The layoffs keep coming.

Companies have been laying off workers across the board this year including in the federal government, tech, media and other industries as a slowing economy continues to pressure companies’ bottom lines.

This week, NBC laid off 150 workers, representing about 2 percent of its parent company’s news group workforce. Amazon is reportedly planning to lay off 15 percent of its human resources staff. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a June memo to employees that he expected to “reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI.” (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

Similarly, Salesforce cut 4,000 customer support roles as it implemented AI agents at the company, CEO Marc Benioff said in August on a podcast. Starbucks has cut 9

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