The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and2023, this year has more than 130,000 job cuts across 457 companies, according to independent layoffs trackerLayoffs.fyi. Companies likeTesla,Amazon,Google,TikTok,SnapandMicrosofthave conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized startups have also seen a fair amount of cuts, and in some cases, haveshut down operations altogether. By tracking these layoffs, we’re able to understand the impact on innovation across companies large and small. We’re also able to see the potential impact of businesses embracing AI and automation for jobs that had previously been considered safe. It also serves as a reminder of the human impact of layoffs and what could be at stake in regards to increased innovation. Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of all the known layoffs in tech that have occurred in 2024, to be updated regularly. If you have a tip on a layoff, contact ushere. If you prefer to remain anonymous, you can contact ushere. Ceased operations andlaid off about 1,000 workers.But the company might be saved after all: Lilium announced that a consortium of investors agreed to acquire two subsidiaries, which would allow it to restructure and exit insolvency. Has laid off45 employees,accounting for 5% of its total workforce. A spokesperson told The Boston Globe the cuts impacted “nearly every function throughout the business.” Iscutting 22% of its workforceas it attempts to expand into new product lines. The total number of workers impacted is not currently known. Is undergoinganother layoff roundtwo months after the EV startup relocated employees to Texas to avoid bankruptcy. More than 20 employees were included in the cuts. Eliminated27% of its workforce. The cuts include 16% of its U.S.-based employees, as well asa “small team in India,”affecting a total of 74 workers. Laid off70 employees,roughly 13% of its workforce. The cuts impacted teams in engineering, customer experience, marketing, and billing. Laid off around25% of its cybersecurity team— known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned. The cuts impacted 40 to 50 employees out of a total staff of 200. Iscutting 100 employees, impacting its global workforce by roughly 18%. It’s the fintech company’s second layoff round in six months. Hasabruptly shut down.The news followsseveral lawsuits filed against the proptech companyand anFTC consumer alertabout controversial sale-leaseback models. Iseliminating 76 rolesin a reorganization effort. The cuts account for about 7% of the Singapore-based company’s total headcount. Is shutting down its operations, co-founders Kerry Schrader and Ashlee Ammons Halpinannounced. Reportedlylaid off 40%of its roughly 220-person workforce in a major restructuring effort following the departure of CEO Liza Landsman in September. Has laid off60 employeesin one of its B2B units as the company shifts its focus to AI. Will lay offroughly 200 employeesas part of a “strategic review” of its business while exploring a potential sale. The companycut 280 workersin April as part of a restructuring effort. Laid off150 employees,impacting 8% of its workforce, in a new restructuring effort following itsJuly 2024 acquisition of Tegus. Is reportedly letting go ofup to 500 employeesin an effort to boost its profitability. The cuts would impact more than 10% of its total workforce. Cutroughly 10% of its workforce,affecting 60-65 employees, as the online travel agency conducts another reorganization attempt. Eliminated 202 employees, accounting for roughly 1% of its total workforce. The cuts impacted engineering and customer support roles, spokespersonGreg Snapper confirmed to The Information. Iscutting 13% of its workforceand shifting its staff of clinical therapists to part-time or contract roles in an effort to “reset” the unicorn startup. It’s unknown exactly how many employees were impacted. Reportedly laid off roughly a quarter of its employees.Sources told City AMthat theformer unicorn startupcut 71 roles before announcing a $50 million funding round. Announced 120 layoffsin a new WARN filing.The filing comes a week after the advertising software company hit a$97.7 billion valuation. Hasshut down its operationsafter four years in business, CEO Raj Kunkolienkarannounced on LinkedIn. Is laying off4% of its workforceto focus on “large growth opportunities.” AMD hadroughly 26,000 employeesas of last year, so the cuts could impact approximately 1,000 workers. Is cutting40% of its workforce,impacting more than 200 employees, as part of a restructuring effort at the company. Since going public in 2021,23andMe has lost more than 99% of its valueamid declining interest in its products and subscriptions, plus a data breach in 2023 that resulted in 7 million users’ ancestry data being stolen. Is laying off319 employees,accounting for 21% of its total staff, as it struggles to compete with ChatGPT and other AI products. Like 23andMe, at the time of writing, Chegg has also lost 99% of its valuation since going public in 2013. Is laying offroughly 500 workers,affecting17% of the solar and EV charging company’s total workforce. Enphase laid off 10% of its workforce less than a year ago, as they and other solar companies continue to face significant headwinds. Isshutting downafter five years of operation. In 2020, the supersonic aircraft startup joinedY Combinator’s Winter