A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs
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The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at that scale, they’re still significant, driven by big names like Pixar, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and TikTok. It remains to be seen if this year’s layoff trends follow last year’s, in which layoffs slowed down in the summer, before cuts began ramping up yet again toward the winter.
Momentum for a tech sector rebound remains slow to build, outside of bright spots within artificial intelligence and adjacent companies, resulting in tech companies continuing to cut back on their workforces and pivot from a growth mindset to one based on efficiency in the face of stubborn market conditions.
But tracking these layoffs helps us to understand the impact on innovation, which companies are facing tough pressures and who is available to hire for the businesses lucky to be growing right now. Unfortunately, it also serves as a reminder of the deeply human impact of layoffs and how risk profiles could evolve from here.
Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of all the known layoffs in tech that started last year, to be updated monthly. If you have a tip on a layoff, contact us here. If you prefer to remain anonymous, you can contact us here.
The final total of layoffs for 2023 ended up being 262,735, according to Layoffs.fyi. Tech layoffs conducted in 2023 were 59% higher than 2022’s total, according to the data in the tracker. And 2024 is off to a rough start despite not reaching the peak of last year’s first quarter cutbacks.
- January: 89,554 employees laid off — see all January 2023 Tech Layoffs
- February: 40,021 employees laid off — see all February 2023 Tech Layoffs
- March: 37,823 employees laid off — see all March 2023 Tech Layoffs
- April: 20,014 employees laid off — see all April 2023 Tech Layoffs
- May: 14,928 employees laid off — see all May 2023 Tech Layoffs
- June: 10,958 employees laid off — see all June 2023 Tech Layoffs
- July: 10,589 employees laid off — see all July 2023 Tech Layoffs
- August: 9,545 employees laid off — see all August 2023 Tech Layoffs
- September: 4,632 employees laid off — see all September 2023 Tech Layoffs
- October: 7,331 employees laid off — see all October 2023 Tech Layoffs
- November: 6,956 employees laid off — see all November 2023 Tech Layoffs
- December: 7,159 employees laid off — see all December 2023 Tech Layoffs
- January 2024: 19,350 employees laid off — see all January 2024 Tech Layoffs
- February 2024: 15,589 employees laid off — see all February 2024 Tech Layoffs
- March 2024: 7,322 employees laid off — see all March 2024 Tech Layoffs
Data visualization by Miranda Halpern, created with Flourish
April 2024
Checkr
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.
Bolt.Earth
Reportedly laid off a sizable part of its staff in a restructuring effort. The number of employees impacted is currently unknown, but sources told Inc42 that it could be “in the range of 70-100” workers.
Apple
Is laying off 614 employees in California after abandoning its electric car project, according to a WARN notice.
Agility Robotics
Has laid off a “small number” of employees as part of a company-wide focus on commercialization efforts.
Ghost Autonomy
Shut down operations. The company, which was backed by OpenAI, employed about 100 people.
Whirlpool
Is shutting down Yummly, the recipe and cooking app it acquired in 2017.
AWS
Will cut hundreds of jobs across Sales, Marketing, Global Services and its Physical Stores Technology team.
Byju’s
Is laying off about 500 employees, accounting for 3% of its total workforce, as part of a restructuring effort.
March 2024
ChowNow
Has laid off 20% of its staff after acquiring point-of-sale platform Cuboh. The company previously laid off 100 people in 2022.
Nintendo of America
Is restructuring its testing department, which is largely made up of contractors. A Nintendo spokesperson told Kotaku the changes will end some assignments but will lead to the creation of new full-time positions.
Dell
Cut its global workforce by about 6,000 jobs, according to a 10-K SEC filing. The filing reveals the company cut 13,000 jobs in the last year.
Synctera
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.
ShopBack
Is cutting 195 roles in an effort to become more sustainable, CEO Henry Chan wrote in a blog post. The layoffs impact nearly a quarter of its staff.
Airmeet
Reportedly eliminated 20% of its total workforce in its second restructuring effort in the past year.
Chipper Cash
Conducted another round of layoffs impacting 20 employees, CEO Ham Serunjogi announced in a blog post.
Textio
Has reportedly cut 16% of its staff in a strategic move to support its Textio Lift product.
Stash
Is reportedly laying off around 25% of its workforce. According to Axios, the cuts affect roughly 80 people.
Phantom Auto
Is shutting 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.
IBM
Is reportedly slashing its marketing and communications staff. The company previously announced a strategy to replace upwards of 8,000 jobs with AI.
