A Tough Week for Tech Workers, and It Won’t Be the Last
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No worker seems safe this week.
Amazon.com Inc. has decided that machines are better at figuring out what to sell than humans are. Microsoft Corp. wants to replace cashiers with sensors. Tesla Inc. is firing 9 percent of its workforce (Some of them seem to have Stockholm syndrome.) Qualcomm Inc. is cutting about 280 jobs. Broadcom Inc., another chipmaker, said on Thursday that it cut 1,100 jobs as a result of an acquisition.