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Tesla Reportedly Laying Off Every Single Employee Working on Superchargers

Tesla Reportedly Laying Off Every Single Employee Working on Superchargers

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In an email obtained by The Information, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that hundreds more staffers were getting the axe at the EV maker, a fresh round of layoffs just weeks after a prior one. And as it turns out, entire departments that are central to the company’s core offerings are being vaporized. According to the report, senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci is leaving the company this week, alongside her 500-person-strong team. It’s a surprising development, considering the company’s Supercharger is one of Tesla’s biggest value propositions to consumers: a reliable and relatively fast way to charge that has put most other charging networks in the US to shame. It’s an especially puzzling decision given that the company’s J3400 fast-charging plug, Tesla’s North American Charging Standard, has gained a considerable amount of popularity and is actively being adopted by Tesla’s competitors, including Ford. Musk’s decision to lay off Tinucci and her entire team raises plenty of questions. Is Tesla actively moving away from installing Superchargers? Is the company perhaps looking to license the technology …

Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis | Homelessness

Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis | Homelessness

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The number of people being made homeless jumped by 16% in the final three months of last year, according to the latest government figures, which laid bare the scale of the country’s housing crisis. Figures published by the government on Tuesday show nearly 45,000 households in England were assessed as homeless in the three months to December, up from just under 39,000 during the same period in 2022. The figures also show the number of people – including children – in temporary accommodation hit record levels in 2023, triggering warnings of a housing “emergency”. Mike Amesbury, the shadow minister for homelessness, said: “These stats reveal a growing Tory housing emergency being felt by families in every part of the country. Over the past 14 years, the Tories have taken a wrecking ball to the foundation of a secure home, leaving Britain facing a homelessness epidemic. “Under this government’s watch, kids are growing up in temporary accommodation, coming home from school to do their homework on the bathroom floor of a hotel room and eating dinner …

Shockingly, Bored Apes Now Laying Off Employees as NFT Market Disintegrates

Shockingly, Bored Apes Now Laying Off Employees as NFT Market Disintegrates

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“To put it simply: Yuga lost its way.” Token of Gratitude Bored Ape Yacht Club developer Yuga Labs is laying off an unspecified number of employees as the appetite for the nonfungible tokens (NFTs) continues to evaporate. In an announcement on X-formerly-Twitter, Yuga Labs CEO Greg “Gargamel” Solano said that “some very hard, strategic decisions” had “unfortunately” included a “restructuring.” “To put it simply: Yuga lost its way,” Solano wrote. “Getting ourselves centered and on the right path means being a smaller, more agile and cryptonative team.” The news comes amid a major downturn in the NFT market, with Bored Ape NFTs that once were worth millions of dollars being sold off for a tiny fraction. But is the bizarre trend really on its way out once and for all — or are NFTs in for an imminent resurgence, as some recent reports suggest? Anything’s possible, but common sense suggests that at this point you should only invest with extreme caution. Apes of Wrath Celebrities who once shilled the drab JPGs of fatigued primates are even …

Spotify CEO Shocked That Laying Off Staff Presented A Challenge

Spotify CEO Shocked That Laying Off Staff Presented A Challenge

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Spotify is one of the biggest music platforms in the world. But even the most successful companies have their ups and downs.  After taking some financial hits, Spotify announced that it was laying off 17% of its workforce. Now, they seem to be almost regretting that decision. Spotify’s CEO was dismayed by the ‘negative impact’ of the company’s December layoffs. According to the financial publication The Street, Spotify’s CEO, Daniel Ek, made the decision to lay off 17% of the company’s employees at the end of 2023. RELATED: Worker Asks What To Do After Discovering His Job Posted Online For $10 More An Hour — ‘Someone’s Getting Fired Or Promoted’ “When Ek sent a memo to Spotify employees in December announcing the decision to shrink the company’s workforce, he claimed that economic headwinds were the reason for the company’s layoffs,” they said. His exact words to employees in the memo were, “Economic growth has slowed dramatically, and capital has become more expensive. Spotify is not an exception to these realities. This brings me to a …

CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences

CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences

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Workers? Working?!? Mind Blown Surprise! Sometimes workers do, in fact, work. In December, music streaming giant Spotify fired 1,500 workers, a cohort amounting to a staggering 17 percent of its total workforce at the time. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek chalked the culling up to cost cuts and bloat reduction, saying that too many roles had been “dedicated to supporting work and even doing work around the work rather than contributing to opportunities with real impact.” But as Fortune reports, Ek appears to have recently learned that supporting work and or even “work around the work” adds up. On an investor call this week following Spotify’s Q1 report, the streaming CEO admitted that while the layoffs were the “right strategic decision,” firing 1,500 employees “did disrupt our day-to-day operations more than we anticipated.” “It took us some time to find our footing,” Ek continued, according to Fortune, “but more than four months into this transition, think we’re back on track.” So, to recap: CEO fires nearly 20 percent of his total staff, only to discover that …

116 | Laying on of hands and Imparting the Holy Spirit

116 | Laying on of hands and Imparting the Holy Spirit

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Experts Fear Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Are Laying the Groundwork for a Nationwide Ban on Medication Abortions—And Maybe Even All Abortions

Experts Fear Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Are Laying the Groundwork for a Nationwide Ban on Medication Abortions—And Maybe Even All Abortions

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If you were worried the Supreme Court was going to ban the abortion drug mifepristone—an entirely reasonable concern given the Court’s conservative majority and the fact that it gleefully overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022—you can likely breathe easy: The consensus following Tuesday’s oral arguments is that US Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine will likely be dismissed on standing. Not because the Court’s conservatives love reproductive freedom and respect a pregnant person’s right to choose, but because the case is so embarrassingly meritless. (The plaintiffs are a group of antiabortion medical associations and doctors who don’t prescribe mifepristone themselves but claim that one day they could be put in the horrible position of treating a patient who took the drug and would be irreparably scarred from the experience—the doctors, not the patients.) So, that’s the good news. The bad, terrifying news is that archconservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito—the latter of whom, in his opinion overturning Roe, cited a 17th-century jurist who supported marital rape and had women executed—can’t just dismiss the case …

PlayStation is laying off staff. What hope is there for everyone else?

PlayStation is laying off staff. What hope is there for everyone else?

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And there are other factors at play. Gone are the days of small teams taking risks on a shoestring budget, like the iconic video game Doom (which was made by two developers) or even Minecraft, which was the brainchild of Markus “Notch” Persson. These days, when everybody is investing huge money in flagship games, nobody wants to pay for experimental titles that might not earn back what it cost to make them. Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada, who has more than 30 years experience in the industry, sums it up. Two decades ago, “development was going on at a much faster pace, with much lower labour costs than now,” he wrote recently. “Now it is completely different. Everything has become huge, all costs have skyrocketed, and it takes a lot longer.” Source link

Sony is laying off about 900 PlayStation employees

Sony is laying off about 900 PlayStation employees

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Attendees visit the PlayStation booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP Attendees visit the PlayStation booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Jeff Chiu/AP Sony Interactive Entertainment is laying off about 900 PlayStation employees worldwide, a reduction of about 8%, the company announced this week. The decision will affect all employees across several PlayStation studios in the company’s regions, which include North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. U.S. employees were notified Tuesday of the layoffs, the company said. Sony Interactive Entertainment’s London studio will close for good, and in Japan, the company will “implement a next career support program,” it said. Laid off employees will receive severance packages. “These are incredibly talented people who have been part of our success, and we are very grateful for their contributions,” Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan said. “However, the industry has changed immensely, and we need to future …

Fisker is laying off 15% of staff and says it needs more cash ahead of a ‘difficult year’

Fisker is laying off 15% of staff and says it needs more cash ahead of a ‘difficult year’

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Electric vehicle startup Fisker is planning to lay off 15% of its workforce and says it likely does not have enough cash on hand to survive the next 12 months. The company says it is trying to find a way to raise that money as it works through a pivot from direct sales to a dealership model. “[W]e have put a plan in place to streamline the company as we prepare for another difficult year,” founder and CEO Henrik Fisker said in a statement. Fisker reported more than 1,300 employees as of the end of September 2023, meaning the cut could affect close to 200 people. The company’s share price plunged 35% in after-hours trading. Fisker said Thursday that it finished 2023 with $396 million in cash, though $70 million of that is restricted. The company says it is talking with one of its lenders about making “an additional investment” in the company. It also claims it is “in negotiations with a large automaker for a potential transaction which could include an investment in Fisker, …