Inscribe.ai
Cut just under 40% of its staff, equating to dozens of employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
Turnitin
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.
Sorare
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.
Melio
Is eliminating roughly 7% of its workforce as part of organizational restructuring. The fintech unicorn last conducted layoffs in August 2022.
ONE
Is cutting about 13% of its workforce, affecting 40 employees. It’s the second round of layoffs for the battery startup in recent months.
Project Ronin
Is shutting down, resulting in a “permanent mass layoff” impacting around 150 employees.
February 2024
Fisker
Plans to lay off 15% of its workforce and says it likely does not have enough cash on hand to survive the next 12 months.
EA
Cut 5% of its workforce, impacting 670 employees, as it moves away from the “development of future licensed IP.”
Bumble
Is letting go of about 350 employees, accounting for 30% of its workforce.
Apple
Is likely cutting hundreds of employees who worked on the company’s autonomous electric car project now that the effort has stopped, TechCrunch has learned.
Sony
Is laying off 900 employees from its PlayStation unit, affecting 8% of the division’s workforce. Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla and Firesprite studios will also be impacted.
Expedia
Will reportedly cut 1,500 roles in 2024, primarily in its Product & Technology division, accounting for more than 8% of the company’s workforce.
Finder
Eliminated roughly 60 employees, or 17% of its workforce. It’s the financial startup’s third major layoff round in the past 12 months.
Rivian
Is laying off 10% of its salaried workforce in a bid to cut costs in an increasingly tough market for EVs.
Meati Foods
Will lay off 13% of its workforce as it works to “build a financially sustainable business,” CEO Phil Graves told TechCrunch exclusively.
Cisco
Announced it will eliminate 5% of its employees, impacting more than 4,000 people.
Toast
Will lay off about 550 workers in a move designed to promote “operating expense efficiency.”
Instacart
Announced in an SEC filing that it will lay off roughly 250 employees as part of a restructuring effort.
Mozilla
Is scaling back its investment in a number of products, TechCrunch has learned, resulting in layoffs that will affect roughly 60 employees.
Grammarly
Is laying off 230 employees worldwide as part of the company’s efforts to advance its focus on “the AI-enabled workplace of the future.”
Getaround
Is cutting 30% of its North American workforce as part of a restructuring.
Amazon
Is reportedly cutting jobs in its healthcare businesses One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy. The number of impacted roles is currently unknown.
DocuSign
Announced plans to eliminate 6% of its workforce, largely impacting the company’s sales and marketing divisions.
Snap
Announced plans to cut 10% of its workforce, impacting roughly 500-plus employees, in an effort to “reduce hierarchy.”
Polygon Labs
Has laid off 60 employees, or about 19% of its staff, CEO Marc Boiron announced in a blog post.
Okta
Is laying off approximately 400 employees. The layoffs come almost exactly a year to the day after Okta announced plans to cut about 300 employees.
January 2024
Thinx
Will lay off 95 workers in New York City, according to a filing with the New York Department of Labor.
Proofpoint
Is laying off about 6% of its global workforce, or 280 employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
Wattpad
Conducted another round of layoffs earlier this month, amounting to roughly 15% of its workforce, a source familiar with the situation told TechCrunch.
Block
Is reportedly laying off around 1,000 people in the Cash App, foundational and Square arms of Block.
PayPal
Has reportedly 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.”
Aurora Solar
Has laid off 20% of its staff of about 1,000 people, TechCrunch exclusively learned. The cuts to the software startup come despite record growth in the solar industry last year.
iRobot
Is laying 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.
Salesforce
Is reportedly laying off 700 workers, or around 1% of its staff. This comes after the company had a significant reduction of 10% of its workforce in 2023.
Flexport
Is reportedly planning to cut around 20% of its staff in the next few weeks. The company announced similar cuts in October, when founder Ryan Petersen returned as CEO and slashed its workforce by 20%.
Microsoft
Is laying off 1,900 employees across its gaming divisions following its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Blizzard president Mike Ybarra announced he will also be stepping down.
Swiggy
Is cutting 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.
Aurora
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.
eBay
Will lay off 9% of the company’s workforce, affecting about 1,000 full-time employees. In a blog post, the company also plans to cut contract roles in the coming months.
SAP
Announced it intends to offer voluntary buyouts or job changes to 8,000 employees amid restructuring.
Brex
Laid off 20% of its staff, affecting 282 workers. In a 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.”
TikTok
Eliminated around 60 jobs across the U.S. in Los Angeles, New York, and Austin in addition to layoffs in international markets. The affected roles, according to NPR’s initial reporting, are largely in sales and advertising.
