Walmart Stock Falls After Report of Hundreds of Layoffs

Text size Shares of Walmart are down about 10% this year. Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Walmart is eliminating about 200 jobs in a bid to restructure the company, according to a report from The...

Walmart Lays Off Hundreds of Corporate Workers

Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate roles in a restructuring effort, according to people familiar with the matter, a week after the retail giant warned of falling profits. The retailer began noti...

Walmart lays off corporate employees after slashing forecast

Exterior view of a Walmart store on August 23, 2020 in North Bergen, New Jersey VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty Images Walmart confirmed on Wednesday that it has begun to lay off corporate employees ...

Tech companies, banks overstaffed while airlines, hotels need workers

JetBlue Airways passengers in a crowded terminal on April 7, 2022 in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images News | Getty Ima...

4.2 million people quit in June despite recession worries

A cooldown in the job market is underway: The number of job openings dropped in June while near-record numbers of people continued to quit and get hired into new roles, according to the Labor Departme...

Typical job switcher got a pay raise of nearly 10%, study finds

Morsa Images | DigitalVision | Getty Images Many workers who changed jobs recently saw raises from their new paychecks outpace inflation by a wide margin — by nearly 10% or more, according to a new st...

Boeing Stock Rises as Strike Temporarily Averted, 787 Cleared for Deliveries

Text size The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance to Boeing to begin deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner after approving the company’s plan to correct production problems with the aircra...

Defense Companies Hurt by Staffing Shortages Amid Growing Weapons Demand

July 30, 2022 11:04 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) U.S. defense companies are experiencing staffing shortages when the war in Ukraine and tensions surrounding Taiwan are expected to stoke demand ...

Pilots describe toxic culture and airline errors

The chaos engulfing many major airports in North America and Europe since summer began hasn’t abated much, and news outlets and social media users continue to report on hordes of impatient trave...

Prominent Game Studio Immutable Lays Off 6% of its Personnel

5 hours ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News A value of $2.5 billion was put out by Immutable after a $200 million round of funding. TikTok and GameStop have just developed an NFT marketplace using Immutabl...

U.S. economy probably barely grew last quarter and may have contracted

Shipping containers are seen at a terminal inside the Port of Oakland as independent truck driver continue protesting against California’s new law known as AB5, in Oakland, California, July 21, ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he does not think the U.S. is currently in a recession

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday he does not believe the U.S. economy is in a recession as the central bank raised rates further to fight inflation. “I do not think the U.S....

How the Federal Reserve fights inflation through interest rate hikes

Top officials at the Federal Reserve were seeing inflation data come in very hot for months before policymakers moved to wind down monetary policies that were stimulating the economy. A chorus of anal...

Microsoft stock jumps after ‘shockingly robust’ forecast calls for continued strong cloud growth

Microsoft Corp. missed expectations for profit and revenue in a Tuesday earnings report, as deteriorating economic conditions led to an even greater shock than expected when executives revised their g...

Robots are making french fries, chicken wings and more as restaurant kitchens gear up for an automated future

One of the first investments from Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.’s venture fund Cultivate Next is in Hyphen, a San Jose, Calif.-based robotics company whose product, The Makeline, organizes digital order...

Why CEO Mary Barra is confident GM can beat Tesla in electric vehicles

GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra addresses investors Oct. 6, 2021 at the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan. Photo by Steve Fecht for General Motors DETROIT — In September 2017, General Motors CEO Mary Bar...

UK faces a summer of strikes as historic inflation and falling real wages bite

LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 25: A view of the crowd at the RMT strike rally at Kings cross station on June 25, 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The biggest rail strikes in 30 years started on Monday n...

It’s the end of ‘fantasyland’ for Big Tech and its workers

After Big Tech grew in unprecedented and unchecked fashion for a decade, building ostentatious palaces to house growing workforces while plying them luxuriant freebies to keep them from defecting to r...

Ford Plans to Cut Several Thousand Salaried Jobs

Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut several thousand white-collar workers as it looks to trim costs to position the company for a long-range transition to electric vehicles, according to people familiar...

Goldman Sachs looking at reinstating year-end job cuts as economic outlook dims

People walk by the New York Stock Exchange on May 12, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Goldman Sachs has slowed its hiring and is looking to cut the fees that it...

All Jobs Businesses Cut in Pandemic Are Back, but Not Where They Were Lost

Private-sector payrolls exceeded prepandemic levels in June, taking just over two years to close a 21 million job gap that was created in the spring of 2020 and reshaping the labor market in the proce...

Customer service suffers at short-staffed restaurants as Covid takes toll

A waiter works at a restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 3, 2022. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images Jeff Rothenberg has grown accustomed to long wait times at restaurants, even when tables ...

Rivian CEO Hosted an All-Hands Meeting. What Was Discussed.

Text size Electric-truck start-up Rivian recently announced layoffs. Courtesy Rivian Fast-growing electric-truck start-up Rivian Automotive is laying off workers. The news surprised the market earlier...

Georgia District Approves Weapons For Some School Employees—Here’s Where Else School Personnel Can Be Armed

Topline One of the largest school districts in Georgia on Thursday voted to allow some employees who are not police officers to carry guns in schools, two months after the deadliest school shooting si...

How inflation can hurt and help consumers, according to economists

A person shops for groceries on March 10, 2022 in the Prospect Lefferts Garden neighborhood of Brooklyn. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images Inflation hit a new 40-year high in June...

Microsoft and Gopuff Are Latest Tech Firms to Cut Jobs

Microsoft is cutting a small percentage of its staff, the latest in a string of layoffs by high-profile tech companies. The software maker said it is cutting a number of positions, affecting less than...

Auto dealerships are facing a shortage of technicians to fix cars. Here’s why

It’s not just hard to buy a new car these days — it’s getting tough to even get one fixed. There just aren’t enough workers to do the job. Dealers and auto repair shops are strugglin...

Twitter Faces Renewed Questions on Path Ahead as Elon Musk Tries to Abandon Deal

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Strike at Machinery Maker CNH Industrial Grinds On as Talks Stall

Negotiations between CNH Industrial NV and the equipment maker’s striking workers have hit a stalemate, deepening supply-chain problems with farm and construction equipment. Bargaining sessions betwee...

Twitter Didn’t Seek a Sale. Now Elon Musk Doesn’t Want to Buy. Cue Strange Legal Drama.

Elon Musk’s showdown with Twitter has set the stage for what could become one of the most unusual courtroom battles in corporate-takeover history—a spurned acquisition target that never sought to be b...

Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

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Involuntary part-time worker numbers dip to lowest level in 21 years

Momo Productions | Digitalvision | Getty Images The number of Americans who want to work full-time but are forced to work part-time jobs declined in June to its lowest in more than 20 years, according...