cohortin 2020 and went on to raise over $4.5 million. Is laying off660 employees globally,accounting for 13% of the company’s total workforce, as the software-as-a-service company for customer and IT service management aims to finish a restructuring effort by the end of the year. The cloud computing company is eliminating2.5% of its workforce,impacting roughly 250 employees. The company made a similar sized cut to its workforceat the beginning of 2023. Announced it will cutnearly 200 jobsin North Carolina,shortly after its acquisition by Progress Software Corp. Is reducing its headcountby 300 employees,accounting for 2% of the food delivery company’s total work force. Is laying off105 employees— about 16% of the company’s workforce. The move comes after iRobot slashed roughly350 jobs earlier this year, following the scuttling of an acquisition by Amazon for $1.7 billion. Has laid off30% of its employeesas the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.” It’s the second layoff round at Mozilla this year. Reportedlycut 10% of its staff,impacting roughly 60 employees. In October 2024, the company announced a$125 million Series F Round. Isshutting down its operations.The agtech company was valued at$2.3 billion in 2021. Is conducting another round of layoffs, reportedly impactingup to 100 employees.CEO Jack Dorseytold employees in an email that the company needs to operate “like a startup again.” Reportedly conducteda round of layoffs.The number of employees impacted is currently unknown. Cut10% of its total workforceas the education company struggles with its customers not renewing their subscriptions. Is letting go of20% of its workforceas the company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a “transitional period.” The reduction in headcount will impact 528 employees. Has laid off20% of its total workforceas it faces struggles in the Ethereum market. Is trimming its global workforceby nearly 2%in a cost-cutting measure, impacting roughly 100 employees. Is pulling out of almost all of its major markets in the U.S. and has cut its workforceroughly in halfas it shifts its focus on just San Francisco and New York City. Is reducingits total workforce by 21%as the company aims to generate $60 million in annual cost savings. Willlay off 100 employeesafter being acquired by risk and vendor management company Ncontracts. Is laying off staff in a reorganization effortimpacting 22 employeesin the U.S. Cuts will reportedly also impact staffers in France in the coming months. Hasbeen shut down,founder Sheena Allenwrote on LinkedIn.The Y Combinator-backed fintech sought to bring financial services to people in banking deserts.Meta Employees across multiple teams across Meta have been laid off as the company looks to “ensure resources are aligned with their long-term strategic goals,”in the words of its emailed statement to TechCrunch. What Meta did not detail was the scope or specific teams affected by the layoffs, though Threads, recruiting and legal were confirmed not to be unaffected. Willcut 10% of its workforce,impacting roughly 17,000 employees. The cuts followa loss of $9.97 a share in Q3amid acontinued machinist union strike. Is laying off1,100 employees in Michigan,impacting the company’s subsidiary brands Chrysler, Jeep, Ram, and Dodge. Is laying offhundreds of employees,mainly in Malaysia, as the social network turns to AI for content moderation. The company said fewer than 500 people were affected. Iscutting jobs in Southeast Asia and Australiato “improve operational efficiency.” A spokesperson told TechCrunch that it hasn’t “set a target number for any particular positions,” though the cuts could impact roughly 10% of workers in those markets Is shutting down its UK office andlaying off dozens of workers,TechCrunch has learned. The cuts come just three months after the company started closing down its U.S. operations. Laid off four employees as the firm looks to “rebalance” its resources from its software and product teams to its investing team,general partner Pete Flint told TechCrunch. Islaying off 500 employeesas it begins winding down its operations. In a message to staff,CEO Cory Azzalino citedthe “ongoing challenges of the California cannabis market” as a reason for the closure. Eliminated1% of its total workforce,impacting roughly more than a dozen employees, as it reportedly pivots its business to connected-TV advertising. Has laid offnearly a third of its employeesin a “resetting” attempt for the company. It’sthe second layoff roundfor the AI startup in 2024. Has laid off9% of its total workforce,impacting most departments, as it aims for “long-term sustainability.” Is reducing its headcountby about 2%.It’s the second layoff round for Flexport this year, where the company cut20% of its staff in January. Let go of140 employeesacross all of its teams as it aims to reach profitability, CEO Mara Reiff announced in a blog post. Has cut17 employees in Singaporeas the company prepares for an IPO at the London Stock Exchange. The security compliance platform has laid off9% of its workforce,impacting 40 employees. Reportedly laid off upwards of50 employees, though Moov itself has not yet confirmed the layoffs. Eliminated16 jobs in sales, HR, and marketing,citing a significant downturn in the freight market. Is cutting25% of its global workforcein an effort to cut costs. The layoffs impact upwards