# Offboard > Weekly newsletter where jobseekers gain their edge with trends, tools, & more. This file provides information about Offboard to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [Intel Cut the Jobs Everyone Told You to Run To](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/intel-cut-the-jobs-everyone-told-you-to-run-to): A division that grew 22% still got the axe, and Verizon, Samsung, and Exodus all reached for the thesaurus. Four nicer words for "you're fired," and who's still hiring anyway. - [You Paid For These Benefits. Go Collect.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/you-paid-for-these-benefits-go-collect): State disability can pay 4x your unemployment check, burnout counts, and 6 million people just became eligible for a tax-free savings account. - [Job Packets are on Product Hunt today](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/job-packets-are-on-product-hunt-today): Paste a job posting, get everything you need to apply. Today the internet weighs in. - [One in Three Job Posts Is a Ghost.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/one-in-three-job-posts-is-a-ghost): A third of the listings you're grinding on were never real. 80% of recruiters admit posting jobs that don't exist. Five states are finally moving to make it illegal. - [The Cheapest Layoff Is a Return-to-Office Order.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/the-cheapest-layoff-is-a-return-to-office-order): California just marched 90,000 state workers back to their desks 4 days a week. The unions are swinging back, and every CFO in tech is watching. - [The Labor Market Is 'Back to Normal.' Software Isn't.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/the-labor-market-is-back-to-normal-software-isn-t): Overall job postings sit at 100.4, basically pre-pandemic. Software development sits at 72, the weakest major sector. AI postings just hit a record. - [You're job-hunting in the wrong half of tech](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/you-re-job-hunting-in-the-wrong-half-of-tech): Cuts run 1,115 a day and dominate your feed, but security postings are up 124% and barely make the news. - [The Layoff Announcement Is Going Extinct](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/the-layoff-announcement-is-going-extinct): Google cut in silence, Wix's AI excuse fell apart, and salary secrecy just became illegal in Europe. - [A top ATS filter rejects 40,000 qualified people](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/a-top-ats-filter-rejects-40-000-qualified-people): Stanford research proves that the hiring game is rigged - [Your CEO Has AI Psychosis. Your Severance Is The Symptom.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/your-ceo-has-ai-psychosis-your-severance-is-the-symptom): Box's Aaron Levie just named what's been driving the 2026 layoffs out loud, and the data backs him up. - [Meta Fired 8,000 People Before Sunrise.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/meta-fired-8-000-people-before-sunrise): Record profit, a leaked all-hands, and termination emails timed to the clock. - [Alameda County is looking to become the model](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/alameda-county-is-looking-to-become-the-model): Rohan Marfatia is helping us test what faster, smarter workforce support could look like in Alameda County. - [LinkedIn Cut 1,000 of Its Own. Look Somewhere Else.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/linkedin-cut-1-000-of-its-own-look-somewhere-else): The network is now also a layoff statistic. Plan accordingly. - [AI-Native Pods Are Coming for Your Org Chart](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/ai-native-pods-are-coming-for-your-org-chart): Brian Armstrong calls them AI-native pods. The rest of us call it the new layoff playbook. - [Microsoft Invented a New Word for Layoffs](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/microsoft-invented-a-new-word-for-layoffs): Call it a buyout. Call it voluntary retirement. The 8,750 chairs still go away. - [The AI-Washing Layoff Playbook Is Already Backfiring](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/the-ai-washing-layoff-playbook-is-already-backfiring): Companies cut workers to replace them with AI. Then the quiet rehiring started. Your skepticism was justified. - [The Workforce Is Done Asking Nicely.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/the-workforce-is-done-asking-nicely): Warehouses burning, a CEO's house attacked twice, Snap and Disney cutting another 2,000. Something has shifted. - [Goldman Sachs Counted the Bodies. 16,000 Jobs a Month.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/goldman-sachs-counted-the-bodies-16-000-jobs-a-month): Wall Street finally put a number on AI displacement, Meta keeps trimming Reality Labs, and the RTO hammer drops on Home Depot. - [Oracle Just Fired 30,000 People With a 6 A.M. Email](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/oracle-just-fired-30-000-people-with-a-6-a-m-email): The largest layoff in Oracle's history, Epic's terminally ill employee scandal, and why the Labor Department wants you to text READY to 20202. - [Everyone Told You Tech Was Dead. They Were Wrong.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/everyone-told-you-tech-was-dead-they-were-wrong): PM and eng roles are ripping, Block is rehiring post-AI cuts, OpenAI is scaling hard, and LUMO Lab speeds your applications - [Workday's AI Hiring Tools Are on Trial](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/workday-s-ai-hiring-tools-are-on-trial): Workday’s AI hiring tools face an age bias trial as Dell and Meta squeeze headcount, while AI funding sprees create new targets. - [Oracle Wants to Fire 30,000 People to Pay for Servers That Aren't Profitable Yet.](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/oracle-wants-to-fire-30-000-people-to-pay-for-servers-that-aren-t-profitable-yet): Record revenue, record debt, record layoffs. Plus: Anthropic takes the Pentagon to court and Nvidia bets billions on the AI buildout. - [Why Did 1.5 Million ChatGPT Users Walk Away?](https://newsletter.offboard.co/p/why-did-1-5-million-chatgpt-users-walk-away): Sam Altman sold out to the Department of War. Now ChatGPT users are flooding to Claude, and the #QuitGPT movement isn't slowing down.