Layoffs
Deep State Diaries
“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated”
Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.
By E. Tammy Kim
Deep State Diaries
Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog
A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.
By E. Tammy Kim
Deep State Diaries
Inside the DOGE Threat to Social Security
A day in the life of a claims rep for America’s largest government program.
By E. Tammy Kim
Deep State Diaries
“We Are Considering You as Being Terminated”
Zain Shirazi, inspired by his family’s experience of post-9/11 racism, has been fighting workplace harassment for the federal government. The Trump Administration fired him.
By E. Tammy Kim
The Financial Page
The Musk-Trump War on Federal Employees Doesn’t Add Up
DOGE operatives claim that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. Let’s do the math.
By John Cassidy
The Weekend Essay
Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press’s relationship to its audience.
By Clare Malone
Annals of Technology
What We Lost When Twitter Became X
As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places.
By Sheon Han
Shouts & Murmurs
Scaled-Back Benefits for a Silicon Valley Recession
The annual conference is moving from Maui to the Metaverse—an equally exotic locale! And we’re discontinuing fertility assistance, but that went without saying, right?
By Harris Mayersohn
Annals of Communications
What Happened to the Washington Post?
After a decade of growth, the paper is laying off staff and was reportedly on track to lose money last year. Its publisher and C.E.O. says it’s all part of a bold strategy.
By Clare Malone
Shouts & Murmurs
I’m Sorry to Announce Layoffs at Ye Olde Colonial Village
After ample reflection and prayer, I have made the painful decision to downsize our blessed hamlet.
By Dan Fitzpatrick
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Elon Musk Accidentally Includes Himself in Latest Round of Mass Layoffs
Musk attempted to tweet a call for assistance, but found that his Twitter password had been changed and his blue check removed.
By Andy Borowitz
Infinite Scroll
A Twitter Employee’s Account of Surviving Layoff Day
“I actually wanted to get laid off.”
By Kyle Chayka
Currency
The Fight to Save Jobs in the Airline Industry
The head of the flight attendants’ union is lobbying Congress to extend protections for workers who have been grounded by the coronavirus pandemic.
By Sheelah Kolhatkar
As Told To
The Reporter Who Wrote About Layoffs at the Cleveland Plain Dealer After He Was Laid Off
The veteran writer and editor Tom Feran talks about what it was like to witness the industry’s decline over nearly thirty years of working for the Cleveland paper.
By Charles Bethea