New Delhi: The year 2023 began on a bad note for tech workers globally with 91 companies laying off over 24,000 tech workers in the first 15 days of this month, indicating worse things to come. Around 24,151 tech workers, dominated by companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, Coinbase and others, lost their jobs, according to layoffs tracking website Layoffs.fyi.Crypto lending exchange Crypto.com announced last week that the company was expanding its global workforce. Will reduce the number of about 20 percent. percentage amid ongoing economic headwinds and unexpected industry events.
In India, companies like Ola (which laid off 200 employees), voice automated startup Skit.ai made headlines in January. In December last year, over 17,000 technical workers were shown the door.
153,110 workers are set to be let go in 2022, led by companies such as Meta, Twitter, Oracle, Nvidia, Snap, Uber, Spotify, Intel and Salesforce, according to a website tracking job losses since the start of the pandemic. The number of layoffs hit its lowest level in November, with 51,489 tech workers losing their jobs. Google is another big tech company which is expected to take drastic measures to reduce its workforce in early 2023.