Do you want to receive our latest updates right away? Follow us on Google! Stay up to date with the latest news on jobs and the economy. IKEA is doing something it hasn’t done in more than four decades: closing one of its iconic blue-box warehouses in its home country of Sweden. The Borlänge store … Read more
The federal courtroom in Oakland, California, is doing something that no journalist has managed in nearly a decade: forcing Sam Altman, the most powerful figure in artificial intelligence, into the open. The Musk v. Altman trial — now in its second week — has cracked open a sealed archive of internal emails, executive diaries, text … Read more
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has long been one of the most prestigious employers in the federal government, with more than 107,000 employees spread across 40+ components. But 2026 is a paradoxical year: while the agency has lost over 11,200 positions since 2024 under the Trump administration, roughly 7,000 vacancies remain unfilled, and … Read more
The United States added 115,000 jobs in April 2026, double economists’ expectations and the second consecutive month of growth. But behind the figure that surprised Wall Street lies a much more complex reality: inflation is running at 3.3%, the tech sector has lost jobs for the sixteenth consecutive month, and the Federal Reserve is running … Read more
Tech giant cuts 30,000 corporate roles to shift resources into AI, restructuring management and accelerating automation.
Do you want to receive our latest updates right away? Follow us on Google! Stay up to date with the latest news on jobs and the economy. Coinbase Cuts 700 Employees and Rebuilds Around AI On May 5, 2026, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced one of the most discussed layoffs in tech this year: approximately … Read more
In the first four months of 2026, more than 170,000 workers across eight major industries have already lost their jobs, with tech layoffs 2026 accounting for the single largest share of workforce reductions globally. From Silicon Valley giants to Wall Street banks and legacy retail chains, the wave of cuts that began in late 2025 … Read more
Explains WARN Act notice rules, employer thresholds, state mini‑WARN differences, exceptions, and penalties for noncompliance.
The White House just accused China of stealing American artificial intelligence at mass scale. Congress is alarmed. Silicon Valley is furious. And somewhere in all of that outrage, nobody is asking the obvious question: who’s actually paying for this arms race? Not the CEOs. Not the shareholders. Not the policymakers drafting memos in Washington. The … Read more
Remote work didn’t just empty office buildings. It wiped out entire ecosystems of jobs around them — and in 2026, we’re still counting the bodies. Lock 27 Brewing, an award-winning craft brewery out of Dayton, Ohio, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 22. Assets: under $50,000. Liabilities: up to $10 million. It closed its … Read more