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Spotify’s HR chief says remote staff aren’t ‘children’ as company sticks to work-from-anywhere policy

Amid a raft of return-to-office mandates from tech giants, including Amazon and iPhone challenger Nothing, Spotify sees no need to treat its staff like “children” and end its popular work-from-home policy. Spotify went through an overhaul in 2023, laying off 17% of its staff in December in a move CEO Daniel Ek acknowledged had a … Read more

DeepMind UK staff seek to unionise and challenge defence deals and Israel links

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google DeepMind staff in the UK are seeking to unionise in an effort to challenge the company’s decision to sell its artificial intelligence technologies to defence groups and ties to the Israeli government. Around 300 … Read more

Hospitality turns to baby boomers to ease staff shortage

As a former prison director, Trevor Wilson Smith spent much of his career dealing with teenagers who had committed a serious crime. Now he is solving the problems of hotel guests at a luxury country retreat in North Yorkshire. The 68-year-old came out of retirement in 2022 to work as a concierge on the sprawling … Read more

Thousands of Urine and Tissue Samples Are in Danger of Rotting After Staff Cuts at a CDC Laboratory

Cathy Tinney-Zara, a worker at NIOSH’s Morgantown facility who spoke to WIRED in her capacity as the union representative, says that before they lost their jobs, the researchers at the facility had been actively studying how Gulf War soldiers were affected by exposure to Mustard Gas, how pregnant workers have been affected by exposure to … Read more

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X

The Social Security Administration will no longer be communicating with the media and the public through press releases and “dear colleague” letters, as it shifts its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. The news comes amid major staffing cuts at the agency. “We are no longer planning to issue press releases or those … Read more

Google is allegedly paying some AI staff to do nothing for a year rather than join rivals

Retaining top AI talent is tough amid cutthroat competition between Google, OpenAI, and other heavyweights. Google’s AI division, DeepMind, has resorted to using “aggressive” noncompete agreements for some AI staff in the U.K. that bar them from working for competitors for up to a year, Business Insider reports. Some are paid during this time, in … Read more

Microsoft reportedly fires staff whose protest interrupted its Copilot event

On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event last week. According to an internal message viewed by CNBC, Microsoft wrote that Aboussad could have raised concerns “confidentially with your manager, … Read more

Acting SEC chair Uyeda directs staff to review statements on investment contract framework, Bitcoin futures fund guidance

Key Takeaways Acting SEC Chairman Mark Uyeda is reviewing past crypto regulatory statements as part of Executive Order 14192. The review aims to modify or rescind statements to align with current SEC priorities. Share this article Mark Uyeda, acting chair of the US SEC, has directed staff to review several crypto-related regulatory statements, including guidance … Read more

WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals. Ahead of the layoffs, Automattic’s website listed 1,744 employees, which means north of 270 people may have lost their jobs. (Automattic … Read more

Mike Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, NSC confirms

The National Security Council (NSC) has clarified reporting about National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and his staffers using personal Gmail accounts for government communications. A report published by the Washington Post on Tuesday claimed that one of Waltz’s senior aides used Gmail “for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military … Read more

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