In mid-October, new Nestlé CEO Philipp Navratil announced that the company will eliminate 6,000 jobs – or about 5.8% of its global workforce – over the next two years. The layoffs will include roughly 12,000 white-collar roles, as well as “a further 4,000 headcount reduction” as part of its plan to ignite a “turnaround fire” by cutting costs and improving efficiency, partially via automation. And on October 21, The New York Times reported that Amazon executives believe t
