October 15, 2025 - [LIVE] Tracking all tech startup layoffs — and lists of employees laid off — since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. This page is constantly being updated.

2 days ago - We don’t make these decisions lightly, and we’re committed to supporting affected employees through their transitions.” According to the report, CEO Andy Jassy has eliminated tens of thousands of corporate roles in addition to a variety of moonshot projects since succeeding founder Jeff Bezos in 2021. Though Jassy insisted that Amazon’s mandate for corporate workers to report to the office five days a week this year was about reinforcing the company’s culture, the move was reportedly seen by many employees to force resignations without going through the expense of layoffs.

5 days ago - Synopsys, a large tech company, will lay off about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 2,000 employees, as the chip-design software maker looks to redirect investment toward growth opportunities. The company, which provides services to the semiconductor industry, appears to have signaled over 2,000 layoffs, according to a recently filed SEC document.

1 month ago - After a soft patch earlier this year, job growth for lower-wage workers (those earning less than $55,000 annually) has rebounded, supported by stronger hiring and stable layoff rates.

November 17, 2025 - (Pandemic-related job losses in retail trade mostly occurred in April 2020.) During the next two holiday seasons (2020–2022), holiday hiring remained steady, with retailers hiring 634,000 and 602,000 seasonal employees in 2020 and 2021, ...

2 weeks ago - Layoffs in professional, scientific, and technical services industry.

November 12, 2025 - Glassdoor reviewed Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data from 2015 to August 2025. After a layoff spike in spring 2020 and historically low layoff levels in 2021 and 2022, the number of full-time workers ...

April 24, 2025 - The percentage of large newspapers and digital news sites that experienced layoffs fell considerably in 2021 when compared with the year prior, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis, which examined online news stories about layoffs at outlets in both of these categories.

September 4, 2025 - It was reported that 28% of Americans had been laid off in the past two years. 11. The highest number of employees laid off in 2022 was from the retail industry, while in 2021, the highest number of employees laid off was from the consumer industry.

August 10, 2022 - 2021 saw a historic surge in workers voluntarily leaving their jobs as the quits rate reached ever higher peaks. ... Today’s federal Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report suggests that the latest wave of the pandemic brought ...

May 6, 2021 - According to Challenger tracking, not only are job cut plans lower, but hiring announcements have also fallen from pandemic highs. Through April 2021, employers have announced plans to add 392,578 jobs, a 68% decrease from the 1,221,680 announced ...

December 10, 2024 - Aside from a recession-related ... a record high of 2.4% in 2020 from pandemic-related layoffs before falling to a record low 0.9% in 2021 ......

October 28, 2025 - Amidst industry-wide cost-cutting ... for the layoffs. Spotify, the Swedish music streaming giant, is cutting 17% of its workforce, amounting to about 1,500 jobs, as part of a cost-reduction strategy.

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1 week ago - Large tech employers such as Salesforce and Google parent Alphabet noted that their post-pandemic layoffs followed several years of rapid hiring fueled by fast growth — between 2019 and 2022, some companies nearly doubled their employee headcount. Some large tech companies also cited slowing sales and fears of a recession as reasons for downsizing. Venture-backed startups, meanwhile, also cut jobs as a way to cut costs and preserve their cash reserves, as venture funding fell significantly after the peak in 2021.

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Job openings reached a series high in December 2021 of 11.4 million, and quits reached a series high in November of 4.5 million. By contrast, layoffs and discharges trended lower throughout 2021, reaching a series low of 1.3 million in December.

September 11, 2025 - The Department of Labor reported Thursday that claims for the week ending Sept. 6 were up 27,000 from the previous week's revised level, a major jump that signals layoffs are on the rise.