Oprah Winfrey, 72, said she made a career decision she knew was wrong, simply because she didn’t want to disappoint others. Speaking on Thursday’s episode of “The Mel Robbins Podcast,” Winfrey reflected on the difficult early years of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Winfrey launched OWN in January 2011, months before “The Oprah Winfrey Show” ended
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Henry Chen, a former Meta tech lead who was laid off in May. He’s 38 and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The following has been edited for length and clarity. After I left college, I worked as a DJ for a few years, taught
TikTok is laying off 250 employees and closing its Nashville office, which housed some members of TikTok’s content-moderation team. The news was first reported by The New York Times. Zanna Crowley, a spokesperson for the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, confirmed the news, saying that the shuttering was to “streamline our operations and better align our
Patreon, a platform for creators that pays for their content, is laying off staff. In a publicly shared note addressed to Patreon content creators, CEO Jack Conte announced that the creator economy startup is laying off 93 employees, roughly 20% of its workforce. Conte said in the memo to employees that “the market in which
Chipmaker Intel said it is planning layoffs within its data center group amid a broader effort to become a “more focused and efficient” company. “As part of our broader strategy to become a more focused and efficient company, Intel’s Data Center Group (DCG) is aligning its organization to ensure it has the right roles and
Dozens of Google employees from across the country gathered in the shadow of the company’s Mountain View headquarters on Thursday, holding signs that read “Googlers for job security” and demanding greater protections against layoffs. By noon, nearly 100 workers filled a grassy stretch of campus, flanked by the Googleplex on one side and the broad
