Tech layoffs

Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week, sources say

It would be the largest layoff in Amazon’s three-decade history

Autodesk makes industrial design and operation software for industries such as architecture and construction.

Autodesk to cut about 7% of staff amid sales reorganisation push

Most of the reductions will be related to sales functions, the company says

Meta will continue to develop the metaverse, but with a focus on mobile phones instead of the fully immersive VR headsets that the company initially imagined.

Meta begins job cuts as it shifts from metaverse to AI devices

Reality Labs houses the company’s hardware and other futuristic product efforts

The layoffs reflect an adjustment to AI adoption and other economic shifts.

From Amazon to Microsoft, AI is driving thousands of job cuts worldwide

Global banks alone will let go of as many as 200,000 employees in the next three to five years

HP laid off an additional 1,000 to 2,000 employees in February, as part of a previously announced restructuring plan.

HP to cut about 6,000 jobs by 2028, ramps up AI efforts

HP SAID on Tuesday it expects to cut between 4,000 and 6,000 jobs globally by fiscal 2028 as part of a plan to streamline operations and adopt artificial intelligence to speed up product development, ...

Some US workers may be affected by the job reductions, but employment in the country is anticipated to remain roughly the same year over year, IBM says..

IBM to cut thousands of jobs in fourth quarter amid software focus

The company employs about 270,000 workers as at the end of 2024

Baidu and Alibaba Group Holding have seen their headcounts fall for three consecutive years.

AI hiring thaw helps relieve tech talent glut in China

This hyper-competitive environment for graduates is playing out against a backdrop of a broader structural shift in the industry’s labour market

The company is on the hook for tens of billions of US dollars to build out increasingly large server farms to meet demand.

Oracle cuts cloud division jobs amid surge in AI spending

Many tech giants have sought to deal with the surging costs of artificial intelligence by reducing expenses in other parts of the business

Alibaba’s reduction has been more pronounced, with its full-time employee count falling by more than 50%, from 254,941 in March 2022 to 124,320 in March 2025.

China’s tech giants spook a generation of workers with job cuts

The industry turmoil has hit mid-career professionals, particularly those over 35, the hardest