A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

Last yr’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have but once more price tens of hundreds of tech employees their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been pushed by the most important names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have introduced cuts throughout all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. 

The reasoning behind these workforce reductions follows a typical script, citing the macroeconomic surroundings and a necessity to seek out self-discipline on a tumultuous path to profitability. Still, monitoring the layoffs helps us to grasp the influence on innovation, which firms are dealing with powerful pressures and who is accessible to rent for the companies fortunate to be rising proper now. It additionally, sadly, serves as a reminder of the human influence of layoffs and the way threat profiles could also be altering from right here. 

Below you’ll discover a comprehensive list of all of the identified layoffs in tech which have occurred in 2023, to be up to date month-to-month. If you will have a tip on a layoff, contact us right here. If you favor to stay nameless, you possibly can contact us right here.

The working complete of layoffs for 2023 primarily based on full months so far is 168,243, in accordance with Layoffs.fyi. Tech layoffs performed so far this yr at the moment exceed the entire quantity of tech layoffs in 2022, in accordance with the information within the tracker.

• January: 84,714 workers laid off — see all January 2023 Tech Layoffs
• February: 36,491 workers laid off — see all February 2023 Tech Layoffs
• March: 37,109 workers laid off — see all March 2023 Tech Layoffs
• April: 17,926 workers laid off — see all April 2023 Tech Layoffs

May 2023

Meta

Announced May 24 that it’s shedding about 6,000 individuals. In complete, about 21,000 individuals have misplaced their jobs at Meta since November.

JioMart

Reliance Retail’s on-line procuring platform laid off over 1,000 workers on May 22, and plans to chop as many as 9,900 extra roles over the approaching weeks.

Krebs Stamos Group

Announced May 18 that the consulting agency laid off six individuals. In April, the agency had 18 workers together with the founders. On May 18, the positioning reveals solely 14 workforce members.

TuSimple

Announced May 18 that it’s shedding about 30% of workers.

Prior to the layoff, TuSimple had about 550 workers within the U.S. and publish discount in pressure the corporate can have about 220, in accordance with the corporate.

Nuro

Announced May 12 that it’ll lay off 30%, or about 340 workers throughout the corporate.

LinkedIn

Announced May 8 that it’s chopping 716 jobs, or about 3.6% of complete workers, and can part out its native jobs app in China. Despite decreasing some roles, LinkedIn additionally plans to open about 250 new jobs on May 15.

Rapid

Announced May 5 that Rapid (beforehand generally known as RapidAPI) has laid off one other 70 workers lower than two weeks after letting go of 50% of its workers. Just 42 individuals stay on the firm, down from 230 in April, dropping a complete of 82% in headcount.

Meesho

Announced May 4 that it has lower 15% of its workforce, or 251 roles. This comes after its first spherical of layoffs, which eradicated 150 roles a few yr in the past.

Shopify

Announced May 4 that it’s shedding 20% of its workforce, impacting greater than 2,000 individuals. It’s additionally promoting its logistics enterprise to Flexport for roughly 13% in inventory.

Bishop Fox

Announced May 3 that it laid off round 50 workers — or 13% of its workforce on May 2.

Neato Robotics

Announced May 1 that Vorwerk-owned Neato Robotics is shutting down, with practically 100 workers impacted by the transfer.

April 2023

Clubhouse

Announced April 27 that it has laid off greater than 50% of workers. A spokesperson for Clubhouse declined to touch upon the quantity of individuals impacted by immediately’s workforce discount or the quantity of workers who stay on the firm. Last October, Davison instructed TechCrunch that Clubhouse had near 100 workers.

Dropbox

Announced April 27 that it might be shedding 500 workers or 16% of workers.

Amazon

Announced on April 26 that it’s shutting down its Halo Health division, efficient July 31, amongst different divisions. The layoffs are half of the 9,000 workers introduced in March. Including the 18,000-person layoffs introduced in January, this brings the entire to 27,000 job cuts or 8% of Amazon’s company workforce this yr.

