A detailed list of 2023 tech layoffs

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Last year’s techwide numeration continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet once again cost 10s of countless tech employees their jobs; this time, the labor force decreases have actually been driven by the most significant names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have actually revealed cuts throughout all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. 

The thinking behind these labor force decreases follows a typical script, pointing out the macroeconomic environment and a requirement to discover discipline on a troubled course to success. Still, tracking the layoffs assists us to comprehend the influence on development, which business are dealing with hard pressures and who is available to employ for the businesses lucky to be growing today. It likewise, regrettably, works as a tip of the human effect of layoffs and how danger profiles might be altering from here. 

Below you’ll discover a thorough list of all the recognized layoffs in tech that have actually taken place in 2023, to be upgraded monthly. If you have a pointer on a layoff, call us here. If you choose to stay confidential, you can call us here.

The running overall of layoffs for 2023 based upon complete months to date is 224,503, according to Layoffs.fyi. Tech layoffs carried out to date this year presently surpass the overall variety of tech layoffs in 2022, according to the information in the tracker.

Data visualization by Miranda Halpern, developed with Flourish

August 2023

Mobile Premier League

Announced on August 8 that it is laying off around 50% of its workers or 350 individuals.

Astra

Announced on August 4 that it has actually laid off 25% of its labor force considering that the start of the quarter.

Discord

Announced on August 3 that it has actually released almost 40 workers or 4% of its labor force.

HackerOne

Announced on August 2 that it is laying off 12% of its labor force, around 50 workers.

Planet

Announced on August 1 that it is laying off 117 workers, or 10% of staff.

July 2023

Dunzo

Announced July 19 that it is holding off staff member incomes for a month and prepares a new age of layoffs as quickly as July 20. Dunzo executives notified workers that they will likely be cutting over 200 jobs, in what will be its 3rd layoff this year. The business has actually gotten rid of about 400 jobs this year up until now.

Cameo

Announced on July 18 that it means to lay off 80 employees.

Skill-Lync

Announced on July 13 that the Indian start-up has actually laid off 20% of its labor force, around 225 workers.

Crunchbase

Announced on ConnectedIn on July 9 that the business is laying off 52 workers.

Microsoft

Announced July 10 that the business is getting rid of extra jobs a week after the start of its 2023 . These layoffs remain in addition to the 10,000 layoffs revealed in January.

ClickUp

Announced on July 4 that it has actually laid off 10% of its labor force, about 90 individuals.

June 2023

Niantic

Announced June 29 that it laid of 230 workers—one year after it laid off around 90 workers.

Plex

Announced June 29 that it laid off around 20% of its staff, or 37 workers.

Grab

Announced the week of June 23 that it laid off more than a thousand individuals, or 11% of its staff.

Olx Group

Announced on June 20 that it has actually cut around 800 jobs worldwide. The news comes as the business began to close operations of its vehicle business nit Olx Autos in some markets.

Mojocare

Announced on June 18 that the business will be laying off some 150 workers, a bulk of the labor force.

Tada

Operated by Korean ride-sharing business Socar’s subsidiary VCNC revealed on June 15 that it prepares to let go of a minimum of 50% of its staff or about 45 individuals at Tada.

Better.com

Announced on June 7 that it laid off its realty group, it is unclear the number of individuals were affected.

Ursa Major

At least 14 individuals have actually been laid off from the rocket engine start-up, revealed on June 7. Ursa Major did not react to TechCrunch’s query into the layoffs, or the variety of individuals impacted. According to ConnectedIn, 292 individuals are noted as presently operating at Ursa.

Spotify

Announced June 5 that it will cut 200 jobs in its podcast system, causing a labor force decrease of 2%. This comes simply a couple of months after the business revealed a substantial wave of layoffs.

May 2023

Taxfix

Announced on May 30 that it has actually laid off 20% of staff—120 workers.

Meta

Announced May 24 that it is laying off about 6,000 individuals. In overall, about 21,000 individuals have actually lost their jobs at Meta considering that November.

JioMart

Reliance Retail’s online shopping platform laid off over 1,000 workers on May 22, and prepares to cut as lots of as 9,900 more functions over the coming weeks.

