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  • Disney lays off more than 300 streaming-focused employees in China

    Walter Disney Co. DIS 2.16% has laid off more than 300 Beijing employees working on its streaming services, according to people familiar with the situation, as part of a cost-cutting and restructuring effort at the entertainment company. The layoffs in China come after Disney this week began implementing the first wave of cuts in a […]

  • Disney is eliminating its Metaverse division as part of the company’s layoff plan

    Mickey Mouse has left the metaverse. Walter Disney Co. DIS 1.64% has eliminated its next-generation storytelling and consumer experience division, the small division that people familiar with the situation said was working on metaverse strategies, as part of a broader restructuring that is expected to reduce company-wide workforce by approximately 7,000 over the next two […]

  • The glory days of working from home are behind us

    Image: atMedia (Shutterstock) Well it was a great run. Gone are the days when you woke up two minutes before your first meeting and checked your inbox in your pajamas according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which states that the pandemic-era work-from-home boom is finally fading. According to a report from the […]

  • Twitter offers new stock exchanges to staff

    Twitter Inc. is offering new equity grants to staff who vest after six months, according to an email sent late Friday, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The company plans to offer a liquidity event in about a year, where employees can cash in some of their equity, the email shows. The number […]

  • We want to retire in about 5 years, but have $150,000 in credit card debt and loans and $1.4 million in retirement accounts – ‘we really want to be retired’

    I am trying to get some outside guidance to be able to retire in the next 5 years Unpleasant 7 years. I amI have to work until I am 59 1/2 to use retirement funds. We have about $1.4 million in 401(k) and Roth accounts, $30,000 in stock, a rental house that we owe $245,000 […]

  • Accenture is cutting 19,000 jobs as IT spending declines

    Accenture PLC is cutting around 19,000 jobs over the next 18 months, or 2.5% of its workforce, as the professional services company looks to cut costs and streamline operations amid declining IT spending. The company, which offers IT consulting and other business services, said in a filing filed Thursday that most of the employees expected […]

  • Amazon plans to lay off another 9,000 employees

    Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a statement that the company has added a significant number of employees in recent years, a move he defended as necessary given what was happening in Amazon’s business at the time. “Given the uncertain economy we live in, and the uncertainty that exists for the foreseeable future, we have […]

  • Virgin Orbit, Richard Branson’s satellite launch, has fallen fast

    Two months ago, Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit VORB -9.14% Holdings Inc. was about to make history by launching the first satellites into orbit from the billionaire’s homeland of the UK That high-profile launch from Cornwall, England went badly, ending in the destruction of the satellite payload and sparking an investigation into what went wrong. Virgin […]

  • Uber, Lyft win as California court upholds right to treat drivers like contractors

    Uber Technologies Inc., UBER -0.93% Lyft Inc. LYFT -2.87% and other companies won a California court ruling that maintains their model of independent contractors in the state and could boost their efforts to maintain that model elsewhere. A state appeals court said workers should continue to be treated as independent contractors under a California ballot […]

  • Meta is planning new layoffs similar to last year’s

    Facebook Parental Meta Platforms Inc. META -1.20% plans to announce additional rounds of layoffs in the coming months that would total about the same as last year’s 13% headcount cut, according to people familiar with the matter. The new cuts, the first wave of which is expected to be announced next week, are likely to […]