Companies like Oracle and Southwest Airlines now use the WARN Act's 60-day notice requirement to structure severance packages and delay mass layoff warnings, shifting costs to workers.
Nearly 73,200 U.S. workers appeared in state WARN databases in Q1 2026, and the severance formulas attached to those filings reveal how companies really value their departing workers, more than any earnings call could.
Opinion · Tech Labor
Landmark NLRB joint-employer rulings against Google and Amazon, amid the tech sector's longest sustained layoffs, are reshaping the bargaining landscape for engineers and forcing the industry to confront not whether workers organize, but what the org chart looks like when they do.
Opinion · Tech Labor
The NLRB oversaw 30 percent fewer elections in 2025, but tech workers are bypassing the ballot box altogether, turning to contract campaigns, walkouts, and a quiet redefinition of collective bargaining.
L5+ hiring was supposed to be the safe tier but has become the unplanned bottleneck, caught between AI tooling flattening the productivity curve and compensation bands that haven't reset fast enough.
Opinion · Tech Labor & Hiring
From automated résumé tailoring to real-time answer generation, AI tools like Teal and JobCopilot force engineering organizations to confront a metric breakdown: interview funnels now inflate false positives while hiding true talent.
Opinion · Tech Labor & Hiring
With 52,050 layoffs and 92.6% AI coding tool adoption among engineers, companies are flattening the senior engineering leveling diamond, thinning L5 roles while raising the bar to old L6 standards without moving compensation.
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Opinion · Labor
Three of the eight largest software-platform employers reopened L5+ engineering requisitions in March. The new postings are 30% fewer than the 2023 baseline, and the leveling rubric has changed in a way nobody is announcing.