Krebs Stamos Group

Announced May 18 that the consulting company laid off 6 individuals. In April, the company had 18 workers consisting of the creators. On May 18, the website reveals just 14 employee.

TuSimple

Announced May 18 that it is laying off about 30% of workers.

Prior to the layoff, TuSimple had about 550 workers in the U.S. and post decrease in force the business will have about 220, according to the business.

Nuro

Announced May 12 that it will lay off 30%, or about 340 workers throughout the business.

ConnectedIn

Announced May 8 that it is cutting 716 jobs, or about 3.6% of overall workers, and will phase out its regional jobs app in China. Despite minimizing some functions, ConnectedIn likewise prepares to open about 250 brand-new jobs on May 15.

Rapid

Announced May 5 that Rapid (formerly called RapidAPI) has actually laid off another 70 workers less than 2 weeks after releasing 50% of its staff. Just 42 individuals stay at the business, below 230 in April, dropping an overall of 82% in headcount.

Meesho

Announced May 4 that it has actually cut 15% of its labor force, or 251 functions. This follows its preliminary of layoffs, which removed 150 functions about a year earlier.

Shopify

Announced May 4 that it is laying off 20% of its labor force, affecting more than 2,000 individuals. It’s likewise offering its logistics business to Flexport for approximately 13% in stock.

Bishop Fox

Announced May 3 that it laid off around 50 workers — or 13% of its labor force — on May 2.

Neato Robotics

Announced May 1 that Vorwerk-owned Neato Robotics is closing down, with almost 100 workers affected by the relocation.

April 2023

Clubhouse

Announced April 27 that it has actually laid off more than 50% of staff. A representative for Clubhouse decreased to talk about the variety of individuals affected by today’s labor force decrease or the variety of workers who stay at the business. Last October, Davison informed TechCrunch that Clubhouse had near to 100 workers.

Dropbox

Announced April 27 that it would be laying off 500 workers or 16% of staff.

Amazon

Announced on April 26 that it is closing down its Halo Health department, reliable July 31, to name a few departments. The layoffs belong to the 9,000 workers revealed in March. Including the 18,000-person layoffs revealed in January, this brings the overall to 27,000 job cuts or 8% of Amazon’s business labor force this year.

Rapid

Announced on April 25, Rapid, formerly called RapidAPI, lays off 50% of its staff. The layoffs are thought to have actually affected 115 individuals.

Anthemis Group

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

Lyft

Announced on April 21 that workers will learn whether they work or not by means of an email that will be sent April 27.

Lyft layoffs to impact 26% of labor force, or about 1,072 individuals as guaranteed on April 27.

Meta

Announced April 18th that it is anticipated to lay off 10,000 jobs in the coming months. This is on top of the 11,000 jobs that were cut in November.

Redfin

Announced April 13th that it has actually laid off 201 workers, about 4% of its labor force. This is the 3rd time the Seattle-based realty business has actually lowered its labor force considering that June.

Apple

Bloomberg reported on April 3 that Apple is laying off a little number of functions on its business retail groups.

March 2023

Netflix

Announced on March 31, Netflix validates a “handful of layoffs,” that includes 2 long time executives. The specific variety of layoffs is uncertain. Netflix is scheduled to report Q1 2023 outcomes on April 18.

Roku

Announced March 30 that it is releasing about 200 workers, or 6% of its labor force. The business had actually laid off 200 U.S. workers back in November.

Unacademy

Announced March 30 that it has actually laid off more than 350 functions, or 12% of its labor force — simply over 4 months after cutting about 350 functions in November.

Shift Technologies

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

Lucid

Announced March 28 that it is laying off 1,300 workers, or 18% of its labor force, to be finished by the end of Q2 2023.

GitHub

Announced on March 28 that it has actually gotten rid of over 100 jobs in the South Asian market, laying off practically its whole engineering group in India. A GitHub representative informed TechCrunch that the layoff becomes part of the improving effort the company had actually revealed in February to cut approximately 10% of its labor force by end of Q1 2023.

Disney

On March 27 in an internal memo to workers, Disney revealed there will be 3 rounds of layoffs, the very first start today. The job cuts will affect around 7,000 workers, which was revealed in February.

