Microsoft and Amazon Downsize Staff
Bloomberg Tech
Bloomberg
4.4 • 70 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down the latest tech layoffs out of Microsoft and Amazon. Plus, Texas universities ban access to TikTok from their WiFi networks, and Twitter auctions some of its office items.
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| 0:00.0 | Join Stacey Abrams, Leib Shriver, Gina McCarthy, and more of the planet's environmental |
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| 0:12.8 | Title sponsor Amazon, Official Airline, Alaska Airlines. |
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| 0:26.0 | at Bloomberg Live world headquarters in New York. |
| 0:45.6 | And I'm Ed Ludlow in San Francisco. |
| 0:47.6 | This is Bloomberg Technology. |
| 0:49.6 | Coming up, tens of thousands more tech employees are out of a job after Microsoft and Amazon |
| 0:54.4 | start to downsize today as employers reduce head count is the pandemic's |
| 0:58.3 | moment of worker empowerment over. |
| 1:00.3 | And universities in Texas are taking action against Tik-Tok, with Texas A&M and Texas University |
| 1:07.9 | reportedly blocking the app from its Wi-Fi networks as part of the governor's |
| 1:12.1 | orders. |
| 1:12.8 | Could this be the start of a greater trend? |
| 1:16.1 | And do you want one of Twitter's offices' neon signs? |
| 1:19.4 | Or a whiteboard or a giant refrigerator? |
| 1:21.8 | Twitter has resorted to auctioning office items. |
| 1:24.4 | We'll show you what was up for grabs. |
| 1:26.6 | But first, we want to talk about one of the key issues that layoff sometimes brings, |
| 1:31.1 | certainly for, well, plenty of chief technology and chief |
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