Microsoft is preparing to further reduce its US headcount through its first-ever voluntary buyout program, according to reports from CNBC. The initiative targets veteran employees at the senior director level and below whose combined age and years of service total 70 or higher. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: Is the AI bubble…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters Tuesday that federal prosecutors are investigating potential violations of national security following a car accident in the northern Chihuahua state that killed two Mexican officers and two U.S. government agents. The two Americans killed in the crash were employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, multiple people familiar with the matter…
President Donald Trump on Friday directed the Department of Homeland Security to pay all of its employees amid a record-long shutdown at DHS that’s lasted nearly 50 days. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The presidential memo authorizes paychecks for more than 35,000 employees at places…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2026. Chris J. Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Over 1,400 Salesforce employees have signed a letter calling on CEO Marc Benioff to drop potential business with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, two people…
A local Mexican restaurant chain in Pennsylvania is trying to forge ahead a week after a worksite immigration raid left property damage at two of its storefronts and a workforce afraid to show up to their jobs, according to two employees and a witness who spoke with NBC News. It all started Aug. 7 when immigration…
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google executives are pushing employees to act with more urgency in their use of artificial intelligence as the company looks for ways to cut costs. That was the message…
Turkish police detained three more employees of a satirical magazine on Tuesday, raising the number of people taken into custody over a cartoon that allegedly depicted the Prophet Muhammad to four. The cartoon, published in LeMan magazine, drew a string of condemnation from government officials who stated it represented the Prophet Muhammad and sparked an…
Customers order at a Starbucks in Manhattan Beach, California, on July 19, 2024. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images As Starbucks aims to bring back customers and assuage investors with its turnaround strategy, it is also winning over its store managers with promises to add more seating inside cafes and promote internally. Since CEO…