Salesforce

On March 24, Bloomberg reported that more layoffs might be en route at Salesforce, pricing quote primary running officer Brian Millham, who showed that the business might be contributing to the continuous job cutting at the CRM leader and in tech in basic. If the layoffs take place, it would begin top of the 10% cut in January.

Accenture

Announced March 23 that it prepares to cut 19,000 jobs, or 2.5% of its labor force.

Indeed

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

Roofstock

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

Twitch

Announced March 20 that it will lay off 400 workers.

Amazon

Announced March 20 another round of considerable layoffs, this time 9,000 individuals are set to lose their jobs. TechCrunch is hearing that around 10% these days’s overall originated from AWS. As part of the brand-new round of layoffs, Amazon is closing down DPReview.

Livespace

Announced March 20 that it has actually laid off a minimum of 100 workers, about 2% of the business’s labor force.

Course Hero

Announced March 16 that it has actually cut 15% of staff, or 42 individuals.

Klaviyo

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

Microsoft

As a part of its recent statement to layoff 10,000 individuals, Microsoft laid off a whole group devoted to assisting AI development that results in ethical, accountable and sustainable results. On March 27, Microsoft laid off 559 employees from its Bellevue and Redmond operations.

Meta

CEO Mark Zuckerberg validated reports March 14 that the business will be cutting 10,000 individuals from its labor force and around 5,000 open functions that it had yet to fill.

Y Combinator

Announced March 13 that it will affect 20% of staff, or 17 employee.

Salesforce…continued

Salesforce initially revealed that it was laying off 10% of the labor force in January, however some workers didn’t understand till February. The week of March 10, more workers are simply discovering they have actually been laid off. Salesforce validated that these layoffs became part of the 10%.

Atlassian

Announced on March 6, Atlassian is laying off about 500 workers, or 5% of its overall labor force.

SiriusXM

Announced on March 6, the business laid off 475 workers, or 8% of its overall labor force.

Alerzo

The Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform had a headcount of more than 2,000 prior to a preliminary of layoffs in September 2022. Alerzo has actually laid off 15% of its full-time labor force, the business validated on March 6, leaving about 800 workers at the start-up.

Cerebral

Announced March 1, the business is releasing 15% of it’s labor force — approximately 285 workers.

Waymo

Announced March 1, Alphabet’s Waymo provided a 2nd round of layoffs this year. Combined with the preliminary cuts in January, the self-driving innovation business has actually released 8%, or 209 workers, of its labor force.

Thoughtworks

Announced on March 1, the business laid off about 4% of its international labor force — around 500 workers.

February 2023

Twitter

Announced on February 26, the business laid off more than 200 workers, consisting of Esther Crawford, Haraldur Thorleifsson and Leah Culver. Since Musk took control of Twitter in October in 2015, the business’s headcount has actually fallen by more than 70%.

Poshmark

Announced February 24, Poshmark validated with TechCrunch that less than 2% of its labor force was impacted, mainly in the U.S. The business utilizes approximately 800+ workers.

Green Labs

We do not have a specific figure of the number of Green Labs prepares to lay off its staff. Green Labs validated to TechCrunch that it is performing a round of layoffs that might affect a minimum of 50% of its labor force.

Chipper Cash

Announced on February 20, the African cross-border payments platform carried out a 2nd round of layoffs simply 10 weeks after it cut around 12.5% of its labor force. Chipper Cash relieved almost one-third of its labor force, about 100 workers.

Evernote

On February 17 the business validated laying off 129 individuals.

Jumia

Announced February 16 that it cut 20% of its staff, or more than 900 positions throughout its 11 markets, in Q4 of 2022.

Convoy

Announced on February 16 that it is shuttering its Atlanta workplace and laying off employees as part of restructuring. This is the 3rd time in less than a year that the business has actually laid off employees.

Sprinklr

Announced on February 15 that it will affect 4% of its international labor force — or more than 100 workers.

iRobot

Announced on February 13 that it will lay off 7% of its labor force, approximately 85 workers.

Twilio

Announced on February 13 that it will affect around 17% of its international labor force, about 1,400 individuals.

GitHub

Announced February 9, 10% of its staff will be affected through completion of the business’s . Before this statement, which was initially reported by Fortune, GitHub had about 3,000 workers.