Rapid

Announced on April 25, Rapid, beforehand generally known as RapidAPI, lays off 50% of its workers. The layoffs are believed to have impacted 115 individuals.

Anthemis Group

Announced on April 25 that it’ll lay off 16 individuals from its workers, or 28% of workers.

Lyft

Announced on April 21 that workers will be taught whether or not they have a job or not by way of an e mail that can be despatched out April 27.

Lyft layoffs to have an effect on 26% of workforce, or about 1,072 individuals as promised on April 27.

Meta

Announced April 18th that it’s anticipated to put off 10,000 jobs within the coming months. This is on prime of the 11,000 jobs that had been lower in November.

Redfin

Announced April thirteenth that it has laid off 201 workers, about 4% of its workforce. This is the third time the Seattle-based actual property firm has diminished its workforce since June.

Apple

Bloomberg reported on April 3 that Apple is shedding a small quantity of roles on its company retail groups.

March 2023

Netflix

Announced on March 31, Netflix confirms a “handful of layoffs,” which incorporates two longtime executives. The precise quantity of layoffs is unclear. Netflix is scheduled to report Q1 2023 outcomes on April 18.

Roku

Announced March 30 that it’s letting go of about 200 workers, or 6% of its workforce. The firm had laid off 200 U.S. workers again in November.

Unacademy

Announced March 30 that it has laid off greater than 350 roles, or 12% of its workforce — simply over 4 months after chopping about 350 roles in November.

Shift Technologies

Announced March 29 that it laid off 30% of its workforce in Q1 2023.

Lucid

Announced March 28 that it’s shedding 1,300 workers, or 18% of its workforce, to be accomplished by the top of Q2 2023.

GitHub

Announced on March 28 that it has eradicated over 100 jobs within the South Asian market, shedding just about its total engineering workforce in India. A GitHub spokesperson instructed TechCrunch that the layoff is an element of the streamlining effort the agency had disclosed in February to chop roughly 10% of its workforce by finish of Q1 2023.

Disney

On March 27 in an inside memo to workers, Disney revealed there can be three rounds of layoffs, the primary starting this week. The job cuts will influence roughly 7,000 workers, which was introduced in February.

Salesforce

On March 24, Bloomberg reported that extra layoffs may very well be on the way in which at Salesforce, quoting chief working officer Brian Millham, who indicated that the corporate may very well be including to the ongoing job chopping on the CRM chief and in tech generally. If the layoffs occur, it might come on prime of the ten% lower in January.

Accenture

Announced March 23 that it plans to chop 19,000 jobs, or 2.5% of its workforce.

Indeed

Announced March 22 that it’ll lay off 2,200 workers, or 15% of its workers.

Roofstock

Announced March 22 that it has laid off 27% of its workers, roughly 100 workers.

Twitch

Announced March 20 that it’ll lay off 400 workers.

Amazon

Announced March 20 one other spherical of substantial layoffs, this time 9,000 individuals are set to lose their jobs. TechCrunch is listening to that round 10% of immediately’s complete got here from AWS. As half of the brand new spherical of layoffs, Amazon is shutting down DPReview.

Livespace

Announced March 20 that it has laid off a minimum of 100 workers, about 2% of the corporate’s workforce.

Course Hero

Announced March 16 that it has lower 15% of workers, or 42 individuals.

Klaviyo

Announced March 15 that it has laid off 140 of its workers throughout all groups.

Microsoft

As an element of its latest announcement to layoff 10,000 individuals, Microsoft laid off a complete workforce devoted to guiding AI innovation that results in moral, accountable and sustainable outcomes. On March 27, Microsoft laid off 559 employees from its Bellevue and Redmond operations.

Meta

CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed rumors March 14 that the corporate can be chopping 10,000 individuals from its workforce and round 5,000 open roles that it had but to fill.

Y Combinator

Announced March 13 that it’ll influence 20% of workers, or 17 workforce members.

