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Amazon’s UK investment passes £1bn in Northamptonshire with 4,000 jobs, and a floor full of robots

Amazon is deepening its UK investment, putting more than £1bn into two sites in Northamptonshire and adding over 4,000 jobs in one of the largest single-county commitments of its £40bn UK programme. The company has opened a £500M fulfilment centre in Northampton and confirmed a second £500M facility in nearby Kettering, due to open this […]

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75% of C-suite leaders say agentic AI lives up to the hype or is underestimated. 48% still plan to cut headcount.

Three-quarters of C-suite leaders at some of the world’s largest companies say agentic AI either lives up to the hype or is being underestimated. That is according to a poll conducted by AI Infra Summit at an exclusive CEO event in April, where attendees represented firms including Amazon, Dell Technologies, FedEx, Hitachi, Lenovo, MasterCard, Mercedes-Benz, […]

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9 best HRIS systems for large organizations (2026)

Enterprise HRIS buying guides tend to recommend the same five names. That shortlist hasn’t changed in a decade, and most of those platforms were built for a workforce model that no longer exists. Remote-first teams, distributed payroll across multiple countries, AI-driven workforce planning, and employee experience expectations from a generation raised on consumer apps have all reshaped […]

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7 best HRIS for growing companies: 2026 overview

Most HRIS platforms sell you a vision of growth. Then they become the ceiling. The system that handled onboarding for your first 50 hires starts breaking at 200. Reports that worked fine for one office can’t accommodate three countries. The performance review module you never used at 30 employees now sits there, mocking you, because […]

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Microsoft dropped the one survey question its employees actually cared about

For years, one question in Microsoft’s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a “good deal at Microsoft,” defined as “a reasonable balance between what I contribute to Microsoft and what I get in return.” When the scores dropped low enough, the company responded with significant […]

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Uber cuts nearly a quarter of its HR division as new president reshapes the company from the inside

Three weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating 23% of positions in its People and Places division, the unit responsible for human resources, recruitment, workplace facilities, and culture. The cuts, many targeting senior roles, represent less than […]

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OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform, and non-developers are adopting it 3x faster than engineers

OpenAI announced a major expansion of Codex on Tuesday, transforming its AI coding agent into a broader enterprise work platform with three new capabilities: Sites, a feature that lets users create and share hosted interactive web applications; Annotations, an in-place editing tool; and six role-specific plugins that aggregate 62 popular business applications including Snowflake, Figma, […]

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Wix is cutting 20% of its workforce as a strong shekel and AI competition squeeze the website builder from both sides

Wix is laying off approximately 1,000 employees, roughly 20% of its workforce, in the largest round of cuts in the company’s history. CEO and co-founder Avishai Abrahami announced the decision on 28 May in a message posted publicly on X and sent simultaneously to all staff. He framed the restructuring as a company-wide change driven by two […]

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Zendesk hires serial enterprise CMO Tifenn Dano Kwan as it bets everything on AI agents

Zendesk has appointed Tifenn Dano Kwan as its new chief marketing officer, bringing in a veteran enterprise SaaS marketer as the company accelerates its pivot toward AI-powered customer service. Dano Kwan replaces Kelly Waldher, who joined the company from Google in 2023. The appointment comes at a defining moment for Zendesk. The company has spent […]

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ClickUp cuts 22 per cent of staff and introduces $1 million salary bands for those who remain

ClickUp, the $4 billion productivity platform, has cut 22 per cent of its workforce. CEO Zeb Evans announced the layoffs in a post on X, framing them not as a cost-cutting exercise but as a structural bet on AI. The savings, he said, will flow back to the employees who stay in the form of […]

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