of 1,600 employees at the battery giant. Isreducing its workforce by 9%,impacting roughly 50 employees, as it aims to fund future growth initiatives. Cut40 employeesacross its markets in the U.S., the UK, and Israel. The cuts come after the Israeli healthtech firmlaid off 70 employees in 2023. Reportedlyeliminated 40 roles.The Chicago-based music gear marketplace wasacquired by Etsy in 2019. Isreducing its staff by 30%as part of a new cost-cutting measure, CEO Austin Russell announced in a blog post. The cuts are largely made up of “non-technical” roles. Is eliminating65% of its workforce and consultantsand pausing a clinical trial of its cancer treatment as it aims to minimize expenses. Is cutting10% of its workforce,impacting roughly 40 employees. The company, however, said it will create 28 new roles as part of its new strategy. Has eliminated4% of its total workforceas it restructures its operations in Ontario. Will lay off226 workers in San Diegolater this year, according to a California WARN notice. The decision comes less than a year after the chipmaker let go ofmore than 1,250 workers. Will reduce its headcount in a new restructuring effort,impacting roughly 280 employees.The company says that half of those affected by the cuts would be rehired, particularly if they work in lower cost markets. Will lay off13% of its workforce.The company previouslylaid off 20 employeesearlier this year, in addition totwo other workforce reductions in 2023. Isreducing its headcount by 7%,impacting around 5,600 employees. The cuts follow another layoff round from the company this year, in which4,000 employees were impacted. Islaying off around 650 employeesin its gaming division. The layoffs come eight months after the gaming divisionfaced 1,900 job cutsafterMicrosoft acquired Activision Blizzard. Hasshut down its operationsciting a “tough funding environment,” co-founder Alexsandra Guerraannounced on LinkedIn. Will lay off75% of WeTransfer’s staff. Bending Spoons acquired the file transfer service in Julyfor an undisclosed amount. Is laying off18% of its 216-person staffas the company shifts its focus to its beauty and food brands and deprioritize other areas like wellness and travel. Has reportedly laid offaround 40 employeesin what appears to be a restructuring effort for the company. Is reportedlyshutting down its operationsfollowing alengthy litigation battlewith competitor Impossible Foods. Reportedly cut at least5% of its staffin its marketing and recruiting departments. Isreportedly cutting around 100 jobsin its digital services group, potentially impacting workers in the company’sBooks and News teams. Has laid off27 employeesacross the different departments, TechCrunch has learned. The cuts impact roughly 14% of the web browser and search startup’s total staff. Reportedly terminatedmore than 1,000 remote contract workers.The company did not categorize the cuts as layoffs and says full-time employees have not been impacted. Is cutting 100 workers in Canada and 700 working for its parent company, Just Eat Takeaway.com, CEO Paul Burnsannounced on LinkedIn. Willreduce its total workforce by about 15%before the end of the year as part of a major restructuring effort. The cuts will impact around 139 workers. Laid off 40% of its staff, CEO Adam Robinsonwrote on LinkedIn, impacting 15 employees. Isconducting layoffsas the company goes through a “strategic shift” in priorities. The number of employees affected is currently unknown. Iscutting 20% of its workforce,affecting around 80 employees. Inuitive CEO Shlomo Gadot is also stepping down from the company. Haslaid off a “small number” of employees,the company exclusively confirmed to TechCrunch. The 3D printing firm says the cuts occurred over the past two years and impact 40 employees out of its less than 750-person staff. CEO Patrick Spenceconfirmed with TechCrunch the company cut 100 employeesin a new layoff round, impacting 6% of Sonos’ workforce. Sonos previouslyreduced its headcount by 7%in 2023. Will reportedly eliminatethousands of jobsin another round of layoffs this year. The company previously laid off more than4,000 employeesin February 2024. Hasshut down its operations“after exploring all options” before running out of cash. The fintech previously helped users manage and pay off their credit card debt; it had 183 employees and was last valued at $855 million. Has laid offmore than 100 employees. Nova Launcher, which was acquired by Branch in 2022, said the cuts whittled down its teamto one full-time developer. Has reportedlystopped its operations. The company is now auctioning off equipment through theSilicon Valley Disposition. Is cuttingaround 100 employees,accounting for 11% of its total workforce. The online ticketing companypreviously let go of 8% of its employeesin February 2023. Announced it will reduce its global workforce by 15%and pause future hiring efforts in an effort to save $25 million. Is laying off 17% of its staffand ending its $80 million J.P. Morgan-backed programs at the end of this year following a rocky period for the company that has includedfinancial losses and leadership shakeups. Will completely shut down operationsafter facing financial struggles. The Kenya-based SUV manufacturerreportedly cited tax hikes as a driving force of the decision. Willcut 1,400 jobs globally,including hundreds of roles at its German plant. The company said it