According to an analysis, 30 thousand layoffs were made in the technology sector in January alone. 2024 is really incredibly bad started.
According to data from Layoffs.fyi In 2024, the first month of which has just passed, 29,995 people were dismissed from 112 different companies. It is reported that this number includes 150 Zoom-based layoffs today, which seems really bad and sad. layoffs.fyi He states that 1,189 technology companies will lay off 262,595 employees in 2023. The last person to come to the fore on this issue was Google. As far as it turns out, the company is fully prepared to complete the layoffs of around 12 thousand in 2023. It has spent around 2.1 billion dollars. As for the layoffs made by the company within the scope of 2024, It is reported that it spent 700 million dollars. When parting ways with his employees compensation they should give them And some other legal tenders Of course, the company saves money in the long run with these layoffs, but the cost of large layoffs made all at once seems really high. Meanwhile, today payment giant PayPal 2,500Block, the company of Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, 1,000 It was also announced that he parted ways with 500 employees.
There have been many other layoff news recently. For example, he bought the company Activision Blizzard after a very long effort and paid a huge amount of money. Microsoft, recently parted ways with 1,900 people from the company it took under its umbrella, as well as from its Xbox division. This step of Microsoft, which has a total of 22 thousand employees, is not the only layoff the company has made recently. Meanwhile, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra decided to leave the company (This is seen as a huge loss), in addition, a survival game Blizzard was working on was also canceled.
Last week, Riot Games, TikTok and Google came to the fore with new releases. If the last eBay He gave sad news. According to the official announcement, one of the most important names in shopping eBay is parting ways with approximately 1,000 employees. The company, which gave bad news to approximately 9 percent of its workforce due to the ongoing economic conditions, is reportedly unable to grow at the level it wants.