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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the…
Unacademy is slashing another 250 jobs in latest round of cuts as Indian edtech sector continues to struggle.Q
Peloton, the exercise equipment maker, said it is laying off 15% of its workforce as part of cost-cutting measures.
A tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023. Though 2024 has gotten off to a rough start, it has yet to reach the peak of the…
India’s Ola has let go its chief executive, Hemant Bakshi, just four months after appointing him to the post, and is cutting about 180 jobs.
Today, we’re going over Zum’s $140M round, why Ramp is on an acquisition spree, and how the tech layoff season simply refuses to fade away.
It’s not hard to spot the human pain in the market today.
Proofpoint is laying off about 6% of its global workforce, or 280 employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. “This decision was not taken lightly, and it is deeply rooted in…
The SaaS startup, which provides software to solar installers, reportedly missed its growth targets for the past year.
January has thus far seen 23,670 known tech layoffs, sourced from 85 known reductions, and hitting tech shops big and small.
Discord has become a mainstay for many online communities in recent years, but its relative success hasn’t shielded the platform from the financial woes plaguing the tech industry. Like other…
Welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups. This is our revamped Wednesday episode, and we’re going to be digging into critical startup and…
Another round of layoffs is hitting Twitch. The Amazon-owned livestreaming platform will cut 35% of its staff, or roughly 500 employees, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Twitch publicly confirmed the layoffs in…
This is our Friday show, and today, Mary Ann Azevedo and Alex Wilhelm took on the week’s biggest tech, startup and venture capital news.
Despite a rise in cyberattacks and breaches, the cybersecurity industry is by no means exempt from the uncertainty inspired by the current economy. 2023 will likely be remembered as the…
Black representatives in Congress voice concerns over impact of tech layoffs on minority workers
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have written to the US Acting Secretary of Labor expressing concerns over the disproportionate impact tech layoffs could have on Black workers,
With a compassionate approach, companies can ensure that they help their employees find new beginnings rather than just marking an end.
Spotify is simply tinkering with its economics so that it is more attractive to investors. That means it needs to pay fewer salaries.
Provided that tech stocks don’t drop by a surprise 10%, I suspect that we’re entering a period in which tech companies once again grow their headcounts
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A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs
Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors,…
SecureWorks said Monday it will let go of 15% of its workforce, the cybersecurity company’s second round of layoffs this year. In a regulatory filing, SecureWorks said that it would…
Astra lays off 25% of workforce, reallocates engineers, in an effort to fight dwindling cash reserves
Astra has laid off 25% of its workforce since the beginning of the quarter and is reallocating at least 50 engineers and manufacturing staff away from its launch business to…
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We’re in the pruning phase of tech layoffs
Now in summer in this part of the world, are we running low of things to talk about? Not in the slightest.
The era of tech layoffs is not yet past, but it is losing some of its intensity and changing into a unique trend.
TrueCar, a platform where people can research new and used car prices and find local dealer savings, is laying off 24% of staff due to a restructure, the company said…
A consulting firm founded and run by two well-known cybersecurity veterans laid off six people last week, TechCrunch has learned. Krebs Stamos Group was founded in 2021 by former Facebook…
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A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs
Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors,…
Hollywood’s writers already had a mechanism in place to rebuff what they consider to be unfair changes to their compensation and employment. Tech workers don’t have that muscle.
Cybersecurity firm Bishop Fox laid off around 50 employees — or 13% of its workforce — on Tuesday, the company told TechCrunch. The layoffs come just a few days after…
Virgin Orbit announced mass layoffs of 85% of its workforce, or 675 people, after it failed to secure additional funding.
