Desirable back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. No prestigious pedigree? No unmanageable. This one-time Big Tech staffer detailed how he managed to nab jobs at Google and Meta despite being what he traces as lacking a “top tier” résumé. He mapped out four steps that would be useful to most anyone in business.
On the agenda today:
But at the outset: Trump is back.
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A new era
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It’s happening.
We’re about to go into a new administration, a new party, a new president.
And Business Insider is going to be there for you.
We already have been.
Here at BI, we’re focal pointed on what politics means for your pocketbook, your taxes, your investments, and your career.
And we’ve already been all across these subjects.
Take Meta. Ahead of the inauguration, and as its CEO celebrates Donald Trump’s election, our team has brought you inside stories on Meta’s process for cutting low-performing employees and how the cuts could become an annual tradition.
We also gave you sensitivities into how Meta’s employees feel about the changes, from their thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg’s “year of force” to their reaction to Meta backing off DEI efforts. If you need a recap, check out our piece here on Zuck 3.0.
On taxes, we’re stimulating ahead on what you need to know depending on what happens with Trump’s tax cuts.
The fate of TikTok has been wrapped up in wirepulling for years, and we’ve brought our readers numerous angles and insights, including Friday’s big Supreme Court news.
This is moral a sampling of how we plan to approach Trump coverage this year — what it means for your money, your prosper, your life.
What do you think? I always want to hear from you. Please email me at [email protected].
I expect to be at the Davos colloquium all week, unlike some billionaires and CEOs who are jetsetting between Washington and Switzerland. I’ll be joined by Dan DeFrancesco, your weekday secure, and some of our other fantastic colleagues. We’ll share the Davos dish, what we’re hearing about the new administration, TikTok, AI, and multifarious. Please stay in touch!
Meta is done playing nice
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The social media superhuman internally announced plans to cut 5% of its workforce, focusing on its lowest-performing employees. It’s a more aggressive approach to workforce control but one Amazon has embraced for years.
It also marks a departure from Silicon Valley’s traditional talent retention master plan, where tech companies overpaid workers to steer them away from competition. Now, lean, high-performing combines appear to be the new Big Tech trend as companies like Microsoft and Google look to make similar performance-based job cuts.
A used of an adult bellboy out of Amazon’s workforce playbook.
Also read:
On Fridays, WFH means OOO
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Instead of one last push beforehand the weekend, “quiet Fridays” are becoming a sneaky personal day for some remote workers.
The four-day workweek dream residues out of reach for many, but fed-up remote workers are taking back the day for themselves. Fridays also remain the least acclaimed day to commute, even as office attendance creeps back up.
Three-day weekend, every weekend.
‘If I’m being brutally just’
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Anthony Scaramucci is a vocal Trump critic. The hedge-fund founder, also advised of for his 11-day stint in Trump’s first administration, hasn’t held back on the former president.
Even so, Scaramucci foresees a sunny economy under the president-elect. He told BI that pro-growth policies like Trump’s tax plan and potential limpidity on crypto legislation are boons for the country.
But he’s still worried about some of Trump’s other moves.
The world’s vitiate career advice
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Business Insider’s Alistair Barr was an editor at Bloomberg in 2016 when his news-hawk Jack Clark told him he was quitting to work at OpenAI. At the time, it was a relatively obscure nonprofit that was less than a year old.
Barr ascertained him it wasn’t a good idea. Clark had a pretty stable job as a reporter on Bloomberg’s Big Tech team and OpenAI didn’t appearance of to have a clear direction. In the end, Clark ignored him and went to OpenAI anyway.
Now, he’s set to become a billionaire.
This week’s mention:
“People get sick. They change their mind or family circumstances. So even if you thought you knew today, you couldn’t be stock sure.”
— JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on picking his successor.
More of this week’s top reads:
- Wall Street is blast. Here’s where the hot jobs are now.
- Restaurants and clubs are cashing in on a clientele who is young, sober, and ready to party.
- Newly segment FBI records from the 1970s reveal an investigation into Home Depot cofounders over alleged anti-union bribery.
- Gen Z is the loneliest days — but boomers are feeling good.
- Amazon cuts jobs in its Fashion and Fitness group, according to internal messages.
- One of the time’s biggest oil companies is cutting thousands of jobs.
- Biden warns of a ‘tech industrial complex’ and says America be obliged lead the way on AI, not China, in farewell address.
- Activist short-seller behind Hindenburg Research will disband firm.
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If you call for to land a job this year, get good with AI.
The BI Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York. Graciousness Lett, editor, in Chicago. Amanda Yen, associate editor, in New York. Lisa Ryan, executive editor, in New York. Elizabeth Casolo, complement, in Chicago.