Sidney Rothstein

I was so busy following layoffs at Meta, Twitter, and elsewhere, that I missed the *10k* jobs that will be cut at Alphabet.

The letter from their activist shareholder is astounding:
- cut jobs
- cut salaries
- increase stock buybacks

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/11/21/alphabet-seeks-to-cut-10000-poor-performing-googlers

"Layoffs literally kill people"

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Then you'll see even more friends, keep scrolling until you get to "Labor Politics" -- that's us!

Once you're there, scroll all the way to the bottom, say hi to your friends on the way, and click on "Related Groups"

First, click on "submit a division, related group, etc."

As you're scrambling to finish that paper proposal for APSA, I invite you to submit your proposal to the Labor Politics group

- not sure if your proposal qualifies as "labor politics"? DM me

- but where to find us on APSA's awesome website? let's take a journey together🚶🚶 -->

How it started / how it’s going

Professional-managerial crash #pmc

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/doordash-to-lay-off-1-250-employees-as-ceo-says-costs-grew-too-fast-11669815773

White-collar recession

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-11-28/tech-finance-layoffs-recession-hiring

Talked tech layoffs on WAMC today -- I can't listen to my own voice, but you can catch the segment here:

https://www.wamc.org/news/2022-11-28/recoding-power-tactics-for-mobilizing-tech-workers-author-williams-professor-explores-novel-labor-responses-to-tumultuous-sector

As someone deeply familiar with the dot-com crash of the 2000s, I insist on getting all my news about this one from Yahoo

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/when-will-the-big-tech-layoffs-come-to-an-end-204850019.html