Author: Daniel Scott

The timing is especially cruel. The news that 86 support staff positions at Algoma University would be eliminated came as a shock to Sault Ste. Timmins managing its own financial concerns, Marie still reeling from the shock of more than a thousand Algoma Steel layoffs, and Brampton far enough out of the news to be mostly ignored. It didn’t go unnoticed by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. OSSTF took a strong stance, denouncing the cuts as catastrophic, stating that the situation could have been prevented, and denouncing a provincial government that it holds directly accountable for the circumstances that…

When people begin counting their coworkers, a certain silence descends upon a corporate office. Before any announcement, it takes hold through whispers and rumors in elevators. Sometime in early 2026, the silence in Rio Tinto’s St Georges Terrace offices in Perth began, and it hasn’t completely ended since. The second-biggest mining company in the world is undergoing a “fundamental” restructuring, according to Simon Trott, the company’s new CEO. The word “fundamental” was chosen on purpose. This isn’t a cautious reaction to a challenging quarter or a trimming exercise. Up to 20% of Perth’s white-collar workforce may be let go before…

This type of morning has happened before in the parking lot outside MRI Software’s Solon campus, a peaceful office building nestled into the Cleveland suburbs. Another one occurred on May 11, 2026, when workers discovered their positions had been eliminated. Some of them had been with the company for eight or more years, and some of them held senior director titles that had been significant the previous week. A number of them made their own announcements on LinkedIn, which is a contemporary custom for laid-off professionals that combines public humiliation with dignity. Crain’s Cleveland Business was informed by the company…

There’s a certain silence in the parking lot at Blackbaud’s Daniel Island campus in Charleston on a Tuesday morning. It’s not the quiet of a slow day, the kind that builds up as people gradually cease to show up. There are fewer cars than there used to be, fewer people at the local coffee shops, and fewer of those unofficial groups outside the front door that usually form when a business still feels like a place people want to be. The offices remain in place. The brand is still in existence. However, those who are still employed there appear to…

In Santa Rosa, California, a two-building campus along Unocal Place has been a feature of the local skyline for almost thirty years. Engineers, clinical researchers, and support personnel who developed careers within a company that manufactures pacemakers, heart valves, and cardiovascular stents were housed in the Fountaingrove complex, which is situated against the gentle hills of Sonoma County wine country. Medtronic informed all 370 of them in May 2026 that they would lose their jobs by spring 2028, along with the campus itself. Internally, it was referred to as a “difficult but strategic decision.” From the outside, it appeared to…

The way Arctic Wolf announced it was almost clinical. There was only a statement from a spokesperson outlining a “restructuring to better align the company’s structure and investments with our long-term strategy” rather than a dramatic memo leaked to the media or a town hall gone awry. On May 6, 2026, 250 people lost their jobs, and the official wording gave the impression that a spreadsheet had been cleaned up. As the company shifted its focus to machines, sales engineers, infrastructure experts, and marketing specialists—people who had, in some cases, spent years building the company’s reputation—were given their exits. Most…

The first sign at RSM was a calendar invitation rather than a memo. The title, “Business Update,” was ambiguous enough to refer to anything and specific enough to have a single meaning by this point. People in the company knew. Hundreds of employees had left by the time the meetings ended early last week, the majority of whom were junior employees who had completed their first or second hectic season and were still learning how to read a workpaper without flinching. The figures continue to fluctuate. Going Concern’s tipsters described a wave of dismissals concentrated in audit, and The Times…

When layoffs become a season rather than an event, a company experiences a certain kind of weariness. You can find OpenText employees discussing just that by scrolling through the threads on TheLayoff.com or reading through the discussions on Reddit’s r/waterloo. Some refer to it as “yearly spring cleaning.” Another longtime engineer claimed he was fired in eight minutes after working on the same product for seventeen years. For seventeen years, eight minutes. It’s difficult not to pause and read that. Based on OpenText’s own headcount data, BetaKit calculated that the most recent layoffs, which were confirmed in late March 2026,…

At Upwork’s Palo Alto headquarters, there is a certain kind of irony that is difficult to ignore, but no one will publicly acknowledge. A company that was founded solely on the notion that human labor is abundant, in demand, and valuable to connect across borders has recently announced that it will lay off about 25% of its own employees. On May 7, the memo was distributed. Many people who had been following the platform for years were left wondering what the new pitch was supposed to be after the stock fell by nearly 20% by the following morning. Hayden Brown,…

On a Thursday, when most people are already half-checked out and scrolling through their phones in between meetings, the memo appeared on LinkedIn. The founder of DeepL, Jarek Kutylowski, described it as the hardest choice of his professional life. A quarter of the Cologne-based company, or about 250 employees, were being let go. The post had been shared, screenshotted, analyzed, and subtly contrasted with six other posts that had appeared in the same week by Friday morning. Reading these things now gives me the impression that they are beginning to rhyme. DeepL used to be Google Translate’s courteous German counterpart.…