Microsoft has announced several new intiatives to help train the global workforce in using generative AI. It said the technology has potential but people need to know how to use it effectively.
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Spotify has confirmed it is laying off 200 team members, or 2 percent of its total workforce. The layoffs will come from its podcast division. It will also combine its Parcast and Gimlet studios.
Finnish company Salcomp plans to more than double its India workforce to 25,000 over the next two to three years, while also building housing arrangements and education for about 15,000 people.
Yahoo has joined the list of tech companies eliminating thousands of employees for strategic reasons. In an interview, Yahoo executives inform that the company is eliminating 1600 employees.
PayPal has become one of the latest firms to announce major layoffs. The payments platform says that it will let go of 2,000 employees in the coming weeks in a bid to reduce operating expenses.
Arm has confirmed that it is cutting nearly 1,000 jobs in the wake of its failed Nvidia deal. The removal of "redundant" personnel will primarily impact those in the U.S. and the UK.
Thanks to a strong economy as of early this year, employers faced workforce shortages and difficulties in finding, recruiting and retaining staff across the care continuum, find out more.
Vodafone and Digital Barriers have developed a heat detection camera which can securely stream images to a laptop or phone with a warning if it believes someone has a fever, a symptom of COVID-19.
Last month, the firm opened up 100,000 jobs amidst increased demand. Now the firm has stated that all those positions have been filled up and a further 75,000 people will be hired.
Microsoft is aiming to address the growing AI skills gap with its new partnership with General Assembly. Three core areas have been outlined by the companies as part of this collaboration.
According to an internally conducted survey, many Microsoft employees believe that their base pay along with additional bonuses are not good enough in comparison to similar jobs at other companies.
As Smith emailed staff to reassure them over new US border control concerns, Microsoft's CEO said that "as an immigrant" himself, he'd "experienced and seen the positive impact" of immigration.
Many tech companies, with employees from around the world, have reacted with concern to new border controls affecting travellers from seven nations - including those who already hold US green cards.
In a new report highlighting diversity, Apple has stated that 32% of its workforce now consists of women, and that it has reached pay equity for all its employees in the US, regardless of ethnicity.
Seagate has ended its most recent financial quarter on a high note with the company beating its own revenue and profit expectations. But it also announced it will lay off 6,500 workers.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has said that the company's three-year restructuring - which has seen its workforce reduced by 60% to just 7,000 - is now over, and BlackBerry will soon begin hiring again.
Twitter's workforce of nearly 3,000 people faces a serious diversity issue, company execs say. Recent data shows that nearly 90 percent of the social media site's employees are white or Asian.
Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd decided that HP's future was in the more lucrative world of corporate service contracts when they purchased Electronic Data Systems in May of this year. That move placed them in...
Dell Incorporated has announced plans to cut costs by reducing its global workforce by 10%. Dell currently has a global workforce of over 88,000 employees and expects to trim more than 8,000 employees over the...
By the end of 2008, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to lay off around 11% of its 40,000-person global workforce as part of what the company calls its long term commitment to the hard disc...
As reported by various websites, Electronic Arts has notified around 350 of their employees (about 5% of their employees) that they will be no longer needed at the company due to EA being in a...
AMD today announced that 2,000 people, or approximately 15 per cent of staff, will lose their jobs by the end of the second quarter of 2003. The announcement is part of the company's...
Microsoft Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit easily surpassed its bare-bones profit from a year ago, but fell far short of analysts' expectations because of telecom-related investment losses. Microsoft announced Thursday that for the quarter...
