Keirsten Greggs
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Keirsten Greggs
@TrapRecruiter
Talent Acquisition Consultant & Strategist | Recruiter Enablement | Podcast Host | #RecruiterProblems |🔺🐘
Katılım Mayıs 2017
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Christie Engler didn't sugarcoat it.
If leadership isn't behind you, if HR is just a checkbox, if your CFO is talking sideways about you to other leaders; that's not a culture problem you can fix.
That's your sign to go.
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Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, the first Black woman U.S. Surgeon General, never separated health from economic justice.
"Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy."
Workforce equity IS a health outcome.
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Intuit, parent company of TurboTax, is laying off 17% of their staff. That's 3,000 people.
This comes at the same time as the company announces a third quarter revenue of $8.6 billion, up 10%.
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Month 6 with NO INCOME and somehow my goofy ass still gets on this innerweb everyday to post content. (Only a few if you see it, but still…work is completed 😤)
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@TrapRecruiter Great reporting and a very thorough assessment, Keirsten.
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I've been watching the Meta layoff story since March. Today I wrote the full analysis.
10% cut. 7,000 forced transfers.
6,000 reqs closed quietly.
Employees whose keystrokes were being used to train their replacements.
Full article 🔗
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NPR is offering buyouts to 300 newsroom staff, but only expects to take 30.
If not enough people volunteer by May 26? Layoffs.
David D. Tawil@DavidDTawil
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JUST IN: US House passes bill to block large institutional investors from buying up single family homes.
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NEW DETAILS ON THE META LAYOFFS FROM INSIDE THE BUILDING
At least one employee who was hired within the past month was laid off today.
Over 1,000 employees signed a petition against Meta's new program that tracks keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots to train AI models. Protest flyers were posted on office walls and taped to windows at the Burlingame office. The flyers featured a cartoon "Employee Data Extraction Factory" with cats in orange hard hats.
Meta went ahead with the layoffs anyway.
A new team led by VP of Engineering Maher Saba called "Applied AI and Engineering" is being built using the data collected from that employee tracking program. Roughly 2,000 employees have been moved onto the team so far. Those who joined were told they would be safe from layoffs.
An email to managers described it as "a high priority initiative, directly from Mark." Participation was not optional.
Software engineer Mack Ward wrote an internal post liked by over 2,000 employees: "AI is a freight train, but the future is not a foregone conclusion. Speaking up is never easy, but 'easy' isn't what you were hired to do."
CTO Andrew Bosworth addressed concerns in a Q&A last week. His response: "It's all bad. I'm not going to try to sugarcoat that."
Director-level employees were offered roughly $500,000 in additional equity to stay. Some refused and left anyway.
In New York, employees gathered Tuesday night. The invite read: "Commiserate or celebrate, pick your poison." The title of the event: "Never a dull moment."
Notifications went out starting at 4 AM in Singapore and rolled westward. Offices were mostly empty. On Meta's internal forums, hundreds reacted with salad emojis. Their way of saying salute.
Mark now says no more layoffs are planned for this year. We will see about that.
Official Layoff@LayoffAI
META INTERNAL MEMO FOR WEDNESDAY LAYOFFS LEAKED Reuters got Meta’s internal memo today. Here’s the actual mechanics of Wednesday: 4am local time. Three batches globally. HR head Janelle Gale sent staff the playbook. The numbers: >8,000 cut >7,000 reassigned to new AI workflow initiatives >Manager roles eliminated outright >”Many leaders will announce org changes” alongside the layoffs Gale’s framing: org leaders “incorporated AI native design principles into their new org structures.” The 7,000 moved to AI workflows are reassigned, not cut. The managers being eliminated are layers the new org charts don’t include. The 8,000 walking out at 4am are the roles that didn’t survive the redesign. Stack it against the 6,000 cancelled roles from earlier this week and the additional 8,000 cuts Meta has signaled for later in 2026. 22,000+ roles either cut or never filled this year, plus thousands shoved into AI work whether they wanted it or not. The memo confirms what the leaderboards and keystroke logging already showed. Meta is rebuilding the company around fewer people. Everyone staying is getting moved into AI roles.
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#Juneteenth is approaching so please take some time to check out my article it’s a quick read. Also subscribe to my #Substack
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Today at 3 PM Christie Engler joins TRAP Chat live to talk pivots, trust, accountability, and what proactive HR actually looks like when the stakes are personal.
Join us!
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JUST IN: Meta has begun sweeping layoffs affecting 8,000 employees, starting with workers in Singapore who reportedly received notices at 4 a.m.
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LEAKED AUDIO FROM META ALL-HANDS AHEAD OF LAYOFFS TOMORROW
Mark Zuckerberg, in his own words, told Meta employees their devices are being tracked to train AI models.
His reasoning? Meta employees are smarter than the contract workers the rest of the industry uses for data labeling. So instead of hiring outside help, Meta is turning its own workforce into training data.
"The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks if you're working through these contractors."
He wants the AI to learn how "really smart people use computers" by watching employees work. He says the content is "stripped out" and none of it is used for surveillance or performance tracking.
Then he admitted the rollout was botched but said Meta intentionally kept employees in the dark because leaking competitive AI strategy would help rivals.
"It is not strategically in your interest for us to communicate everything in all the detail that we normally would on this."
Translation: We're watching you, we told you as little as possible, and we did it on purpose.
AI is replacing the contractor. Then the employee trains the AI. Then the AI replaces the employee.
This story and this company keeps getting weirder.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
LEAKED AUDIO: In an all-hands meeting on April 30, Mark Zuckerberg tells employees that he's training AI on them ahead of mass layoffs. "The AI models learn from watching really smart people do things... The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks. So if we're trying to teach the models coding, for example, then having people internally build tools or solve tasks that help teach the model how to code, we think is going to dramatically increase our model's coding ability faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don't have thousands and thousands of extremely strong engineers at their company."
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🚨 NEW: Under Gov. Sherrill, New Jersey now has a budget surplus of nearly $6 billion.
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Some days you're at 150%. Some days you're at 20%. Both are your best.
Katrina Jones on why holding on to little bits of joy isn't soft advice — it's survival.
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