will also relocate an additional 1,400 employees to countries with lower labor costs. Has eliminatedaround 85 employees,affecting 10% of the video game developer and publisher’s total workforce. Willconduct layoffsas the company plans to get “leaner,” according to an internal memo, and create a new sales unit focused on AI products and services. The number of employees impacted is currently unknown. Intel kicked off the month with substantial layoffs, with 15,000 employees accounting for 15% of its total staff affected by the company’s cutbacks. “Our revenues have not grown as expected — and we’ve yet to fully benefit from powerful trends, like AI,”CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a memoannouncing the layoffs. The e-bike startup that has raised more than $300 million from investors has also conducted five rounds of layoffs since April 2021, withTechCrunch exclusively learning that Red Power’s most recent layoffswere conducted in July with an unknown number of Rad Power’s roughly 394 employees impacted. Has discontinuedlivestreaming services across its dating apps,specifically Plenty of Fish and BLK, as it shifts its focus to generative AI. The move will result in a 6% reduction in its total workforce. Will cut220 employees,representing around 17% of the game studio’s total workforce.CEO Pete Parsons saidthe changes impact all levels of the company, including senior and executive leadership. Has reportedly eliminated roles fornearly 200 U.S. writersa month after the companypartnered with ElevenLabsto quickly convert scripts into audio content using AI. Has reportedly laid offmore than 200 employeesacross several departments. It would be the agritech company’s third substantial layoff round in the past year. Announced it willeliminate roughly 8% of its workforceas the company works toward its “next phase of growth.” Is reportedly laying offabout 20 employees, accounting for nearly 5% of its total workforce. The cuts came the day after the companyannounced it raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation. Reportedlyeliminated around 75 of its workers.As part of the cuts, the augmented reality startup reportedly axed its sales and marketing departments entirely. Is reportedly laying offnearly half of its employeesin the U.S. as the Japan-based company struggles to compete with other e-commerce rivals like Temu. Is eliminating50 employees, accounting for 10% of its total workforce. Earlier this year,the cybersecurity company raised $60 millionat a $1 billion valuation, making it aunicorn. Is reportedly laying off10% of its 165-person workforce. The company develops cyber intelligence software that helps prevent online fraud. Has laid offthe majority of its roughly eight-person staffas the LGBTQ+ social networking site struggles to monetize its product. Last year, the company’s third,Lex raised $5.6 million in seed fundingand elevated co-founder Jennifer Lewis from COO to CEO. Cut “less than” 15% of its 250- to 300-person workforce as part of a necessary reshuffling following a$133 million Series C funding round,TechCrunch has learned. Will lay offdozens of employeesand leave the U.S. market completely following a U.S. government order thatbanned the sale of the company’s softwaredue to security risks. Eliminatedabout 300 employeesin its workforce as it rolls out a broader effort to cut costs and streamline its operations. Will cut 1,800 employees, impacting 10% of its workforce. The company says more than half were cut due to low performance and aims to hire approximately the same number of employees instead of cutting costs. Plansto cut 420 jobs,10% of its total workforce, as the company undergoes a large restructuring effort. Cut anestimated 2,200 employees,amounting to nearly 14% of its workforce, as the software company attempts to redirect its resources into “key areas of product innovation.” Plansto cut roughly 1,200 jobs,amounting to almost 2% of its total workforce, as the information management company plans to significantly reduce its expenses by 2025. Is laying off about 250 employeesin the latest in a series of job cuts after schools reopened across India following pandemic lockdowns. Is ceasing its operationsafter its last-resort acquisition talks with Dailyhunt collapsed. Has cut its workforce by 26 people, CEO Uma Valeti wrote in an email to staff, as the lab-grown meat industry sees a decline in VC funding. Is eliminating 20 employees, amounting to a third of its total workforce, as the company shifts its focus to software development. Will cutapproximately 4% of its workforceas part of a plan to boost growth, though the company is also one of many within its fieldfacing a consolidated lawsuit alleging they engaged in price fixing. Intends to lay off roughly 180 employees, amounting to 17% of its workforce, according to an SEC filing that amounts toits second recent round of layoffs. Is laying off more than 100 employees, according to a WARN filing. The news of the cuts comes after the company launched a large office expansion in Richmond, California. Is reportedly conducting layoffs in Israelas it goes through a global restructuring. Is reportedly cuttinga large number of its staffafter beingacquired by French gaming company Voodoo. Has laid off about 30 people, accounting for 3% of its workforce, as it refocuses its business to enterprise. Terminated 158 employees,with