#jobcuts — Public Fediverse posts

ICYMI: The Trade Desk cuts about 575 jobs after growth slows to 3%: The Trade Desk cut about 15% of its staff on September 4 after second-quarter revenue grew just 3%, its slowest rate since 2020, with guidance pointing lower. https://ppc.land/the-trade-desk-cuts-about-575-jobs-after-growth-slows-to-3/ #TheTradeDesk #JobCuts #TechIndustry #BusinessNews #Layoffs

ICYMI: The Trade Desk cuts about 575 jobs after growth slows to 3%: The Trade Desk cut about 15% of its staff on September 4 after second-quarter revenue grew just 3%, its slowest rate since 2020, with guidance pointing lower. https://ppc.land/the-trade-desk-cuts-about-575-jobs-after-growth-slows-to-3/ #TheTradeDesk #JobCuts #TechIndustry #BusinessNews #Layoffs

ICYMI: The Trade Desk cuts about 575 jobs after growth slows to 3%: The Trade Desk cut about 15% of its staff on September 4 after second-quarter revenue grew just 3%, its slowest rate since 2020, with guidance pointing lower. https://ppc.land/the-trade-desk-cuts-about-575-jobs-after-growth-slows-to-3/ #TheTradeDesk #JobCuts #TechIndustry #BusinessNews #Layoffs

The Trade Desk cuts about 575 jobs after growth slows to 3%: The Trade Desk cut about 15% of its staff on September 4 after second-quarter revenue grew just 3%, its slowest rate since 2020, with guidance pointing lower. https://ppc.land/the-trade-desk-cuts-about-575-jobs-after-growth-slows-to-3/ #TheTradeDesk #JobCuts #TechNews #BusinessUpdate #EconomicGrowth

The Trade Desk cuts about 575 jobs after growth slows to 3%: The Trade Desk cut about 15% of its staff on September 4 after second-quarter revenue grew just 3%, its slowest rate since 2020, with guidance pointing lower. https://ppc.land/the-trade-desk-cuts-about-575-jobs-after-growth-slows-to-3/ #TheTradeDesk #JobCuts #TechNews #BusinessUpdate #EconomicGrowth

The Trade Desk cuts about 575 jobs after growth slows to 3%: The Trade Desk cut about 15% of its staff on September 4 after second-quarter revenue grew just 3%, its slowest rate since 2020, with guidance pointing lower. https://ppc.land/the-trade-desk-cuts-about-575-jobs-after-growth-slows-to-3/ #TheTradeDesk #JobCuts #TechNews #BusinessUpdate #EconomicGrowth

The Trade Desk cuts about 575 jobs after growth slows to 3%: The Trade Desk cut about 15% of its staff on September 4 after second-quarter revenue grew just 3%, its slowest rate since 2020, with guidance pointing lower. https://ppc.land/the-trade-desk-cuts-about-575-jobs-after-growth-slows-to-3/ #TheTradeDesk #JobCuts #TechNews #BusinessUpdate #EconomicGrowth

The Trade Desk cuts about 575 jobs after growth slows to 3%: The Trade Desk cut about 15% of its staff on September 4 after second-quarter revenue grew just 3%, its slowest rate since 2020, with guidance pointing lower. https://ppc.land/the-trade-desk-cuts-about-575-jobs-after-growth-slows-to-3/ #TheTradeDesk #JobCuts #TechNews #BusinessUpdate #EconomicGrowth

Biggest restructuring deal ever eases crisis at Volkswagen

Volkswagen shares hit an 11-week high Friday after the supervisory board of ⁠Europe’s largest automaker struck an ⁠ambitious…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Volkswagen #autoindustry #automanufacturers #automarket #jobcuts #jobs #restructuring #VW
https://www.europesays.com/germany/85416/

Volkswagen Board Approves 50,000 More Job Cuts; Four German Plants Face June 2027 Deadline

Employees of Volkswagen work on an assembly line at the company’s plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Volkswagen #electricvehicles #FuturePlan2030 #IGMetall #jobcuts #volkswagenrestructuring2026 #VWplantclosuresGermany
https://www.europesays.com/germany/85196/

Volkswagen board approves cutting 50,000 more jobs and closing 4 plants

By DAVID McHUGH, AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen’s board of directors on Thursday approved a…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #automanufacturingplants #jobcuts #Volkswagen
https://www.europesays.com/germany/84382/

Radio New Zealand: Almost 50 jobs could go at National Library and Archives, PSA warns. “A proposal to cut 12 percent of the workforce at the National Library and Archives NZ will decimate both organisations and have a significant impact on service levels, says the Public Service Association (PSA).”

