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- Can A Nose Job Lift Your Leadership Skills?
- The newest trend in cosmetic surgery, apparently, is nipping and tucking for your job. Not content to Botox their brows into submission merely for personal primping, workplace go-getters men as well as women are turning to appearance enhancement for career advancement. No lesser an authority than His...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Google Closes DoubleClick Deal, Hints of Layoffs
- Nearly a year after the deal was announced, Google said Wednesday it's finally closing its $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick. The official announcement came shortly after foot-dragging European regulators finally approved the acquisition. Google has surely been working on integrating DoubleClick's technology, which is focused on the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Ask.com Layoffs Point to Confused Strategy at IAC
- Interactive Corp.'s identity crisis is nearly full blown. Barry Diller, the creator and would-be dismantler of IAC, is turning the company into a textbook example of how to blur a company's brand and how to confuse and and alienate customers, employees and partners. Diller quilted together a bunch of barely-alike...
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Creative and Profitable Ways to Avoid Layoffs
- No one wants to think about layoffs right around the holidays, but for some companies, it's just reality. Take Novartis for example. After a decade of phenomenal growth, the company is now "battling with delays in product launches, a lack of innovation in its pipeline and increasing competition from generics."...
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- How to Boost Morale After Downsizing
- So far this year, Gap Inc.'s laid off 1 percent of its workforce(1,500 employees) to offset losses sustained under the direction of ex-CEO Paul Pressler. While downsizing cuts costs on paper, this presupposes remaining employees will remain productive -- which might be a challenge if workers fear for their own...
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Layoffs Without Broader Strategic Planning = Bad News
- Vonage is in serious trouble. First it lost a patent suit to Verizon, and it was ordered to pay up $58 million. Then a district court issued an injunction forcing Vonage to stop signing up new customers. And today the company announced that it would slash an undisclosed amount of...
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Tales from the Firing Line
- Letting an employee go can make your feel like the angel of death. Here's how three managers cope with the realities of bearing bad news. James Wright Position: Partner at IT staffing firm Bridge Technical Solutions. Experience: In the 1990s,...
- Articles 2007-03-20
- Can Dell Avoid the Layoff Bomb?
- Dell Computer has been suffering slow sales and stubbornly high costs, and now the company may be considering a “reduction in workforce,†according to the feature article from today’s BusinessWeek. But there are other, less painful ways to improve operational efficiency. Since revenue-per-employee is the figure most...
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Report: Lackluster Game Sales Lead To Studio Closures, Layoffs At Activision
- While rival gaming companies like EA and THQ were laying off thousands of staff earlier this year, Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) kept chugging along. No more. Slumping game sales industry-wide have forced the company to start cost-cutting; the first casualty is former Scratch the Ultimate DJ developer 7 Studios. Reports...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Forbes Layoffs Being Done Today; No Final Numbers
- Forbes, which announced its intention for additional layoffs last week, finished up with its layoffs today. No specific number could be determined, and even the company PR doesn’t know the exact number, but total estimates have been reported to be about 100, with less than half of that from...
- External links 2009-10-28
- If Zelnick Did It, Part 2, BusinessWeek Edition: Didn't Plan To Shut Mag or Mass Layoffs
- Last Friday Peter Kafka over at MediaMemo reported some details - and we picked it up—of ZelnickMedia’s bid for BusinessWeek, and if it was successful, it was supposedly planning to shut the print mag and gut the place down with content being fed in, to a large extent, by...
- External links 2009-11-03
- Time Inc Layoffs Begin; About 400-500; News Group First To Start
- The layoffs at Time Inc, intended to save abut $100 million in costs, have begun, and the news group is the first, understandably. About 15 to 20 sales and marketing employees were told today, most of them from Sports Illustrated, reports NYT. The majority of layoffs will be done...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Microsoft Cuts Another 800 Jobs; Completes Previously Announced Layoffs
- In its third round of layoffs this year, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says it is cutting 800 additional jobs today. Here’s the full statement: “Earlier this year, we announced that in order to reduce costs, increase efficiency and prioritize our focus areas, we would eliminate approximately 5,000 positions by June...
- External links 2009-11-04
- News Group Taking Most Of The Hits In Time Inc. Layoffs; 'Fortune Small Business' Closed
- Last year’s round of cuts at Time Inc. came with a major restructuring. The 2009 version is “more targeted” with most of the cuts affecting the News group, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes told analysts; that group includes Time, Sports Illustrated, Money and Fortune: “We’re aiming to...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Hearst, Time Inc. And Wenner Team Up To Boost Mag Industry's Image
- The magazine business, along with all other media, is having to fight harder than ever for ad dollars and readers. And when business is tough, apart from layoffs and mag closings, one of the simplest things to do is come up with a promotional campaign. That’s what Hearst, Time...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Report: Time Layoffs Axe Essence Magazine's Web Team
- More news about Time, Inc.‘s layoffs trickling out ... According to reports from Gawker and urban journalist blog Journalisticks.com, the company cut 18 staff from Essence magazine, including four editors and “nearly the entire” web team. This comes after a social media-centric relaunch of Essence.com last week. The sources...
- External links 2009-11-04
- United Online Cuts 5 Percent Of Its Workforce
- United Online (NSDQ: UNTD) is cutting five percent of its workforce—or about 96 jobs. The company disclosed the layoffs during an earnings call Wednesday, in which CEO Mark Goldston said the company was making the cuts to “increase efficiency.” Most of the layoffs are at United Online’s Classmates.com unit,...
- External links 2009-11-05
- EA's Riccitello: Layoffs Are 'Essential' For The Company's Digital Transformation
- The main reason for EA’s second round of mass layoffs within a single calendar year? The company is extremely bullish on digital. “As we said in previous quarters, we’re narrowing our focus to invest in core hits and digital,” said CEO John Riccitello, during the company’s Q3 (its fiscal...
- External links 2009-11-09
- AOL Begins Layoffs; 100 To Be Let Go Today
- AOL is laying off 100 staffers today, sources tell paidContent, confirming earlier reports by AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher and Valleywag. The moves are part of CEO Tim Armstrong’s “Project Everest,” which he has said is designed to look at streamlining roughly 10 individual teams at the company. Armstrong has indicated...
- External links 2009-11-10
- Adobe To Cut Nine Percent Of Its Workforce On Top Of Layoffs At Omniture
- Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is going through its second round of layoffs in a year. In an SEC filing, the company says it will cut 680 jobs worldwide, or about nine percent of its workforce. A spokeswoman tells us the company is “restructuring its business to align costs with its...
- External links 2009-11-10
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