another batch of layoffs expected to come as the company aims to reduce its workforce by 25%. Is making cuts to10% of its workforce,impacting around 20 to 25 employees. Is laying off375 employees,accounting for 5% of its total workforce. Will eliminateup to 85 employeesbased in Ireland, the company announced. Is reportedlylaying off around 30 employeesin Israel and will move positions to other regions to cut costs. Cut16 employeesin its supplier resource management department as it focuses on automation. Is reducingits global headcount by 23%in a major restructuring effort as the online learning platform aims to become a “leaner” operation. Isclosing up shopand liquidating its assets. The number of employees affected is currently unknown. Isreducing its headcount by 15%as the company attempts to “think in longer time frames,” the company announced in a blog post. Is making more cuts, co-CEO Carey Anne Nadeauannounced on LinkedIn. The number of employees impacted is currently unknown. Will lay offits 143 employeesby July 3 due to a “funding loss,” and will no longer be accepting new orders. The company has not shut down fully though, telling TechCrunch: “We are actively exploring options for the brand but do not have anything definitive to communicate at this time.” Shut down its operations andlaid off its remaining employeesafter raising more than $50 million since its 2017 start. Is laying off70 employees,about 30% of its workforce, three weeks after an earlier round of cuts impacted 34 employees. Is slashingaround 450 jobsat its Indonesian e-commerce division, accounting for 9% of the unit. Has eliminated around30% of its total workforce, CEO Graham Gaylor confirmed in a statement. Is reportedlyconducting large cutsacross the company. The total number of employees impacted is currently unknown. Has cutaround 45 jobsas part of a restructuring effort. Has laid off at least1,060 employeestwo weeks after the startupfiled for administration. Is laying offits 1,000+ staff driversas it embraces a gig worker model similar to that of Lyft and Uber. Hascut 30 employeesa month after the Bengaluru-based startup laid off 160 people. Has confirmedlayoffs of 150 jobsas it drastically scales back its expansion ambitions to focus on its markets in Norway and Sweden. Islaying off 100 workers,or 20% of its staff, in another round of cuts. Is reportedly laying off10% of its workforce,amounting to around 30 people. Is reportedlycutting hundreds of employeesworking in its Azure cloud business, though the exact number of employees impacted is currently unknown. Is laying off100 employeesmonths after reducing its headcount by 50 workers. Is reportedlymaking large cuts globallyacross several of its Cloud teams, including teams focused on sustainability, consulting and partner engineering. Is eliminating 40 employees as part of a restructuring effort, CEO David Campbell wrotein a post on LinkedIn. Isshutting down its operationsafter laying off 60% of its staff in March in an attempt to stay afloat. Has laid off asubstantial part of its workforce, TechCrunch learned. Engineering and product design departments were most impacted by the cuts at the cancer care platform startup. Is laying off37 tech workers at FlightStats, the flight tracking startup it acquired in 2016, as it plans to consolidate its operations in India and the U.K. Iscutting 15 employeesin a round of layoffs, impacting 20% of the Israeli startup’s total workforce. Has laid offhundreds of employeesin a bid to keepthe EV startup alive. One current and one laid off employee told TechCrunch exclusively that an estimated 150 people remain at the company. Isshutting down its operationsand laying off the rest of its staff. The COVID-19 test company laid off half of its workforce earlier this month to cut costs. Haslet go of 105 employeesas the company seeks to “streamline” its operations, according to an email to staffers from current CEO Gary Little. Is laying offabout 400 employees, roughly 6% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring ahead of the launch of its first electric SUV later this year. Willreportedly make large cutsto its global operations and marketing teams. The amount of employees impacted is currently unknown. Will reportedly cut14% of its staff, impacting 175 employees, as the company shifts its focus from original Disney+ programming back to films. Let go of20% of its staffas the coding startup shifts its focus to enterprise sales. Cutabout 30% of its total workforce. The recruiting startup that uses AI to find candidates was last valued at over$1.2 billion in January 2022. Eliminated6% of its staffin another round of layoffs as the fast-delivery startup attempts to become cash-flow positive by the end of 2024. Plans to lay off106 employees, according to a WARN notice filed in Texas. Hasshut down its operations. The number of employees affected is currently unknown. Is cutting roughly 1,000 jobs, impacting 8% of the company’s headcount,CEO Chris Hyams wrote in a letter to staff. Cut around 40% of its workforce, impacting about 550 employees,sources told TechCrunch. The company’s chief operating officer, Abe Ghabra, has also left the company. Will eliminate57 positions in San Francisco, according to a WARN notice filed in California. Iseliminating 800 employees, accounting for 13% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring effort. Told The