Radio New Zealand: Almost 50 jobs could go at National Library and Archives, PSA warns. “A proposal to cut 12 percent of the workforce at the National Library and Archives NZ will decimate both organisations and have a significant impact on service levels, says the Public Service Association (PSA).”

Radio New Zealand: Almost 50 jobs could go at National Library and Archives, PSA warns. “A proposal to cut 12 percent of the workforce at the National Library and Archives NZ will decimate both organisations and have a significant impact on service levels, says the Public Service Association (PSA).”

Radio New Zealand: Almost 50 jobs could go at National Library and Archives, PSA warns. “A proposal to cut 12 percent of the workforce at the National Library and Archives NZ will decimate both organisations and have a significant impact on service levels, says the Public Service Association (PSA).”

Radio New Zealand: Almost 50 jobs could go at National Library and Archives, PSA warns. “A proposal to cut 12 percent of the workforce at the National Library and Archives NZ will decimate both organisations and have a significant impact on service levels, says the Public Service Association (PSA).”

FYI: Amazon HR chief wrote 100,000 lines of code after cutting 30,000 jobs: Galetti's internal build contest drew more than 1,500 employees in a few weeks. Amazon is now staking $2.5 billion on preparing 50 million people for AI work. https://ppc.land/amazon-hr-chief-wrote-100-000-lines-of-code-after-cutting-30-000-jobs/ #Amazon #AI #TechJobs #Coding #JobCuts

ICYMI: Amazon HR chief wrote 100,000 lines of code after cutting 30,000 jobs: Galetti's internal build contest drew more than 1,500 employees in a few weeks. Amazon is now staking $2.5 billion on preparing 50 million people for AI work. https://ppc.land/amazon-hr-chief-wrote-100-000-lines-of-code-after-cutting-30-000-jobs/ #Amazon #AI #JobCuts #Technology #Workforce

Amazon HR chief wrote 100,000 lines of code after cutting 30,000 jobs: Galetti's internal build contest drew more than 1,500 employees in a few weeks. Amazon is now staking $2.5 billion on preparing 50 million people for AI work. https://ppc.land/amazon-hr-chief-wrote-100-000-lines-of-code-after-cutting-30-000-jobs/ #Amazon #AI #JobCuts #TechInnovation #Workforce

Sodexo to trim over 1,000 jobs in France under restructuring push

French food services and catering firm Sodexo has announced plans to cut more tha…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchfood #employee #EmployeeEngagement #employees #employer #employment #foodservicecompany #francais #france #French #frenchfood #hr #humanresources #jobcuts #layoff #restructuring #Sodexo #Workforce #workplace
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2790269/sodexo-to-trim-over-1000-jobs-in-france-under-restructuring-push/

Sodexo to trim over 1,000 jobs in France under restructuring push https://www.diningandcooking.com/2790269/sodexo-to-trim-over-1000-jobs-in-france-under-restructuring-push/ #employee #EmployeeEngagement #employees #employer #employment #FoodServiceCompany #francais #france #French #FrenchFood #hr #HumanResources #JobCuts #layoff #restructuring #Sodexo #Workforce #workplace

WZTV: TikTok closes Nashville office as tech giant realigns its operations. “Tech giant TikTok confirmed to FOX 17 News that the company is closing its Nashville office, only two years after signing the lease. The office, located on Music Row, is closing to streamline operations that better line up with the team’s long-term growth. According to the Nashville Business Journal, all staff at the […]

#Mondaycom is the latest #tech company to cite #AI as a factor in #jobcuts, joining a growing list of companies including #Microsoft, #Oracle, and #Meta. While these companies emphasise AI’s role in #transforming their #operations and driving growth, the market remains sceptical, with companies citing AI underperforming the Nasdaq. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/the-running-list-major-tech-layoffs-in-2026-where-employers-cited-ai/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Reuters: US judge won’t block Meta from laying off workers who filed AI discrimination lawsuit. “A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a bid by 26 employees of Meta Platforms to block the tech giant from laying them off while they pursue claims ​that they were targeted for job cuts by the company’s AI-powered tools because they have disabilities or took medical leave.”