Salesforce…continued

Salesforce first introduced that it was shedding 10% of the workforce in January, however some workers didn’t know till February. The week of March 10, extra workers are simply studying they’ve been laid off. Salesforce confirmed that these layoffs had been half of the ten%.

Atlassian

Announced on March 6, Atlassian is shedding about 500 workers, or 5% of its complete workforce.

SiriusXM

Announced on March 6, the corporate laid off 475 workers, or 8% of its complete workforce.

Alerzo

The Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform had a headcount of greater than 2,000 earlier than a primary spherical of layoffs in September 2022. Alerzo has laid off 15% of its full-time workforce, the corporate confirmed on March 6, leaving about 800 workers on the startup.

Cerebral

Announced March 1, the corporate is letting go 15% of it’s workforce — roughly 285 workers.

Waymo

Announced March 1, Alphabet’s Waymo issued a second spherical of layoffs this yr. Combined with the preliminary cuts in January, the self-driving expertise firm has let go of 8%, or 209 workers, of its workforce.

Thoughtworks

Announced on March 1, the corporate laid off about 4% of its international workforce — roughly 500 workers.

February 2023

Twitter

Announced on February 26, the corporate laid off greater than 200 workers, together with Esther Crawford, Haraldur Thorleifsson and Leah Culver. Since Musk took over Twitter in October final yr, the corporate’s headcount has fallen by greater than 70%.

Poshmark

Announced February 24, Poshmark confirmed with TechCrunch that lower than 2% of its workforce was affected, primarily within the U.S. The firm employs roughly 800+ workers.

Green Labs

We should not have an actual determine of what number of Green Labs plans to put off its workers. Green Labs confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s conducting a spherical of layoffs that might influence a minimum of 50% of its workforce.

Chipper Cash

Announced on February 20, the African cross-border funds platform performed a second spherical of layoffs simply 10 weeks after it lower roughly 12.5% of its workforce. Chipper Cash relieved virtually one-third of its workforce, about 100 workers.

Evernote

On February 17 the corporate confirmed shedding 129 individuals.

Jumia

Announced February 16 that it lower 20% of its workers, or greater than 900 positions throughout its 11 markets, in This autumn of 2022.

Convoy

Announced on February 16 that it’s shuttering its Atlanta workplace and shedding employees as half of restructuring. This is the third time in lower than a yr that the corporate has laid off employees.

Sprinklr

Announced on February 15 that it’ll influence 4% of its international workforce — or greater than 100 workers.

iRobot

Announced on February 13 that it’ll lay off 7% of its workforce, roughly 85 workers.

Twilio

Announced on February 13 that it’ll influence round 17% of its international workforce, about 1,400 individuals.

GitHub

Announced February 9, 10% of its workers can be impacted by the top of the corporate’s fiscal yr. Before this announcement, which was first reported by Fortune, GitHub had about 3,000 workers.

Yahoo

Announced on February 9, 20% of its workers, impacting 1,600 workers in its adtech enterprise. Yahoo is the dad or mum firm to TechCrunch.

GitLab

Announced February 9 that it’s decreasing its headcount by 7%. The spherical of redundancies will influence round 114 individuals, although that particular determine relies on its precise headcount as of February 9.

Affirm

Announced on February 8 that it’s decreasing its workers by 19%, or about 500 workers, and shutting down its crypto unit.

Zoom

Announced the lower of 15% of its workers, or 1,300 individuals on February 7.

VinFast

VinFast has not shared what number of workers have been lower, however a LinkedIn publish from a former worker stated “nearly 35 roles” had been affected. Announced on February 6.

Dell

Announced February 6, impacting 6,650 individuals, or 5% of worldwide workforce.

Getaround

Announced February 2, 10% of workers — about 42 workers.

Pinterest

Announced February 2, 150 workers impacted. This is the second job-cutting transfer inside weeks of the primary spherical in December 2022.