Verge it haslaid off most of its staffand is no longer selling its smart home controllers and light switches as it looks for a buyer. Laid offroughly 170 workers, impacting a third of its total headcount, in an effort to cut back on annual operating costs. Closed Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and more game studios as part ofcuts at Bethesda. It’s currently unclear how many employees will be impacted. Is eliminating 230 employees, about 49% of its workforce, in a cost cutting measure laid out indocuments filed with the U.S. SEC. Isslashing its workforce by 20%. The cuts will affect around 140 employees, and the company is also cutting ties with “the majority” of its contract workers. Haslaid off about 3% of its workforce, impacting 116 people, the company confirmed to TechCrunch in a statement. The cuts come over a year after the companyeliminated about 4% of its headcount. Is laying off 15% of its workforce, affecting about 400 people, as part of a cost-cutting effort. The company’s CEO Barry McCarthy is also stepping down. Has gutted its charging team in a new round of layoffs, CEO Elon Musk announced in an overnight email to executives. Has laid off staff across key teams like Flutter, Dart and Python. It is currently unclear how many employees were let go. Is laying off more employees to “preserve cash,”according to an internal email viewed by TechCrunch. The number of cuts is currently unknown. Is shutting down operations in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe,impacting at least 6,000 jobs across the closing markets. Is cutting about 180 jobsin a profitability push and has let go its chief executive Hemant Bakshi, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The space and defense startup laid off nearly 30 people, accounting for about 25% of its workforce, due to “duplication of roles and functions across the company,”TechCrunch exclusively reported. Is expected tocut employees in its Austin officefor the second time this year. Plans to eliminate 740 employeesat its Oregon headquarters this summer, according to a WARN Act notice. Is eliminating 10% of its workforcefollowing the exit of former CEO Emad Mostaque. Is laying off workers as part of continued cost cutting measures. The number of employees affected was at the time unknown. Is reducing its total workforce by 1%. It’s thesecond round of layoffsfor the EV maker this year. Is laying off 5% of its workforce, affecting around 579 employees. The GTA 6 publisher also announced the elimination of “several projects” in development. Is eliminating about 20% of its 59 employeesin a restructuring effort. Is cutting “more than 10%” of its global workforce, per an internal email sent by CEO Elon Musk. That could impact more than 14,000 workers worldwide, as Tesla prepares itself “for our next phase of growth” amid a challenging EV market. Is reducing its global workforce by nearly 4%,impacting up to 140 employees. Islaying off 250 employeesbased in Ireland as it restructures its Training and Quality team. Cut approximately 10% of its workforce,TechCrunch exclusively learned, as the company prepares for an IPO and aims to reach profitability. Has laid off 382 employees, amounting to 32% of its total workforce,TechCrunch exclusively learned. The background-screening platform was last valued at $5 billion in April of 2022. Reportedly laid off a sizable part of its staff in a restructuring effort. The number of employees impacted is currently unknown, butsources told Inc42that it could be “in the range of 70-100” workers. Is laying off614 employeesin California afterabandoning its electric car project, according toa WARN notice. Has laid offa “small number” of employeesas part of a company-wide focus on commercialization efforts. Shut down operations. The company, which was backed by OpenAI, employedabout 100 people. Isshutting down Yummly, the recipe and cooking app it acquired in 2017. Willcut hundreds of jobsacross Sales, Marketing, Global Services and its Physical Stores Technology team. Is laying offabout 500 employees, accounting for 3% of its total workforce, as part of a restructuring effort. Reliance, largest conglomerate in India,took its time in announcing it had laid off more than 42,000 people in its fiscal year,which ended in March. That significant number accounted for 11% of its workforce, and another 143,000 employees took “voluntary separations” in the same time. Has laid off20% of its staffafter acquiring point-of-sale platform Cuboh. The company previouslylaid off 100 peoplein 2022. Is restructuring its testing department, which is largely made up of contractors. ANintendo spokesperson told Kotakuthe changes will end some assignments but will lead to the creation of new full-time positions. Cut its global workforce byabout 6,000 jobs, according to a10-K SEC filing. The filing reveals the company cut13,000 jobs in the last year. Has made cuts to its staff,the company confirmed to TechCrunch. A report in Fintech Business Weekly estimates that 17 people, or about 15% of the company, were impacted. Is cutting 195 roles in an effort to become more sustainable, CEO Henry Chanwrote in a blog post. The layoffs impact nearly a quarter of its staff. Reportedlyeliminated 20% of its total workforcein its second restructuring effort in the past year. Conducted another round of layoffs impacting 20 employees, CEO Ham