Amazon Leads Weekly Tech Layoffs Tally As Samsung And Disney Make A Return To The Tracker
The warmth is on for U.S.-based tech staff, as layoffs proceed to pile up. Whereas the West Coast is house to nearly all of corporations that reported reductions in pressure this week, tech staff in cities throughout the nation are additionally making ready for a job hunt.
Main the week’s tally is Seattle-based Amazon, which rejoins the tracker this week with a report that it’ll start shedding staff in its Port St. Lucie, Florida, facility in September. The deliberate layoffs are in response to the upcoming shutdown and renovation to that location, anticipated to take two years. In April, Newsweek reported that 616 staff primarily based in Amazon’s Homestead, Florida, warehouse have been to be laid off throughout renovations to that web site.
Seoul, South Korea-based client electronics firm Samsung Electronics, which has reported job cuts in reference to its plan to maneuver the headquarters of its New Jersey-based subsidiary, Samsung Electronics America, to Texas. Because of this, along with the 739 staff from the New Jersey location (reported on the layoffs tracker final week), 100 staff within the firm’s Plano, Texas, workplace will likely be let go, based on a report in CNBC.
Leisure and media conglomerate The Walt Disney Co. stories it has laid off staff throughout its Pixar Animation Studios, ESPN, Disney Leisure Tv and Disney Studios divisions. Whereas the whole depend of affected workers isn’t clear, based on a report in TheWrap, Pixar is alleged to be taking the brunt of the layoffs, with 116 staff being let go.
New additions
The next corporations have been added to the tracker this week:
Tech Layoffs: US Firms That Minimize Jobs 2022-2026
By the numbers
Layoffs through the weeks ended July 22, 2026: Not less than 1,124 U.S. tech sector workers have been laid off or scheduled for layoffs, per a Crunchbase Information tally.
In 2025: Round 127,000 staff have been let go from U.S.-based tech corporations based on our tally.
In 2024: Not less than 95,667 staff at U.S.-based tech corporations misplaced their jobs in 2024, based on a Crunchbase Information tally.
In 2023: Greater than 191,000 staff in U.S.-based tech corporations (or tech corporations with a big U.S. workforce) have been laid off in mass job cuts.
In 2022: Greater than 93,000 jobs have been slashed from private and non-private tech corporations within the U.S.
Firms with the most important workforce reductions in 2025
Methodology
This tracker consists of layoffs carried out by U.S.-based corporations or these with a robust U.S. presence and is up to date a minimum of bi-weekly. We’ve included each startups and publicly traded, tech-heavy corporations. We’ve additionally included corporations primarily based elsewhere which have a large crew in the USA, resembling Klarna, even when it’s unclear how a lot of the U.S. workforce has been affected by layoffs.
Layoff and workforce figures are finest estimates primarily based on reporting. We supply the layoffs from media stories, our personal reporting, social media posts and layoffs.fyi, a crowdsourced database of tech layoffs.
We just lately up to date our layoffs tracker to mirror the latest spherical of layoffs every firm has carried out. This permits us to rapidly and extra precisely monitor layoff tendencies, which is why you may discover some modifications in our most up-to-date numbers.
If an worker headcount can’t be confirmed to our requirements, we be aware it as “unclear.”
Often Requested Questions
What’s a layoff?
A layoff could be both a everlasting termination of somebody’s employment — often for cost-saving causes — or a short lived one as a result of there’s not sufficient work to justify a full workforce. Tech firm layoffs usually fall into the everlasting class.
A mass layoff is when a big variety of an organization’s workers are minimize in a brief time frame, usually on account of financial situations.
Why are tech corporations doing layoffs?
Tech layoffs began to surge in 2022 and continued in 2023 and 2024. Firms have given numerous causes for conducting layoffs.
Some corporations — particularly these within the e-commerce sector — practically doubled their worker headcount to fulfill client demand through the COVID-19 pandemic’s stay-at-home mandates, and later discovered that they have been overstaffed as every day life returned to regular.
Giant tech employers resembling Salesforce and Google father or mother Alphabet famous that their post-pandemic layoffs adopted a number of years of speedy hiring fueled by quick progress — between 2019 and 2022, some corporations practically doubled their worker headcount. Some giant tech corporations additionally cited slowing gross sales and fears of a recession as causes for downsizing.
Enterprise-backed startups, in the meantime, additionally minimize jobs as a strategy to minimize prices and protect their money reserves, as enterprise funding fell considerably after the height in 2021. Some startups that ran out of money and couldn’t elevate new funding discovered themselves submitting for chapter or shutting down.
What have been the most important tech layoffs of 2024?
Intel Corp. laid off the most important variety of folks amongst U.S. tech employers in 2024, by our depend. The semiconductor large laid off greater than 15,000 workers final 12 months.
