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JPL Workforce Update

by cptroot on 2/6/24, 11:08 PM with 12 comments

• by sitkack on 2/7/24, 2:26 AM

  > PL staff has been advised that the workforce reduction will affect approximately 530 of our colleagues, an impact of about 8%, plus approximately 40 additional members of our contractor workforce. The impacts will occur across both technical and support areas of the Lab.

  :(

  This is horrible!

• by Axien on 2/7/24, 2:02 AM

  That is the worst way I’ve ever heard of being fired.

  Sit at home and wait for an invite for a virtual meeting. After the meeting you will receive a email specifying if you have been fired. What the hell! Oh and forward that email because you are about to lose access.

• by cozzyd on 2/7/24, 2:13 AM

  I guess JPL has calculated they the chances of Congress getting their act together are slim....

  As far as I can tell, NSF grants are also stuck in "wait for appropriations" limbo as well.

• by ChrisArchitect on 2/9/24, 6:16 AM

  Related:

  A Reddit thread on the layoffs

  https://reddit.com/r/JPL/comments/1ale1s3/chaos_at_jpl/