Yahoo

Announced on February 9, 20% of its staff, affecting 1,600 workers in its adtech business. Yahoo is the parent business to TechCrunch.

GitLab

Announced February 9 that it’s minimizing its headcount by 7%. The round of redundancies will affect around 114 individuals, though that particular figure depends on its real headcount since February 9.

Affirm

Announced on February 8 that it is minimizing its staff by 19%, or about 500 workers, and closing down its crypto system.

Zoom

Announced the cut of 15% of its staff, or 1,300 individuals on February 7.

VinFast

VinFast has actually not shared the number of workers have actually been cut, however a ConnectedIn post from a previous staff member said “nearly 35 roles” were impacted. Announced on February 6.

Dell

Announced February 6, affecting 6,650 individuals, or 5% of around the world labor force.

Getaround

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

Pinterest

Announced February 2, 150 workers affected. This is the 2nd job-cutting relocation within weeks of the preliminary in December 2022.

Rivian

Announced on February 1, cutting 6% of its labor force for the 2nd time in less than a year.

January 2023

SoFi Technologies

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

NetApp

Announced on January 31, affecting 8% of its staff — about 960 individuals.

Groupon

Impacting another 500 workers revealed on January 31. The business said this brand-new set of layoffs will be spread out throughout the very first 2 quarters of 2023.

Impossible Foods

Reportedly impacting 20% of its staff, over 100 workers, Bloomberg reported initially.

PayPal

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

Arrival

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

Waymo

The self-driving technology unit under Alphabet quietly laid off workers on January 24, according to The Information and several posts on LinkedIn and Blind. It’s not yet clear how many of Waymo’s staff will be affected.

Spotify

Announced on January 23, impacting around 6% of its global labor force — around 600 employees.

Alphabet

Google’s parent company announced laying off 6% of its global workforce on January 21, equating to 12,000 employees. These cuts impact divisions such as Area 120, the Google in-house incubator and Alphabet’s robotics division, Intrinsic.

Fandom

The entertainment company announced an unspecified number of employees impacted across multiple properties on January 20. According to a report by Variety, the company employs around 500 people, and the layoffs have impacted roughly 10% of its staff across different sites.

Swiggy

Announced plans to lay off 380 jobs on January 20 and shut down its meat marketplace.

Sophos

Announced on January 18, 10% of its global labor force, about 450 people were let go.

Microsoft

As announced on January 18, 10,000 workers will be impacted.

GoMechanic

Laid off 70% of its workforce on January 18.

Clearco

Announced on January 17, impacting 30% of staff across all teams.

ShareChat

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

SmartNews

Announced on January 12 a 40% reduction of its U.S. and China workforce, or around 120 people.

Intrinsic

Alphabet’s robot software firm, Intrinsic, is laying off 40 employees TechCrunch confirmed on January 12. Amounting to around 20% of the headcount.

Greenlight

The fintech startup offering debit cards to kids laid off 104 employees on January 12, or over 21% of its total headcount of 485 employees.

Career Karma

Learning navigation platform Career Karma laid off another 22 people on January 12 across its global and domestic workforce.

DirectTV

Announced on January 12 plans to lay off about 10% of its management staff on January 20.

Informatica

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

Carta

Announced on January 11, the equity management platform cut 10% of its staff. Judging by ConnectedIn data, the layoff could have impacted around 200 employees.

Citizen

Impacting 33 staff members on January 11.

Coinbase

To cut 950 jobs, or about 20% of its workforce, and shut down “several” projects, announced on January 10. This is the second round of major layoffs at the crypto exchange, which eliminated 18% of its workforce, or nearly 1,100 jobs last June.

SuperRare

The NFT marketplace is cutting 30% of its staff, announced on January 6.

Amazon

Announced on January 5, eliminating more than 18,000 roles. This announcement extends a previously announced round of layoffs in November of 2022. On January 19, the company announced it would end AmazonSmile.

Salesforce

Announced on January 4 that it’s cutting 10% of its workforce, affecting more than 7,000 employees. A month later, some Salesforce employees had just found out they were also a part of the 10% layoff announcement.

Vimeo

Announced on January 4, cutting 11% of its labor force.

Editor’s note: Natasha Mascarenhas has actually added to this collection.