Serunjogiannounced in a blog post. Has reportedlycut 16% of its staffin a strategic move to support its Textio Lift product. Is reportedly laying offaround 25% of its workforce. According to Axios, the cuts affect roughly 80 people. Isshutting down after failing to secure new funding, TechCrunch has learned. The remote driving startup, which had cut staff last year, employed a little more than 100 people. Isreportedly slashingits marketing and communications staff. The company previously announced a strategy to replaceupwards of 8,000 jobswith AI. Cut just under 40% of its staff, equating to dozens of employees,the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Laid off around 15 people earlier this year, following comments from CEO Chris Caren that the company would be able to reduce 20% of its headcount thanks to AI. Laid off 13% of its staff based in its New York office as the web3 fantasy sports platform focuses on its Paris headquarters,a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Is eliminating roughly 7% of its workforce as part of organizational restructuring. Thefintech unicornlast conducted layoffs in August 2022. Is cuttingabout 13% of its workforce, affecting 40 employees. It’s thesecond round of layoffsfor the battery startup in recent months. Is shutting down,resulting in a “permanent mass layoff”impacting around 150 employees. Plans to lay off15% of its workforceand says it likely does not have enough cash on hand to survive the next 12 months. Cut5% of its workforce, impacting 670 employees, as it moves away from the“development of future licensed IP.” Is letting go of about 350 employees, accounting for 30% of its workforce. Is likelycutting hundreds of employeeswho worked on the company’s autonomous electric car project now that the effort has stopped, TechCrunch has learned. Is laying off900 employeesfrom its PlayStation unit, affecting 8% of the division’s workforce. Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla and Firesprite studioswill also be impacted. Willreportedly cut 1,500 roles in 2024, primarily in its Product & Technology division, accounting for more than 8% of the company’s workforce. Eliminated roughly60 employees, or 17% of its workforce. It’s the financial startup’s third major layoff round in the past 12 months. Is laying off10% of its salaried workforcein a bid to cut costs in an increasingly tough market for EVs. Will lay off 13% of its workforce as it works to “build a financially sustainable business,”CEO Phil Graves told TechCrunch exclusively. Announced it will eliminate 5% of its employees, impactingmore than 4,000 people. Will lay offabout 550 workersin a move designed to promote “operating expense efficiency.” Announced in an SEC filing that it willlay off roughly 250 employeesas part of a restructuring effort. Is scaling back its investment in a number of products, TechCrunch has learned, resulting inlayoffs that will affect roughly 60 employees. Is laying off230 employees worldwideas part of the company’s efforts to advance its focus on“the AI-enabled workplace of the future.” Is cutting30% of its North American workforceas part of a restructuring. Is reportedlycutting jobsin its healthcare businesses One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy. The number of impacted roles is currently unknown. Announced plans to eliminate6% of its workforce, largely impacting the company’s sales and marketing divisions. Announced plansto cut 10% of its workforce, impacting roughly 500-plus employees, in an effort to “reduce hierarchy.” Haslaid off 60 employees, or about 19% of its staff, CEO Marc Boiron announcedin a blog post. Islaying off approximately 400 employees. The layoffs come almost exactly a year to the day after Okta announced plans to cut about 300 employees. Will lay off95 workersin New York City, according to a filing with the New York Department of Labor. Is laying off about6% of its global workforce, or 280 employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Conductedanother round of layoffsearlier this month, amounting to roughly 15% of its workforce, a source familiar with the situation told TechCrunch. Is reportedlylaying off around 1,000 peoplein the Cash App, foundational and Square arms of Block. Hasreportedly begun company-wide layoffs. While it is unclear how many people will be affected, one source told TechCrunch it was expected to be in the “thousands.” Haslaid off 20% of its staffof about 1,000 people, TechCrunch exclusively learned. The cuts to the software startup come despite record growth in the solar industry last year. Islaying off 350 people, or one-third of its headcount, after Amazon’s bid to acquire the Roomba-maker shuttered. Longtime CEO Colin Angle has also stepped down. Isreportedly laying off 700 workers, or around 1% of its staff. This comes after the company hada significant reduction of 10% of its workforcein 2023. Is reportedlyplanning to cut around 20% of its staffin the next few weeks. The company announced similar cuts in October, when founder Ryan Petersen returned as CEO andslashed its workforce by 20%. Islaying off 1,900 employeesacross its gaming divisions following its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Blizzard president Mike Ybarra announced he will also be stepping down. Iscutting about 400 jobs, 7% of its workforce, as the food delivery startup seeks to bring further