By Tamika Seeto
Publication Date: 2026-03-02 05:02:00
Natalie MacDonald remembers feeling like her “world had collapsed under her feet” when she found out her role had been axed. Their job losses were part of what is now being called an “AI transformation” as some of Australia’s largest companies have announced mass layoffs in recent days.
After seven years at LinkedIn, MacDonald learned at 1 a.m. that her role as senior news editor had been eliminated. The Sydney mother-of-two had returned from maternity leave just six weeks earlier and was up late with her baby doing the classic “working parent juggle.”
“LinkedIn, like many tech companies around the world as a U.S.-focused organization, kind of thought something was coming,” she said Yahoo Finance.
“So when the big company-wide email came that there was going to be a restructuring, it wasn’t a big surprise.”
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