Around 109,000 technology industry employees from 392 companies have been laid off since the start of the year, according to the industry employment tracking website Layoffs.Fyi.
At the current pace, around 650,000 tech employees could lose their current jobs, which is about a 300 percent increase from 2022, when 160,997 people got pink slips, according to Layoffs.Fyi.
Earlier this month, the computer maker Dell announced plans to cut about 6,650 employees, in a plan to reduce its workforce by about 5 percent. Last month, Google began layoffs of 12,000 workers, or about 6 percent of its workforce. Microsoft also began cutting about 10,000 jobs in January. Amazon also announced plans to cut 8,000 jobs, on top of about 10,000 it slashed at the end of last year….