Reuters: AI will not trigger employment collapse, staffing company Adecco Group says. “Denis ​Machuel, CEO of Zurich-based Adecco, the world’s largest staffing company, told Reuters some companies were using AI as a cover for cuts caused by weaker performance, restructuring or other ​problems.”

A group of employees has sued Meta, alleging the tech giant relied on AI-driven tools that unfairly selected workers with disabilities, medical conditions and approved leave for redundancy during its latest round of layoffs.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/meta-sued-over-claims-ai-selected-staff-with-medical-conditions-for-layoffs?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=July_Meta

#technews #meta #ai #layoffs #jobcuts

Wall Street Journal: Big tech has suddenly flipped on the AI jobs wipeout scenario. “The sentiment change isn’t limited to tech leaders: A survey by EY-Parthenon found that the percentage of CEOs who believe AI investments will result in significant reductions in head count fell from around 46% in January 2025 to just 20% this May.”

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/08/microsoft-cuts-4800-jobs-as-xbox-faces-major-reset-xcxwbn/

Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs as Xbox and commercial sales absorb the heaviest impact, while AI-era spending pressure tests Microsoft's wider restructuring plan.

#AI #Microsoft #Xbox #Layoffs #JobCuts #BigTechLayoffs #MicrosoftGaming #Gaming #GamingIndustry #XboxGameStudios

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/02/microsoft-reportedly-plans-job-cuts-across-xbox-and-sales-xcxwbn/

Microsoft reportedly plans layoffs across Xbox, sales and consulting as artificial intelligence costs intensify fiscal pressure; the plan is unconfirmed.

#Microsoft #Xbox #MicrosoftGaming #Layoffs #JobCuts #MicrosoftEmployees

Oracle's idea of "embracing AI" apparently involves a massive game of musical chairs, with 21,000 employees left standing. 🤖💼 Because nothing says "futuristic innovation" like cutting a fifth of your #workforce while hoping some machine will magically save the day. 🎩✨
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gy0x0j5deo #Oracle #AI #Innovation #JobCuts #FutureOfWork #HackerNews #ngated

Gizmodo: Layoffs Reportedly Hit Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Startup. “Since launching in 2023, World has failed to reach its ambitious goal of scanning a billion people or about an eighth of the world’s population. As of April, the company says it had verified nearly 18 million people via its Orb device. That’s less than 2 percent of its goal. Now, it seems the company is […]

Boing Boing: Site tracks significant US layoffs. “The US Layoffs Tracker is updated daily with the latest disclosures under the WARN Act, which requires employers with 100 or more workers to give 60 days notice before major layoffs or site closures. Though only a portion of the countless people fired, made redundant, pushed into resignation or otherwise removed from their jobs, it shows where […]

Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/demis-hassabis-ai-layoffs-deepmind-google-io/ #AI #AILayoffs #JobCuts #DemisHassabis #Google #DeepMind #productivity

New York Times: The Morale of Tech Workers Is Plunging as Layoffs Mount. This link goes to a gift article. “Cooperation and collegiality are on the wane; chumminess between employees and managers has cooled as mutual suspicion pervades their relationships; and a throbbing economic anxiety infects almost every conversation. Perhaps no site on the internet reflects this transformation more […]

Standard Chartered Plans Major Job Reductions and AI Integration by 2030

📰 Original title: StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace 'Lower-Value Human Capital'

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/standard-chartered-plans-major-job-reductions-and-ai-integration-by-2030.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#business #ai #jobcuts #finance

Reuters: Exclusive-LinkedIn planning to lay off 5% of staff in latest tech-sector cuts, source says. “The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut about 5% of its headcount ​as it reorganizes teams and focuses personnel on areas where its business is growing, said one of the people, on condition of anonymity.”

