Author: David Reyes

On a weekday afternoon, the parking lot at Blackbaud’s Daniel Island campus reveals information that the press releases do not. It’s not as loud as it once was. There are fewer cars, fewer people getting coffee at the local cafés, and fewer of those little lunchtime crowds that used to spill out into the Charleston sun. Of course, the business hasn’t disappeared. Walking around, however, gives the impression that something has changed, and not in a way that most workers seem to be happy about. Blackbaud’s 2026 layoffs have developed in a slow, deliberate manner that makes them more difficult…

Nothing really reveals the Medtronic campus in Northridge when you stroll by it on a weekday morning. The cafeteria continues to hum with the same low chatter as it did a year ago, the parking lot continues to fill up, and the badges continue to beep at the turnstiles. However, those within are aware of what is about to happen and have been since the beginning of February. By April 7, eighty-one of them will be gone, and the others are silently attempting to determine if they will be the next. It is a small number in and of itself.…

In Eden Prairie, the morning of May 6th seemed like any other. Around 250 people at Arctic Wolf were packing up by late afternoon after the calendar invitations were sent out. The business referred to it as a restructuring. Scrolling through LinkedIn in the hours that followed, the majority of those who were let go described it as something more sudden. These announcements now have a rhythm. When a spokesperson uses phrases like “long-term strategy” and “operate more efficiently,” we are left to interpret their words. The cuts, according to Arctic Wolf, a privately held cybersecurity company best known for…

The Reddit threads were already packed by Wednesday morning after the calendar invites were sent out late on a Tuesday afternoon. They stated, “Business Update,” but they did not include an agenda. Anyone who has spent more than a year inside a Big Four or mid-tier firm knows what that two-word phrase usually means, and at RSM US this past May, it meant exactly what people feared. Hundreds of employees were informed that their jobs were being eliminated; many of them were auditors who had only begun work the summer or fall before. The fact that the company hasn’t released…

Watching a business shrink in slow motion has a subtly depressing quality. For the better part of two years, OpenText, the Waterloo-based software company that used to feel like the reliable older sibling of Canadian tech, has been paving the way for whatever comes next. About 880 people participated in the most recent round, which took place in March. Four percent of the labor force. A figure big enough to completely transform entire teams in a single night, but small enough for a press release to absorb without any effort. After leaving, one employee posted on social media that it…

The timing of it was almost too exact. On a Thursday in early May, Upwork—a company founded solely on the notion that work could be divided into more manageable chunks and transported across borders via Wi-Fi—announced it was laying off about 25% of its own employees. 145 or so individuals. Before the majority of East Coast residents had finished their dinner, the stock fell 19%. The wording made it hit harder than the typical tech layoff news. The founder of Upwork since 2020, Hayden Brown, did not follow the conventional wisdom regarding “rightsizing” or “evolving priorities.” “The two-pizza team is…

Even by the punch-drunk standards of tech in 2026, there was something different about the DeepL layoff announcement. It wasn’t the quantity, but 250 job losses are by no means insignificant. It was the mood. The memo from Jarek Kutylowski didn’t sound like crisis management. It had a thesis-like tone. smaller groups. fewer levels of management. AI is integrated into everything. Almost on schedule, “Founder mode” is back. Reading it twice gives me the impression that he was auditioning a new model for the rest of the industry to follow rather than responding to the market. For many years, DeepL…

After the email arrived on Wednesday morning, LinkedIn’s own feed began the odd task of promoting its own layoffs by lunchtime. Workers, many of whom were located in Bellevue and Seattle, began posting the kind of well-crafted notices that have become commonplace in the tech industry—those in which employees thank their managers, mention their dog, and subtly affix a “open to work” banner. Being fired from the platform designed to withstand layoffs seems a little ridiculous. The company did not present the layoffs, which accounted for about 5% of LinkedIn’s 17,500 employees, as an AI story. Automation was not the…

Fidelity’s most recent update is exactly the type of corporate announcement that comes in soft language, almost apologetic in its wording. The financial behemoth with headquarters in Boston claims to be hiring thousands of new employees while firing about 800. The math appears to be growing on paper. It sounds completely different in conversation in the cafes around 245 Summer Street. The official position is that this is not a retreat but rather a restructuring. About 25,000 positions are being moved into what Fidelity calls a new operating model as it rebuilds its product and technology teams. With a clear…

When bad news arrives on campus, a certain silence descends, and the NSCC’s central office in Halifax has been experiencing it for a week. In a letter to the college community on May 6, acting president Anna Burke stated quite bluntly that 91 positions were being eliminated overall and that 45 people had lost their jobs. The cause was a $15 million hole that could no longer be covered. Even though the politics surrounding it are complex, the math itself is not. A decrease in the province’s operating grant accounted for about $9.4 million of the shortfall; the remaining $5.5…