Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump
Benioff also owns TIME magazine, which named Trump Person of the Year in 2024. — #Salesforce #Dreamforce $CRM — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u... Jennifer Elias / @jennelias : “It saddens me immense...
Leaked audio and memos: at a heated all-hands, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi defended upping required in-office days to three per week, saying “it is what it is”
In response to irate employees, Uber's CEO said “If you're here for a sabbatical and this change causes you to change your mind, it is what it is” Lora Kolodny / @lorak : Uber employees and leaders cl...
Internal documents: several Google units have notified remote workers that their jobs will be in jeopardy if they don't show up at the office three days a week
Return To Office 3 Days A Week Or Take A Buyout: Report Moneycontrol : Google's warning message to some remote workers: Come back to office or lose your... Bluesky: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The...
Sources: Google laid off 200+ employees from its Core teams, including IT and its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to India and Mexico
unless it's your smartphone Ann Resuma / International Business Times : Google Lays Off 200 ‘Core’ Employees; Eyes Shifting Some Roles To India, Mexico Alice Nunwick / Verdict : Google lays off 200 US...
Documents: Google cuts back on fitness classes, tape, staplers, and the frequency of staff laptop replacements; non-engineers will get a Chromebook by default
& maybe even 5 — this year https://www.cnbc.com/... Patricia Aas / @pati_gallardo : If a Google engineer costs 125K (which iiuc is lowballing it) then they cost about a dollar a minute. Making someone...
In an email, Google's Search SVP tells staff to rewrite Bard's bad responses in a “neutral tone” and to “not imply emotion” as the tool “learns best by example”
Jennifer Elias / CNBC :
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...
Internal documents detail Google's new performance review process, estimating 6% of full-time employees will get low ratings starting in 2023, versus 2% before
Jennifer Elias / CNBC :
Some Google staff say they are getting a lot of COVID-19 exposure notifications after returning to office; unvaccinated staff ask Google to drop vaccine mandate
- Google employees say they've been receiving a deluge of Covid exposure notifications since being asked to return to offices. Tweets: @jenn_elias and @jenn_elias . Thanks: @mattrosoff Tweets: Jennife...
Sources: Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time since agreeing to buy the company in April, discussing potential layoffs, moderation, and more
here's why. Shalini Nagarajan / Blockworks : Elon Musk Teases Crypto Integration At His First Twitter All-Hands Abhishek Mishra / Fossbytes : Elon Musk's First Meeting With Twitter Employees Transcrip...