The trend comes as employee engagement continues to decline.
The owner of social media platform Snapchat said Wednesday the company is eliminating about 16% of its global workforce, or about 1,000 jobs that will be culled in its latest round of layoffs.
There is renewed focus on a retired San Francisco firefighter, whose treatment for stage 4 cancer was initially denied by the city-provided insurer, Blue Shield. On Wednesday, a city committee convened a hearing to ask Blue Shield executives why he and so many other city retirees are seeing their claims rejected.
San Francisco Superior Court clerks say they look forward to getting back to serving the public Monday morning after a tentative agreement was reached Friday afternoon following a strike that started Thursday.
Roughly 200 San Francisco court clerks walked off the job Thursday, citing staffing shortages and what they describe as insufficient training. It's the latest strain on a court system already grappling with backlogs and delays.
There were smiles and hugs from teachers and students who returned to school Wednesday after the citywide teachers' strike that ended in a $183 million deal with the school district. But looming over the historic deal is a cloud of potential layoffs in the near future.