Rivian

Announced on February 1, chopping 6% of its workforce for the second time in lower than a yr.

January 2023

SoFi Technologies

Announced on January 31, chopping 65 jobs, or about 5% of its 1,300-person workforce. First reported by The Wall Street Journal.

NetApp

Announced on January 31, impacting 8% of its workers — about 960 individuals.

Groupon

Impacting one other 500 workers introduced on January 31. The firm stated this new set of layoffs can be unfold throughout the primary two quarters of 2023.

Impossible Foods

Reportedly affecting 20% of its workers, over 100 workers, Bloomberg reported first.

PayPal

Announced on January 30, about 2,000 full-time workers, or 7% of its workforce, had been affected.

Arrival

Announced on January 30, with a newly appointed CEO, slashing 50% of its workforce — 800 workers globally.

Waymo

The self-driving expertise unit beneath Alphabet quietly laid off employees on January 24, in accordance with The Information and a number of other posts on LinkedIn and Blind. It’s not but clear what number of of Waymo’s workers can be affected.

Spotify

Announced on January 23, impacting round 6% of its international workforce — round 600 workers.

Alphabet

Google’s dad or mum firm introduced shedding 6% of its international workforce on January 21, equating to 12,000 workers. These cuts influence divisions equivalent to Area 120, the Google in-house incubator and Alphabet’s robotics division, Intrinsic.

Fandom

The leisure firm introduced an unspecified quantity of workers impacted throughout a number of properties on January 20. According to a report by Variety, the corporate employs round 500 individuals, and the layoffs have affected roughly 10% of its workers throughout totally different websites.

Swiggy

Announced plans to put off 380 jobs on January 20 and shut down its meat market.

Sophos

Announced on January 18, 10% of its international workforce, about 450 individuals had been let go.

Microsoft

As introduced on January 18, 10,000 workers can be impacted.

GoMechanic

Laid off 70% of its workforce on January 18.

Clearco

Announced on January 17, impacting 30% of workers throughout all groups.

ShareChat

Announced on January 15, ShareChat laid off 20% of its workforce — or over 400 workers — only a month after eliminating greater than 100 roles.

SmartNews

Announced on January 12 a 40% discount of its U.S. and China workforce, or round 120 individuals.

Intrinsic

Alphabet’s robotic software program agency, Intrinsic, is shedding 40 workers TechCrunch confirmed on January 12. Amounting to round 20% of the headcount.

Greenlight

The fintech startup providing debit playing cards to youngsters laid off 104 workers on January 12, or over 21% of its complete headcount of 485 workers.

Career Karma

Learning navigation platform Career Karma laid off one other 22 individuals on January 12 throughout its international and home workforce.

DirectTV

Announced on January 12 plans to put off about 10% of its administration workers on January 20.

Informatica

Reported on January 11 that it’ll lay off 7% of it’s workforce, or 450 staffers globally.

Carta

Announced on January 11, the fairness administration platform lower 10% of its workers. Judging by LinkedIn knowledge, the layoff may have impacted round 200 workers.

Citizen

Impacting 33 workers members on January 11.

Coinbase

To lower 950 jobs, or about 20% of its workforce, and shut down “several” initiatives, introduced on January 10. This is the second spherical of main layoffs on the crypto alternate, which eradicated 18% of its workforce, or practically 1,100 jobs final June.

SuperRare

The NFT market is chopping 30% of its workers, introduced on January 6.

Amazon

Announced on January 5, eliminating greater than 18,000 roles. This announcement extends a beforehand introduced spherical of layoffs in November of 2022. On January 19, the corporate introduced it might finish AmazonSmile.

Salesforce

Announced on January 4 that it’s chopping 10% of its workforce, impacting greater than 7,000 workers. A month later, some Salesforce workers had simply discovered they had been additionally an element of the ten% layoff announcement.

Vimeo

Announced on January 4, chopping 11% of its workforce.

Editor’s notice: Natasha Mascarenhas has contributed to this compilation.