Cisco is initiating a corporate restructuring that will result in layoffs of almost 4,000 of its employees.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news-network/2026/cisco-to-cut-nearly-4-000-jobs-in-restructuring-push-around-ai-security?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=May_Cisco

#layoffs #cisco #jobcuts #technews #ai #quantum

CSIRO to persist with cutting up to 350 jobs despite extra $387.4 million in federal funding

Australia’s national science agency CSIRO will persist with job cuts of up to 350 roles despite an extra…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #BethVincent-Pietsch #csiro #DougHilton #fundingboost #injection #jobcuts #localnews #localstories #nationalscienceagency #Science #TimAyres
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/635059/

The Register: AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn’t cut it, firms warned. “New research from Gartner lays out the problem in stark terms. The analyst firm surveyed 350 global businesses – all with annual revenues above $1 billion, all piloting or deploying intelligent automation – and found that around 80 percent had cut staff as a result. The returns? Elusive. Companies that reduced […]

Ah, yes, "Building for the Future"—a future where fewer employees is apparently the key to success. 🙃 Nothing says #transparency like a corporate buzzword salad followed by a swift axe of 1,100 jobs. 🍕🔪 Keep up the good work, Cloudflare; your dedication to public relations gymnastics is truly Olympic-level. 🥇
https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/ #BuildingForTheFuture #CorporateBuzzwords #JobCuts #Cloudflare #PublicRelations #HackerNews #ngated

The University Malaise

The UK University sector is currently struggling very badly. The latest piece of news I have seen is from the University of Nottingham, where it seems the Management is planning to cut over 600 jobs. New appointments are being frozen and a voluntary severance scheme launched, but it may well come to compulsory redundancies given the scale of the proposal. I feel sorry for anyone there caught up in this because the mood must be very gloomy right now. None of this is the fault of the academics or support staff on whose positions the axe will fall.

The financial predicament of the University of Nottingham is largely the result of a reckless management decision to acquire a new campus called the Castle Meadow complex.

I worked in Nottingham from 1999 to 2007. At that time the Castle Meadow campus (left) was owned by HM Revenue & Customs. It’s next to the canal and not far from the Railway Station, but not very close to the main campus. I remember passing it many times on the train going in and out of Nottingham.

The University of Nottingham bought the campus from HMRC in 2021 for £37.5 million and spend over £45 million redeveloping it, with the idea of siting the Business School there (among other things), but there was no demand for it and in 2025, the university announced plans to sell the campus at a considerable loss.

Now you would think that the people responsible for this fiasco would be held to account and pay at least some of the price for their incompetence. But no. The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Prof. Shearer West, with whom the responsbility for the Castle Meadow campus disaster, left her post in 2024 to take up the position of Vice-Chancelor at the University of Leeds on a salary of more than £330K, leaving others to clean up the mess. I’m sure the staff and students at Leeds are waiting nervously to see what plans she has in store for their ruination. No doubt she received a glowing reference from Nottingham.

Anyone who thinks that positions with high salaries are always held by highly skilled people need only look at the Higher Education sector for definitive counter-examples.

The pattern of incompetent “leaders” switching jobs before the impact of their incompetence is revealed is a well-established one, but it’s not only the fault of the people at the very top. The entire system of governance is rotten, and not only in the UK. universities and other higher-education institutions have forgotten that the exist above all for education and research. Nowadays they have been captured by a self-serving management class that has lost sight of this and instead acts as if the only purpose is the generation of revenue, not to be spent on teaching and research but on vanity projects (like the Castle Meadow campus) and employing even more managers. Even if they were not being steered unerringly onto the rocks, universities would in any case be in danger of sinking because they are unable to support the weight of their bloated management superstructure.

I saw a post on Bluesky recently that included the following:

I asked a senior administrator what’s causing the University budget deficit.

‘Research & teaching,’ he said, ‘both lose money, not financially viable’

I said, ‘Funny, then, we weren’t losing money in the past when central administration was half the size’

That’s it in a nutshell.

I only wish this were an isolated example. It’s a systemic problem. Management bloat, expensive vanity projects requiring the diversion of funds from teaching and research, and deeply flawed strategic decisions, are symptoms of a widespread malaise. Unless there are drastic changes, the HE sector is going to shrivel and die.