improvements to its finances ahead of a planned IPO later this year. Laid off dozens of workers, according to sources familiar with the decision. The autonomous vehicle technology company has since confirmed that about 3% of its workforce has been laid off. Willlay off 9% of the company’s workforce, affecting about 1,000 full-time employees. Ina blog post, the company also plans to cut contract roles in the coming months. Announced it intends to offervoluntary buyouts or job changesto 8,000 employees amid restructuring. Laid off 20% of its staff, affecting 282 workers. Ina blog post, Co-CEO Pedro Franceschi said that the company is prioritizing “long-term thinking and ownership over short-term gains in our comp structure.” Eliminatedaround 60 jobsacross the U.S. inLos Angeles, New York, and Austinin addition to layoffs in international markets. The affected roles, according to NPR’s initial reporting, are largely in sales and advertising. Iscutting 90% of its employeesas it shuts down its online used car marketplace and shifts resources into two business units: one focused on auto financing and the other on AI-powered analytics. Islaying off 11% of its workforce, affecting about 530 employees, as the company focuses on “fewer, high-impact projects.” The League of Legends maker is alsosunsetting its five-year-old publishing group, Riot Forge. Iseliminating 13% of its global workforce, affecting 1,650 employees, in a restructuring effort aimed at cutting layers of management. Willeliminate 100 employees, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch, as part of a restructuring effort in its creator management and operations teams. Is laying off“hundreds” of employeesin its advertising sales team, according to a leaked memo. The cuts come a week after the companydid sweeping layoffsacross its hardware teams. And more layoffs will come throughout the year,as CEO Sundar Pichai told the company in a memo obtained by the Verge. Reportedly laid offa “sizable” number of employeesJanuary 12. The game developer studio was acquired by Borderlands maker Gearbox in 2022. Is going to lay off employees in 2024,TechCrunch exclusively learned, with the total impacted employees potentially reaching as high as 20% of the animation studio’s 1,300 person workforce. The cutbacks come as Disney looks to reduce the studio’s output as it struggles to achieve profitability in streaming. Is laying off5% of its workforce, citing an “increasingly challenging landscape,” according toa leaked memoobtained by Business Insider. Is laying off17% of its staff, impacting 170 people. In an internal memoobtained by the Verge, Discord CEO Jason Citron blamed the cuts on the company growing too quickly. Laid offhundreds of employeesacross its Google Assistant division and the team that manages Pixel, Nest and Fitbit hardware. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are also exiting. Is laying off“several hundreds” of employeesat Prime Video and MGM Studios, according to a memo obtained by TechCrunch. The cuts come days after the500 layoffs at Amazon’s Twitch. Is reportedly laying off 500 employees, 35% of its current staff, amid a continued struggle to achieve profitability in the face of rising costs and community backlash. The pending layoffs come after hundreds more employees were laid off in 2023. Confirmed to TechCunch that layoffs, conducted in December, had impacted 14 employees, accounting for 60% to 70% of the company, according to multiple sources. Confirmed itcut 10% of its contractor workforceat the end of 2023 as it turns to AI to streamline content production and translations previously handled by humans. Will cutabout 10% of corporate rolesas it goes through a restructuring plan following Anushka Salinas’ planned resignation as operating chief and president at the end of January. Isreducing its workforce by about 25%, or 1,800 people. The video game engine maker went throughthree rounds of layoffsin 2023. Laid offtwo-thirdsof its employees as the German startup, which built collaborative presentation software, looks to pursue a “completely different path.” CEO and co-founderChristian Reberalso stepped down. The AI and biomedical startup reportedly cut17% of its workforceJanuary 8, citing“shifts in the economic environment,”in a LinkedIn post announcing the layoffs. Eliminated38% of its staffJanuary 8 as the online retail logistics company follows up after conducting layoffs in September 2023. Announced January 8 it is laying off28% of its staff, or 154 workers, as the small modular nuclear reactor company shifts its focus to “key strategic areas.” Is reportedly laying off15% of its workforcefocused on computer vision for retailers. Isshutting downat the end of 2024 after a 12 year run. The design collaboration startup was oncevalued at nearly $2B. Is laying offnearly 20% of its workforceas it tries to maintain its battle with Nielsen over media measurement. CEO Ross McCraystepped downfrom the company. Is laying offroughly 15% of its staff, totaling 60 employees. The Israel-based unicorn reportedly plans to move some impacted employees into other positions at the company. Laid off its entire 200-person workforce January 2 after attempts to raise more capital failed,TechCrunch exclusively learned. The mass layoff comes just seven months after the startupacquired rival Zencity.
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