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A | SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- LinkedIn said Monday it is laying off hundreds of employees amounting to about 3% of the social media company's workforce.The Microsoft-owned career network is cutting about 668 roles across its engineering, product, talent and finance teams. “Talent changes are a difficult, but necessary and regular part of managing our business,” the company said in a statement. The job cuts follow another more than 700 layoffs LinkedIn announced in May, as well as thousands more this year from parent company Microsoft, which has owned the professional-networking service since buying it for $26 billion in 2016.LinkedIn keeps growing and said its annual revenue surpassed $15 billion for the first time in the fiscal year that ended in June. The service, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, makes money from advertisements on the platform as well as from users who pay to subscribe for premium features.LinkedIn reports having about 19,500 employees.Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft as of July had a global workforce of 221,000 full-time employees, with more than half of those in the U.S.It's adding thousands more as part of its $69 billion acquisition of California video game-maker Activision Blizzard, which closed Friday. As of late last year, Activision Blizzard reported having 13,000 employees.。 London, Oct 20 (UNI) A chaotic day in Parliament has left Prime Minister Liz Truss's survival even more uncertain after the sudden resignation of her Home Secretary and angry scenes during a fracking vote in the Commons.
Opposition MPs alleged some Tories were bullied and manhandled into voting with the government on fracking.
A Minister denied the claim but many Tory MPs ended the day feeling angry and let down by their own party.
Conservative MP Charles Walker said the situation was a "shambles". Visibly furious, he told the BBC there was "no coming back" for the government.
Later he added: "I expect the Prime Minister to resign very soon because she's not up to her job."
Downing Street started on Wednesday believing the Prime Mnister was on a more solid footing after the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor -- and his decision to reverse much of Truss's mini-Budget -- appeared to have calmed the markets.
She also survived Prime Minister's Questions -- the weekly question session with MPs -- relatively unscathed.
However, things began to unravel for Truss shortly afterwards.
It seems near impossible that this chaos can be bottled and buried. An implosion feels unavoidable, perhaps imminent, the BBC reported.
The dysfunction is too profound, the outrage among Conservatives too deep-seated for any sense of serenity to be established for as long as Liz Truss is Prime Minister.
Those still supportive of her point out that finding an alternative Prime Minister quickly is difficult and even if this was pulled off, it would be seen as absurd to many around the country.
And so the clamour for a general election would be deafening.
The Prime Minister was forced to hastily cancel a visit to an electronics manufacturer in order to have a meeting with Suella Braverman after her Home Secretary broke government data rules.
The BBC has been told Ms Braverman breached the ministerial code by sending a government document to someone not authorised to receive it.
In her resignation letter, Braverman acknowledged there had been "a technical infringement of the rules". She added: "I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility: I resign."
However, she also took an angry swipe at the government by accusing it of breaking "key pledges" and failing to reduce immigration numbers.
Her departure makes Braverman the shortest-serving Home Secretary since World War II -- and comes less than a week after the resignation of Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor.
Grant Shapps -- who Truss had sacked as Transport Secretary six weeks ago -- became the new Home Secretary.
Shortly after Mr Shapps arrived at the Home Office to start his new job, chaotic scenes began to play out in the Commons, where MPs were voting on fracking.
Labour had tabled a vote which, if passed, would give MPs a say on the government's plans to bring back fracking.
Labour MP Chris Bryant claimed some Conservative MPs had been physically manhandled in the voting lobbies to ensure they supported the government.
Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg also said he would not characterise the events as bullying.
Former Brexit minister Lord David Frost - once an ally of Truss - has called on the Prime Minister to go.
He added: "The Truss government messed things up more badly than anyone could have imagined."
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