Best Buy Lays Off Longtime Geek Squad Employees With Little Notice
• Best Buy has laid off a large number of Geek Squad employees this week, with some receiving short notice via email to wait for a call about their job status.
• Posts in an unofficial Geek Squad subreddit indicate the layoffs are larger in scale than previous ones, with some employees having over 30 years of service.
• Best Buy has not made any official statement, but the moves may be to reduce costs and integrate more AI, as referenced by the CEO recently.
• Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have also made AI-related job cuts lately to reduce costs.
• While companies routinely have reasons to restructure, the short notice and lack of clarity around the Best Buy layoffs seems insensitive given longstanding employees being impacted.