The University Malaise

The UK University sector is currently struggling very badly. The latest piece of news I have seen is from the University of Nottingham, where it seems the Management is planning to cut over 600 jobs. New appointments are being frozen and a voluntary severance scheme launched, but it may well come to compulsory redundancies given the scale of the proposal. I feel sorry for anyone there caught up in this because the mood must be very gloomy right now. None of this is the fault of the academics or support staff on whose positions the axe will fall.

The financial predicament of the University of Nottingham is largely the result of a reckless management decision to acquire a new campus called the Castle Meadow complex.

I worked in Nottingham from 1999 to 2007. At that time the Castle Meadow campus (left) was owned by HM Revenue & Customs. It’s next to the canal and not far from the Railway Station, but not very close to the main campus. I remember passing it many times on the train going in and out of Nottingham.

The University of Nottingham bought the campus from HMRC in 2021 for £37.5 million and spend over £45 million redeveloping it, with the idea of siting the Business School there (among other things), but there was no demand for it and in 2025, the university announced plans to sell the campus at a considerable loss.

Now you would think that the people responsible for this fiasco would be held to account and pay at least some of the price for their incompetence. But no. The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Prof. Shearer West, with whom the responsbility for the Castle Meadow campus disaster, left her post in 2024 to take up the position of Vice-Chancelor at the University of Leeds on a salary of more than £330K, leaving others to clean up the mess. I’m sure the staff and students at Leeds are waiting nervously to see what plans she has in store for their ruination. No doubt she received a glowing reference from Nottingham.

Anyone who thinks that positions with high salaries are always held by highly skilled people need only look at the Higher Education sector for definitive counter-examples.

The pattern of incompetent “leaders” switching jobs before the impact of their incompetence is revealed is a well-established one, but it’s not only the fault of the people at the very top. The entire system of governance is rotten, and not only in the UK. universities and other higher-education institutions have forgotten that the exist above all for education and research. Nowadays they have been captured by a self-serving management class that has lost sight of this and instead acts as if the only purpose is the generation of revenue, not to be spent on teaching and research but on vanity projects (like the Castle Meadow campus) and employing even more managers. Even if they were not being steered unerringly onto the rocks, universities would in any case be in danger of sinking because they are unable to support the weight of their bloated management superstructure.

I saw a post on Bluesky recently that included the following:

I asked a senior administrator what’s causing the University budget deficit.

‘Research & teaching,’ he said, ‘both lose money, not financially viable’

I said, ‘Funny, then, we weren’t losing money in the past when central administration was half the size’

That’s it in a nutshell.

I only wish this were an isolated example. It’s a systemic problem. Management bloat, expensive vanity projects requiring the diversion of funds from teaching and research, and deeply flawed strategic decisions, are symptoms of a widespread malaise. Unless there are drastic changes, the HE sector is going to shrivel and die.

The University Malaise

The UK University sector is currently struggling very badly. The latest piece of news I have seen is from the University of Nottingham, where it seems the Management is planning to cut over 600 jobs. New appointments are being frozen and a voluntary severance scheme launched, but it may well come to compulsory redundancies given the scale of the proposal. I feel sorry for anyone there caught up in this because the mood must be very gloomy right now. None of this is the fault of the academics or support staff on whose positions the axe will fall.

The financial predicament of the University of Nottingham is largely the result of a reckless management decision to acquire a new campus called the Castle Meadow complex.

I worked in Nottingham from 1999 to 2007. At that time the Castle Meadow campus (left) was owned by HM Revenue & Customs. It’s next to the canal and not far from the Railway Station, but not very close to the main campus. I remember passing it many times on the train going in and out of Nottingham.

The University of Nottingham bought the campus from HMRC in 2021 for £37.5 million and spend over £45 million redeveloping it, with the idea of siting the Business School there (among other things), but there was no demand for it and in 2025, the university announced plans to sell the campus at a considerable loss.

Now you would think that the people responsible for this fiasco would be held to account and pay at least some of the price for their incompetence. But no. The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Prof. Shearer West, with whom the responsbility for the Castle Meadow campus disaster, left her post in 2024 to take up the position of Vice-Chancelor at the University of Leeds on a salary of more than £330K, leaving others to clean up the mess. I’m sure the staff and students at Leeds are waiting nervously to see what plans she has in store for their ruination. No doubt she received a glowing reference from Nottingham.

Anyone who thinks that positions with high salaries are always held by highly skilled people need only look at the Higher Education sector for definitive counter-examples.