It was adopted intently by electric-car maker Tesla, which minimize greater than 14,000 roles, and networking firm Cisco, with greater than 10,000 complete roles minimize.
In 2023, Amazon layoffs led the numbers with 16,000 roles minimize. Layoffs at Alphabet, the father or mother firm of Google, totaled about 12,000, and Microsoft’s layoffs totaled about 10,000 staff in 2023, as did Fb father or mother Meta’s layoffs.
Many venture-backed tech startups have additionally completed layoffs as enterprise capital funding has fallen sharply for the reason that peak in 2021, and falling startup valuations issue into their selections to conduct layoffs.
Are extra tech layoffs coming?
Sure, extra layoffs are possible coming. Whereas there are indicators that the amount of layoffs is tapering, specialists we talked to count on job cuts within the tech sector to proceed for the foreseeable future as giant tech corporations and startups proceed to battle financial headwinds.
Seed and early-stage startups specifically could proceed to conduct layoffs in an try to increase their money runways in a tough enterprise funding setting.
Tech layoffs noticeably elevated in the beginning of 2022, ramped up in 2023, waned considerably in 2024 and have continued in 2025.
What are indicators that an organization is planning layoffs?
Indicators which will point out an organization is extra more likely to conduct layoffs embody:
A hiring, payroll or promotion freeze: Payroll is essentially the most important price for many know-how corporations and sometimes the primary place firm leaders will try to include prices. Firms could do that by pausing hiring for all however essentially the most mission-critical roles and by freezing promotions and pay raises for current workers.
Pink flags within the firm’s monetary efficiency: An organization that’s battling declining income or revenue — or just not rising on the charge anticipated — is extra more likely to conduct layoffs and different cost-cutting measures. Sadly, workers at many personal startups aren’t aware about detailed monetary details about their employers.
Restructuring groups or departments: Firms could merge or consolidate groups in an try to streamline operations and minimize prices. The redundancies that consequence from these restructuring strikes usually result in job cuts. Firms may additionally improve their reliance on outsourced groups or contractors.
Elevated inner communication: Frequent communication to workers from administration concerning the firm’s monetary challenges, workforce optimization, the necessity to scale back bills, or the necessity for increased productiveness may point out that layoffs are into consideration. Enterprise-backed startups attempt to handle their money runway — the period of time they will proceed working at their present money burn charge with out recent capital — and may additionally warn workers about the necessity to scale back money burn.
Surprising modifications in firm coverage: An organization that all of a sudden mandates that workers who’ve labored remotely return to a bodily workplace could also be considering layoffs. Typically, such insurance policies are used as rationale to shed staff who don’t adjust to the brand new mandates. Equally, sudden organizational assessments or audits of worker efficiency outdoors of frequently scheduled enterprise opinions could also be precursors to layoffs.
Decreased workload or mission cancellations: Different indicators that an organization is experiencing monetary difficulties that would result in layoffs embody a noticeable discount in workload for workers or main tasks which can be canceled or postponed.
Different cost-cutting measures: Firms often pause or cancel perks and advantages together with worker journey, catered meals or training or wellness stipends forward of bigger cost-cutting measures resembling layoffs.
When will layoffs cease?
What number of latest tech layoffs have there been?
Tech layoffs began surging within the 2022 market correction, with an estimated 93,000 U.S. tech staff laid off that 12 months. That determine greater than doubled in 2023, with round 200,000 U.S. tech workers laid off, based on our Tech Layoffs Tracker. Layoffs abated once more in 2024, with round 95,000 reported tech layoffs.
Consider, many corporations don’t report detailed layoffs figures, and a few corporations proceed hiring after cuts for positions deemed extra helpful to the enterprise.
Is promoting the corporate choice to keep away from layoffs?
What jobs are being minimize in tech layoffs?
Tech layoffs have hit throughout departments at many corporations.
Many layoffs from the massive tech giants have been software program engineers. Startups are typically extra more likely to retain engineers in favor of doing layoffs of their expertise and recruiting, advertising and different departments.
Google minimize roles in its gross sales, recruiting, product and engineering groups. Amazon layoffs included jobs in its AWS cloud unit, at its social video platform Twitch, and in its promoting division. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated the corporate’s recruiting division could be the primary to see job cuts.
The place can I learn latest tech layoff information?
Observe all of our tech layoffs information right here and monitor which corporations are reducing jobs with the layoffs tracker above.
The place can I see layoffs within the final 24 hours?
Whereas not every day, this Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker is up to date weekly, if no more often, with the newest job cuts at U.S. tech employers.
Which corporations are hiring for open tech jobs?
Many tech corporations proceed to rent for open roles, regardless of layoffs within the sector. Discover out extra about Crunchbase’s Actively Hiring filter and the way yow will discover corporations with a number of open roles.
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