Stock futures are slightly lower ahead of key jobs report

A trader walks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, June 27, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stock futures slipped in overnight trading follo...

Hot job market and Great Resignation persist despite recession threat

Mixetto | E+ | Getty Images Workers are still reaping the benefits of a hot labor market characterized by few layoffs, ample job openings and a high level of voluntary departures, according to U.S. De...

EU airlines face strikes, struggle to find workers post-covid summer travel

Some airlines and airports are struggling with the post-covid demand for travel. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images LONDON — Delays, cancellations and strikes. It’s been a messy time...

Tesla’s Bumpy Quarter Might Be About More Than Lockdowns in China

The smooth acceleration shown by Tesla in the past two years faltered in the second quarter. Chief Executive Elon Musk has offered hints that the problems run deeper than lockdowns in Shanghai. On Sat...

Mark Zuckerberg issues dire economic warning to Meta employees

Mark Zuckerberg has issued a chilling message to Meta Platforms Inc. employees: The company faces one of the “worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history” that will necessitate a scaling back in...

Huobi Global Plans to Layoff 30% of its Personnel Due to Multiple Factors

4 hours ago | 2 mins read Exchange News Huobi had to remove its Chinese customers by the end of December last year. Huobi has secured additional licenses in New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates. H...

Novartis Will Cut 8,000 Jobs Under CEO’s Shake-Up Plan

Text size Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis. ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images Pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Tuesday it will lay off more than 7% of its workforce, just a few months after CEO Vas N...

6 key financial steps to take after a layoff

Halfpoint Images | Moment | Getty Images 1. Take a financial inventory Among the first things to do if you lose your job is take stock of financial resources at your disposal, according to financial a...

Australian Crypto Firm Banxa Announces 30% Personnel Layoff

Banxa will allegedly reduce its workforce from 230 to 160 personnel. European Managing Director Jan Lorenc plans to depart the business in European market. According to Banxa, a crypto payments servic...

Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term

In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...

Chipotle restaurant in Maine becomes chain’s first to file for union election

A customer carries a Chipotle bag in front of a restaurant in Santa Clara, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Chipotle Mexican Grill location i...

Signs of forced labor found in China’s EV battery supply chain: Report

Hundreds of Uyghurs are working for a mining conglomerate that produces raw materials for electric vehicles as part of a so-called work transfer program in China, the New York Times reported. Shen Lon...

Powell tells Congress the Fed is ‘strongly committed’ to bringing down inflation

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told congressional lawmakers Wednesday that the central bank is determined to bring down inflation and has the ability to make that happen. “At the Fed, we...

Beyonce’s ‘Break My Soul’ is an ode to the Great Resignation

Beyoncé released a new single, “Break My Soul,” on Monday. The song references quitting a job and employee stress, alluding to the recent Great Resignation trend. Larry Busacca | PW18 | Ge...

Tesla Sued for Employee Layoffs. Musk Calls Suit Trivial.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Getty Images Employees laid off by Tesla have sued in response, giving investors in the electric-vehicle company one more issue to worry about. Employment has been on th...

The Crypto Party Is Over

On Super Bowl Sunday, a Crypto.com ad featuring billionaire NBA star LeBron James lit up millions of Americans’ TVs. “If you want to make history, you gotta call your own shots,” Mr. James said in the...

SpaceX Fires Employees Involved in Letter Critical of Elon Musk, Company

SpaceX fired some employees involved in a letter that criticized Chief Executive Elon Musk and the way the company applies internal rules, according to an email to staff from SpaceX’s president and pe...

Elon Musk had a bad week at Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter

Elon Musk pauses and looks down as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images ...

Teen summer workers are winning higher pay and more flexibility this year

When Jennifer Sutton opened her small business, Guest Haus Juicery, in September 2021, she turned to teenage workers to fill gaps in the hiring market. Sutton initially thought her two teen employees ...

36% of high earners are living paycheck to paycheck

South_agency | E+ | Getty Images More than a third of high-earning American workers feel strapped for cash — a share that has risen dramatically in recent years. Thirty-six percent of U.S. employees w...

How raising rates slows inflation

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on May 4, 2022 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images The Federal Reserve lo...

Prominent US Exchange Coinbase To Trim Its Personnel By 18%

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the crypto exchange Coinbase, Brian Armstrong has recently highlighted through a blog that they would cut down their global workforce by 18% in order to make sure ...

Crypto Is Plunging. Here Are the Stocks With the Most Exposure.

Bitcoin has plunged amid murmurs of a “crypto winter.” Dreamstime Text size Murmurs of a “crypto winter” are intensifying and shares of crypto-exposed companies are being caught up in the carnag...

Company threatens that unionizing could jeopardize gender-affirming health care

A protester waves a sign near the Country Club Plaza Starbucks store where dozens of Starbucks employees and union supporters protested alleged anti-union tactics by the company Thursday, March 3, 202...

Coinbase lays off 18% as execs prepare for recession, ‘crypto winter’

Coinbase Founder and CEO Brian Armstrong attends Consensus 2019 at the Hilton Midtown on May 15, 2019 in New York City. Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Coinbase is laying off almost a fifth of its workf...

Coinbase CEO tells workers to quit if they don’t believe in top execs, after petition for leadership changes

Coinbase Global Inc. has had a rough stretch lately, as plunging prices for cryptocurrencies have dampened trading interest and prompted the company to curtail rapid hiring plans. The company also see...

Sam Bankman Fried Will Keep Bringing Personnel In, Unlike The Others

FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried stated that he is not planning on cutting the staff from his organization, in fact. He’ll hire more amid the crypto downturn. SBF is concentrating on the extension of its wor...

Southwest Airlines customer service goes fully remote, reservations centers close

A traveler walks past a Southwest Airlines airplane as it taxies from a gate at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on October 11, 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland. Kevin Dietsch |...

Why saving in a 401(k) plan may be tough for frequent job switchers

Damircudic | E+ | Getty Images Saving in a 401(k) plan may be tough for workers who switch jobs frequently — a dynamic that’s come into greater focus amid the Great Resignation. In 2021, 14% of ...

Biden digs at Tesla CEO Elon Musk on economy, touts Ford

President Joe Biden on Friday brushed off Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s reported “super bad feeling” about the U.S. economy, while praising some of Musk’s competitors for expanding the...

Stock futures are slightly higher ahead of May’s jobs report

Trader on the floor of the NYSE, June 1, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures rose Thursday evening as investors focus their attention on more jobs data due out Friday morning. Futures tied to the Dow Jon...