in hospitality, events, light industrial, and other sectors, to Miami
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg :
Coinbase shuts down Coinbase Markets, its Chicago-based high-speed crypto trading division opened a year ago, eliminating 30 jobs
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
Profile of Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, one of the top Fortnite players in the world who shot to fame in March after he played the game with Drake
On a sweltering afternoon in Chicago, with the bass from the closest stage at Lollapalooza booming in the background …