The pattern of incompetent “leaders” switching jobs before the impact of their incompetence is revealed is a well-established one, but it’s not only the fault of the people at the very top. The entire system of governance is rotten, and not only in the UK. universities and other higher-education institutions have forgotten that the exist above all for education and research. Nowadays they have been captured by a self-serving management class that has lost sight of this and instead acts as if the only purpose is the generation of revenue, not to be spent on teaching and research but on vanity projects (like the Castle Meadow campus) and employing even more managers. Even if they were not being steered unerringly onto the rocks, universities would in any case be in danger of sinking because they are unable to support the weight of their bloated management superstructure.

I saw a post on Bluesky recently that included the following:

I asked a senior administrator what’s causing the University budget deficit.

‘Research & teaching,’ he said, ‘both lose money, not financially viable’

I said, ‘Funny, then, we weren’t losing money in the past when central administration was half the size’

That’s it in a nutshell.

I only wish this were an isolated example. It’s a systemic problem. Management bloat, expensive vanity projects requiring the diversion of funds from teaching and research, and deeply flawed strategic decisions, are symptoms of a widespread malaise. Unless there are drastic changes, the HE sector is going to shrivel and die.

The University Malaise

The UK University sector is currently struggling very badly. The latest piece of news I have seen is from the University of Nottingham, where it seems the Management is planning to cut over 600 jobs. New appointments are being frozen and a voluntary severance scheme launched, but it may well come to compulsory redundancies given the scale of the proposal. I feel sorry for anyone there caught up in this because the mood must be very gloomy right now. None of this is the fault of the academics or support staff on whose positions the axe will fall.

The financial predicament of the University of Nottingham is largely the result of a reckless management decision to acquire a new campus called the Castle Meadow complex.

I worked in Nottingham from 1999 to 2007. At that time the Castle Meadow campus (left) was owned by HM Revenue & Customs. It’s next to the canal and not far from the Railway Station, but not very close to the main campus. I remember passing it many times on the train going in and out of Nottingham.

The University of Nottingham bought the campus from HMRC in 2021 for £37.5 million and spend over £45 million redeveloping it, with the idea of siting the Business School there (among other things), but there was no demand for it and in 2025, the university announced plans to sell the campus at a considerable loss.

Now you would think that the people responsible for this fiasco would be held to account and pay at least some of the price for their incompetence. But no. The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Prof. Shearer West, with whom the responsbility for the Castle Meadow campus disaster, left her post in 2024 to take up the position of Vice-Chancelor at the University of Leeds on a salary of more than £330K, leaving others to clean up the mess. I’m sure the staff and students at Leeds are waiting nervously to see what plans she has in store for their ruination. No doubt she received a glowing reference from Nottingham.

Anyone who thinks that positions with high salaries are always held by highly skilled people need only look at the Higher Education sector for definitive counter-examples.

The pattern of incompetent “leaders” switching jobs before the impact of their incompetence is revealed is a well-established one, but it’s not only the fault of the people at the very top. The entire system of governance is rotten, and not only in the UK. universities and other higher-education institutions have forgotten that the exist above all for education and research. Nowadays they have been captured by a self-serving management class that has lost sight of this and instead acts as if the only purpose is the generation of revenue, not to be spent on teaching and research but on vanity projects (like the Castle Meadow campus) and employing even more managers. Even if they were not being steered unerringly onto the rocks, universities would in any case be in danger of sinking because they are unable to support the weight of their bloated management superstructure.

I saw a post on Bluesky recently that included the following:

I asked a senior administrator what’s causing the University budget deficit.

‘Research & teaching,’ he said, ‘both lose money, not financially viable’

I said, ‘Funny, then, we weren’t losing money in the past when central administration was half the size’

That’s it in a nutshell.

I only wish this were an isolated example. It’s a systemic problem. Management bloat, expensive vanity projects requiring the diversion of funds from teaching and research, and deeply flawed strategic decisions, are symptoms of a widespread malaise. Unless there are drastic changes, the HE sector is going to shrivel and die.

