By the end of 2025, the tech layoffs that began in November 2022 had reached a scale most people now accept as normal: 123,000 people across 257 companies. What made 2025 different from 2023 and 2024 …
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In May 2025, Microsoft announced the elimination of 6,000 roles across engineering, product management, and leadership. The company simultaneously announced a $80 billion capital allocation toward AI …
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In March 2025, federal agencies announced workforce reductions totaling approximately 200,000 positions. The layoff announcements increased 205% compared to the same period in previous years. The …
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February 2025 was brutal. Across Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, IBM, and a dozen other major tech firms, 16,000 jobs disappeared in a single month. The headlines blared that “AI” was …
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In August 2024, Intel announced that it would cut 15,000 jobs, representing 15% of its workforce. Days later, Cisco announced 6,000 layoffs, about 8% of its total headcount. These weren’t small …
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The new year opened with a grim headline that we’ve now learned to expect with eerie regularity: 34,000 tech workers lost their jobs in January 2024 alone. Google, Amazon, Discord, Twitch, …
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By April 2023, hundreds of thousands of tech workers had been laid off. The shock had worn off, and what remained was more complicated: the anger, the doubt, the strange mix of relief and terror, and …
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There’s a type of professional paranoia that’s completely reasonable, and we should talk about it. It’s not the kind where you’re constantly scanning for threats that …
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If you opened your news feed in January 2023, you probably felt the ground shift. Amazon announced 18,000 job cuts. Google followed with 12,000. Microsoft eliminated 10,000 positions. Meta cut 11,000 …
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