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Tech Layoffs to Top 1,000 in Bay Area by Late May, State Reports Show:
Tech and web-based companies intend to cut well over 1,000 jobs in the Bay Area between now and Memorial Day, according to new official filings with [California] state labor officials.
SAP, Oracle America, PayPal, Instacart and Thin Film Electronics are among the technology companies that have alerted the state's Employment Development Department of their intentions to reduce staffing levels.
All told, about 1,100 jobs will be lost through the employment reductions being planned by the five companies, WARN notices filed with the state EDD show.
According to the filing, SAP will eliminate 446 jobs — 179 in Palo Alto, 173 in San Ramon and 94 in South San Francisco.
Oracle intends to cut 352 positions: 255 in Redwood City and 97 in Santa Clara.
PayPal plans to reduce staffing levels by 183 jobs: 160 in San Jose and 23 in San Francisco. The South Bay job cuts are slated to occur at the e-commerce titan's offices on North First Street in San Jose.
Thin Film Electronics has issued an alert of 54 upcoming job cuts in San Jose.
Given the high cost of living in the area, let's hope none of them end up homeless.
(Score: 3, Funny) by linkdude64 on Monday April 01 2019, @01:56AM (1 child)
Holy fuck, I can see it now - mobs of modestly overweight middleaged men and women in SAP gangwear are going to brutally force innocent bystanders to demo their software and shake them down for their own corporate contacts looking for parternships so they can get their jobs back...we need a movie like The Office but a horror version!!!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday April 01 2019, @05:39PM
You say that like, "The Office" wasn't a horror version. Just much more Hitchcock and a lot less "Saw LXXVIII".
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"