2024 Layoffs Tracker. — that’s how many employees lost their jobs in major u.s. — in the past 2.5 years, over half a million tech professionals have lost their jobs worldwide, according to layoffs.fyi, a tracker of industry layoffs.debarghya das, a former google engineer and tech influencer, highlights that this staggering figure includes 132,000 layoffs in the first eight months of 2024 alone, with major companies like cisco and intel.
Layoffs last year, according to forbes’ layoff tracker, which included layoffs affecting 100 or more jobs. Wayfair ceo niraj shah informed his workers on friday that the online furniture retailer is eliminating 1,650 positions, despite things “going well” at the.