Meta cutting 5% of workforce through performance-based attrition
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently appeared on Joe Rogans' podcast, and the two discussed the company's culture shift in a wide-ranging interview. Facebook's parent company, Meta, announced Tuesday that it plans to cut its workforce, focusing on its worst-performing employees, according to an internal memo to Meta's employees. “We have decided to raise the bar […]
Washington Post lays off 4% of workforce as turmoil engulfs paper
The Washington Post announced Tuesday that it will lay off about 4% of its employees. It's the latest blow to the paper, which has seen huge financial losses as well as an exodus of top talent from a newsroom increasingly estranged from owner Jeff. Bezos and publisher Will Lewis. The paper said the job cuts […]
Outgoing WH official calls for US to bolster cybersecurity workforce by hiring non-degree holders
Outgoing White House cyber czar Harry Corker has announced three key priorities to address the growing threat of digital attacks: more funding, less regulation and opening up cyber jobs to people without college degrees. I asked for something. With adversaries such as Iran, China and Russia mounting near-constant attacks on America's digital infrastructure, President Joe […]
Tesla More than Doubles H-1B Visa Workforce Imported to U.S.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is using the highly controversial H-1B visa to import foreign workers (mainly from India) to take white-collar jobs in the United States. New data reveals a growing vested interest in the federal government continuing the program. Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump and other have been speaking out against the H-1B visa […]
H-1B Uproar Obscures Vast Workforce of Other White-Collar Migrants
The heated debate over H-1B visa workers masks the much larger influx of other foreign workers into white-collar jobs needed by American college graduates. The federal government issues approximately 130,000 new H-1B visas each year and an additional 650,000 visas or work permits to other white-collar immigrants each year. Many of these nonimmigrant workers are […]
Virginia Democrats ‘asking the wrong question’ amid outrage over DOGE federal workforce cuts, GOP leader says
A top Democrat in the Virginia House of Representatives has sounded the alarm over President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plan to tell some federal employees, “You're fired,” on the grounds of efficiency. The state's top Senate Republican countered Thursday that the majority party is “asking the wrong questions.” Earlier this week, House […]
Native-born US workforce totals dipped — as immigrant labor figures rose: report
America's workforce is becoming less American. Newly released data Researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies show that fewer native-born Americans are participating in the labor force, and that the largest decline in recent decades has been among men. are sounding the alarm over the decline in the workforce. “The percentage of U.S.-born men of […]
43M Americans Out of Workforce, Migrants Take All Net Job Growth
Foreign-born workers accounted for all of last year's net employment growth, leaving tens of millions of U.S.-born Americans out of the labor market, a new analysis details. . of analysis The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) study tracks the decline in labor force participation among native-born Americans from 1960 to 2024. This is an alarming […]
Dem Plan Is Amnesty for 13M Illegals to Flood Workforce
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) said Democrats want to grant amnesty to about 13 million illegal aliens and flood the U.S. workforce with low-wage foreign workers. , said working and middle-class Americans must compete for jobs. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week, Hawley lambasted Democratic witnesses for taking a pro-amnesty stance even though a […]
Elon Musk hints at how the DOGE will dismantle massive federal workforce
Tech billionaire Elon Musk reacted to a report showing how many federal employees are actually reporting to work and hinted at actions DOGE may take to reduce the federal budget. . report Found About one-third of federal employees work remotely full-time, while only about 6% of federal employees work in-person on a “full-time basis.” It […]