The University Malaise

The UK University sector is currently struggling very badly. The latest piece of news I have seen is from the University of Nottingham, where it seems the Management is planning to cut over 600 jobs. New appointments are being frozen and a voluntary severance scheme launched, but it may well come to compulsory redundancies given the scale of the proposal. I feel sorry for anyone there caught up in this because the mood must be very gloomy right now. None of this is the fault of the academics or support staff on whose positions the axe will fall.

The financial predicament of the University of Nottingham is largely the result of a reckless management decision to acquire a new campus called the Castle Meadow complex.

I worked in Nottingham from 1999 to 2007. At that time the Castle Meadow campus (left) was owned by HM Revenue & Customs. It’s next to the canal and not far from the Railway Station, but not very close to the main campus. I remember passing it many times on the train going in and out of Nottingham.

The University of Nottingham bought the campus from HMRC in 2021 for £37.5 million and spend over £45 million redeveloping it, with the idea of siting the Business School there (among other things), but there was no demand for it and in 2025, the university announced plans to sell the campus at a considerable loss.

Now you would think that the people responsible for this fiasco would be held to account and pay at least some of the price for their incompetence. But no. The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Prof. Shearer West, with whom the responsbility for the Castle Meadow campus disaster, left her post in 2024 to take up the position of Vice-Chancelor at the University of Leeds on a salary of more than £330K, leaving others to clean up the mess. I’m sure the staff and students at Leeds are waiting nervously to see what plans she has in store for their ruination. No doubt she received a glowing reference from Nottingham.

Anyone who thinks that positions with high salaries are always held by highly skilled people need only look at the Higher Education sector for definitive counter-examples.

The pattern of incompetent “leaders” switching jobs before the impact of their incompetence is revealed is a well-established one, but it’s not only the fault of the people at the very top. The entire system of governance is rotten, and not only in the UK. universities and other higher-education institutions have forgotten that the exist above all for education and research. Nowadays they have been captured by a self-serving management class that has lost sight of this and instead acts as if the only purpose is the generation of revenue, not to be spent on teaching and research but on vanity projects (like the Castle Meadow campus) and employing even more managers. Even if they were not being steered unerringly onto the rocks, universities would in any case be in danger of sinking because they are unable to support the weight of their bloated management superstructure.

I saw a post on Bluesky recently that included the following:

I asked a senior administrator what’s causing the University budget deficit.

‘Research & teaching,’ he said, ‘both lose money, not financially viable’

I said, ‘Funny, then, we weren’t losing money in the past when central administration was half the size’

That’s it in a nutshell.

I only wish this were an isolated example. It’s a systemic problem. Management bloat, expensive vanity projects requiring the diversion of funds from teaching and research, and deeply flawed strategic decisions, are symptoms of a widespread malaise. Unless there are drastic changes, the HE sector is going to shrivel and die.

#Oracle is planning significant #jobcuts due to a cash crunch from its #AIdatacentre expansion. The layoffs, impacting divisions across the company, may be implemented as soon as this month and could be wider-reaching than usual. https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/oracle-plans-thousands-of-job-cuts-as-data-center-costs-rise-bloomberg/articleshow/129125813.cms?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Apple potwierdza zwolnienia w zespole sprzedaży

Apple oficjalnie przyznało, że w ostatnim czasie doszło do redukcji etatów w dziale sprzedaży.

Choć cięcia kadrowe są powszechne w branży technologicznej, Apple zwykle traktuje je jako ostateczność.

Firma podała, że pracownicy objęci zwolnieniami mogą aplikować na nowe stanowiska w firmie. Według Apple zmiany mają na celu lepsze dotarcie do klientów, choć niektórzy zwolnieni pracownicy uważają, że część strategii sprzedaży jest obecnie outsourcowana do zewnętrznych partnerów.

Mark Gurman po raz pierwszy przekazał tę wiadomość, w tym oświadczenie Apple, dla Bloomberga. Apple powiedział Bloombergowi, że zaprasza pracowników, którzy zostali zwolnieni, do ubiegania się o nowe stanowiska w firmie.

„Aby połączyć się z jeszcze większą liczbą klientów, wprowadzamy pewne zmiany w naszym zespole sprzedaży, które mają wpływ na niewielką liczbę ról” – powiedział w oświadczeniu rzecznik firmy z Cupertino w Kalifornii. „Nadal zatrudniamy, a ci pracownicy mogą ubiegać się o nowe role”.

