Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella onstage at Ignite 2023 in November. | Image: MicrosoftMost of the staff at OpenAI have threatened to resign from the company and join Microsoft, which has hired ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman to lead a new “advanced AI research team.” In a letter to OpenAI’s board that was repo…

Amazon says employees may not get promoted if they ignore return-to-office mandate Several months after requiring that staffers work out of physical offices at least three days a week, Amazon is making sure the rule is being followed

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Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after complaints Image: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMicrosoft was planning to remove a free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees in January, but the company is now reversing that decision following employee complaints. The Verge reported yesterday that Microsoft employees had expressed objections about the Xbox Game Pass U…

Microsoft employees aren’t happy that they’re losing free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMicrosoft is removing the free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees and some aren’t happy about it. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company started informing employees this week that in January 2024 the free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for per…

Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank Illustration: The VergeElon Musk wants X to be the center of your financial world, handling anything in your life that deals with money. He expects those features to launch by the end of 2024, he told X employees during an all hands call on Thursday, saying that people will be surprised with “just how powerful it is.” “When I say payments, I act…

In Antitrust Trial, Google Argues That Smart Employees Explain Its Success While the Justice Department says Google has squeezed partners and made expensive deals to maintain its search dominance, the company has a more genteel story to tell.

Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package Roblox CEO David Baszucki told remote employees that they’ll have to start coming to the office Tuesdays through Thursdays.

Roblox says employees must return to office because the metaverse still isn’t good enough Illustration: The VergeRoblox — a company that builds a hugely popular virtual experiences platform, recently introduced its own spin on video chat, and even created an in-Roblox career center — is “transitioning away” from remote work and will be asking “a number of our remote employees to begin working from our headquarters in San Mateo by nex…

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeOne of the worst tech labor years ever continues with the news that roughly half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off. Bandcamp employees are reporting the news via social media. about half the company was laid off today. some of the most incredible people i’ve ever worked with, including two of my a…

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 employees — read the memo here Revenue growth at Microsoft’s business social network has slowed as advertisers pull back in an uncertain economy.

LinkedIn lays off hundreds of employees for the second time this year Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesLinkedIn is laying off about 668 employees across various teams, the Microsoft-owned company announced on Monday. It’s the second time LinkedIn has announced cuts this year; it laid off 716 employees in May, saying at the time that the move was meant to “re-organize for greater agility and growth.” This ti…

Google Employees Raise Doubts About Bard via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google employees voice doubts about chatbot Bard’s capabilities despite rapid integration into products. The post Google Employees Raise Doubts About Bard appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Former BioWare employees sue for better severance packages Image: BioWareSeveral BioWare employees are suing their former employer after they alleged the company refused to grant them fair severance packages. A press release from Worobec Law Offices, the firm representing seven ex-BioWare employees, stated that the employees were entitled to one month of severance pay for each year of employment includi…

Almost All Crypto Employees Take Pay in Fiat, Pantera Study Finds The median pay globally among 570 engineers surveyed was $120,000, with those in North America getting $193,000, up 1.5% versus the prior year, based on the study.

FTX Sues Former Employees of Hong Kong Affiliate, Seeks $157 Million The bankrupt crypto exchange has sued former employees of Salameda, a Hong Kong-incorporated affiliate, to recover about $157.3 million.

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Meta employees are back in the office three days a week as part of new mandate Meta’s return-to-office mandate requires employees to work from the company’s offices at least three days a week.

Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ Illustration by Laura Normand / The VergeAmazon CEO Andy Jassy has a message to employees who don’t want to return to the office: “It’s not going to work out for you.” That’s according to a report from Insider, which says Jassy made that statement during a meeting earlier this month. While Amazon ordered its employees to return to the office for…

Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate As Amazon tries to get employees back to the office, some staffers are being told to relocate to hubs in different states if they want to keep their jobs