The team at RationalFX aggregated layoff announcements sourced from U.S. WARN notices, the job portal TrueUp, TechCrunch and the Layoffs.fyi layoff tracker for the entirety of 2024. We also looked into the latest layoffs since the beginning of January 2025, focusing on companies in the technology sector.

Numbers show that 280,991 employees in technology companies were laid off last year, with another 26,215 let go since January.

Since January 2025, U.S.-based tech companies have slashed another 18,168 jobs. Globally, at least 26,215 employees in the technology sector have lost their jobs.

These are the 10 companies with the largest layoffs so far in 2025:

• Meta (Menlo Park, CA, U.S.) – 3,600 laid-off employees
• STMicro (Geneva, Switzerland) – 3,000 laid-off employees
• Microsoft (Redmond, WA, U.S.), 2,280 laid-off employees
• Amazon (Seattle, WA, U.S.) – 2,100 laid-off employees
• Workday (Pleasanton, CA, U.S.) – 1,750 laid-off employees
• Cruise (San Francisco, CА, U.S.) – 1,050 laid-off employees
• Salesforce (San Francisco, CA, U.S.) – 1,000 laid-off employees
• eFishery (Bandung, Indonesia) – 1,000 laid-off employees
• Blue Origin (Kent, WA, U.S.) – 1,000 laid-off employees
• Wayfair (Boston, MA, U.S.) – 730 laid-off employees

Further details about the layoffs in the tech sector and the reasons for job reductions, as well as the complete methodology behind our research, are available in the full report. Feel free to use any data or graphics, but please ensure proper attribution by including a link to the original work.