Choć redukcje rzadko zdarzają się w Apple, w ubiegłym roku firma zwolniła setki osób, głównie po anulowaniu projektu samochodu i w dziale usług.

#aktualnosciApple #apple #applePark #branzaTechnologiczna #cieciaEtatow #dzialSprzedazyApple #jobCuts #markGurman #outsourcingSprzedazy #servicesApple #technologia #zwolnieniaApple

Apple potwierdza zwolnienia w zespole sprzedaży

Apple oficjalnie przyznało, że w ostatnim czasie doszło do redukcji etatów w dziale sprzedaży.

Choć cięcia kadrowe są powszechne w branży technologicznej, Apple zwykle traktuje je jako ostateczność.

Firma podała, że pracownicy objęci zwolnieniami mogą aplikować na nowe stanowiska w firmie. Według Apple zmiany mają na celu lepsze dotarcie do klientów, choć niektórzy zwolnieni pracownicy uważają, że część strategii sprzedaży jest obecnie outsourcowana do zewnętrznych partnerów.

Mark Gurman po raz pierwszy przekazał tę wiadomość, w tym oświadczenie Apple, dla Bloomberga. Apple powiedział Bloombergowi, że zaprasza pracowników, którzy zostali zwolnieni, do ubiegania się o nowe stanowiska w firmie.

„Aby połączyć się z jeszcze większą liczbą klientów, wprowadzamy pewne zmiany w naszym zespole sprzedaży, które mają wpływ na niewielką liczbę ról” – powiedział w oświadczeniu rzecznik firmy z Cupertino w Kalifornii. „Nadal zatrudniamy, a ci pracownicy mogą ubiegać się o nowe role”.

Choć redukcje rzadko zdarzają się w Apple, w ubiegłym roku firma zwolniła setki osób, głównie po anulowaniu projektu samochodu i w dziale usług.

#aktualnosciApple #apple #applePark #branzaTechnologiczna #cieciaEtatow #dzialSprzedazyApple #jobCuts #markGurman #outsourcingSprzedazy #servicesApple #technologia #zwolnieniaApple

Apple potwierdza zwolnienia w zespole sprzedaży

Apple oficjalnie przyznało, że w ostatnim czasie doszło do redukcji etatów w dziale sprzedaży.

Choć cięcia kadrowe są powszechne w branży technologicznej, Apple zwykle traktuje je jako ostateczność.

Firma podała, że pracownicy objęci zwolnieniami mogą aplikować na nowe stanowiska w firmie. Według Apple zmiany mają na celu lepsze dotarcie do klientów, choć niektórzy zwolnieni pracownicy uważają, że część strategii sprzedaży jest obecnie outsourcowana do zewnętrznych partnerów.

Mark Gurman po raz pierwszy przekazał tę wiadomość, w tym oświadczenie Apple, dla Bloomberga. Apple powiedział Bloombergowi, że zaprasza pracowników, którzy zostali zwolnieni, do ubiegania się o nowe stanowiska w firmie.

„Aby połączyć się z jeszcze większą liczbą klientów, wprowadzamy pewne zmiany w naszym zespole sprzedaży, które mają wpływ na niewielką liczbę ról” – powiedział w oświadczeniu rzecznik firmy z Cupertino w Kalifornii. „Nadal zatrudniamy, a ci pracownicy mogą ubiegać się o nowe role”.

Choć redukcje rzadko zdarzają się w Apple, w ubiegłym roku firma zwolniła setki osób, głównie po anulowaniu projektu samochodu i w dziale usług.

#aktualnosciApple #apple #applePark #branzaTechnologiczna #cieciaEtatow #dzialSprzedazyApple #jobCuts #markGurman #outsourcingSprzedazy #servicesApple #technologia #zwolnieniaApple

Houston ISD has terminated or reassigned nearly 450 employees amid ongoing enrollment declines.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/09/30/532276/houston-isd-terminates-or-reassigns-nearly-450-employees-as-enrollment-decline-continues/

#Education #EducationNews #HISD #Houston #Local #News #HISDSuperintendentMikeMiles #HISDTeacherCuts #HoustonFederationOfTeachers #HoustonISDEnrollment #HoustonISDTeachers #JobCuts