Vroom
Is cutting 90% of its employees as 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.
Riot Games
Is laying off 11% of its workforce, affecting about 530 employees, as the company focuses on “fewer, high-impact projects.” The League of Legends maker is also sunsetting its five-year-old publishing group, Riot Forge.
Wayfair
Is eliminating 13% of its global workforce, affecting 1,650 employees, in a restructuring effort aimed at cutting layers of management.
YouTube
Will eliminate 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 employees in its advertising sales team, according to a leaked memo. The cuts come a week after the company did sweeping layoffs across 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.
Lost Boys Interactive
Reportedly laid off a “sizable” number of employees January 12. The game developer studio was acquired by Borderlands maker Gearbox in 2022.
Pixar
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.
Audible
Is laying off 5% of its workforce, citing an “increasingly challenging landscape,” according to a leaked memo obtained by Business Insider.
Discord
Is laying off 17% of its staff, impacting 170 people. In an internal memo obtained by the Verge, Discord CEO Jason Citron blamed the cuts on the company growing too quickly.
Laid off hundreds of employees across 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.
Amazon
Is laying off “several hundreds” of employees at Prime Video and MGM Studios, according to a memo obtained by TechCrunch. The cuts come days after the 500 layoffs at Amazon’s Twitch.
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.
Treasure Financial
Confirmed to TechCunch that layoffs, conducted in December, had impacted 14 employees, accounting for 60% to 70% of the company, according to multiple sources.
Duolingo
Confirmed it cut 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023 as it turns to AI to streamline content production and translations previously handled by humans.
Rent the Runway
Will cut about 10% of corporate roles as it goes through a restructuring plan following Anushka Salinas’ planned resignation as operating chief and president at the end of January.
Unity
Is reducing its workforce by about 25%, or 1,800 people. The video game engine maker went through three rounds of layoffs in 2023.
Pitch
Laid off two-thirds of its employees as the German startup, which built collaborative presentation software, looks to pursue a “completely different path.” CEO and co-founder Christian Reber also stepped down.
BenchSci
The AI and biomedical startup reportedly cut 17% of its workforce January 8, citing “shifts in the economic environment,” in a LinkedIn post announcing the layoffs.
Flexe
Eliminated 38% of its staff January 8 as the online retail logistics company follows up after conducting layoffs in September 2023.
NuScale
Announced January 8 it is laying off 28% of its staff, or 154 workers, as the small modular nuclear reactor company shifts its focus to “key strategic areas.”
Trigo
Is reportedly laying off 15% of its workforce focused on computer vision for retailers.
InVision
Is shutting down at the end of 2024 after a 12 year run. The design collaboration startup was once valued at nearly $2B.
VideoAmp
Is laying off nearly 20% of its workforce as it tries to maintain its battle with Nielsen over media measurement. CEO Ross McCray stepped down from the company.
Orca Security
Is laying off roughly 15% of its staff, totaling 60 employees. The Israel-based unicorn reportedly plans to move some impacted employees into other positions at the company.
Frontdesk
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 startup acquired rival Zencity.
Data visualization by Miranda Halpern, created with Flourish
December 2023
ShareChat
Is cutting 15% of its workforce in a “strategic restructuring” effort for 2024.
Insightec
Is reportedly laying off 100 employees, with 60 from the company’s Israel headquarters.
Udaan
Reportedly laid off up to 150 employees in a restructuring effort. This month, the business-to-business e-commerce startup scored $340 million in new funding.
Enphase
Is reducing their workforce by around 10%, impacting roughly 350 contractors and employees, president and CEO Badri Kothandaraman wrote in a blog post December 18.
Arm Holdings PLC
Reportedly laid off more than 70 software engineers in China and will relocate some roles.
Delivery Hero
Is shutting down operations in Taiwan and Turkey and plans to eliminate roles at its Berlin headquarters, the company said December 18.
eBay
Is reportedly eliminating nearly 10% of its workforce in Israel. It’s the company’s second round of layoffs this year.
Intel
Will cut 235 employees at its Folsom office campus at the end of the year, the company reported to state employment officials December 15.
Superpedestrian
Is shutting down its U.S.-based shared scooter operation and exploring a sale of its European business, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Bolt
Confirmed it laid off 29% of its staff December 15. The e-commerce company known for its one-click checkout technology was at one time the subject of a federal probe.
Cruise
In an announcement obtained exclusively by TechCrunch, the embattled self-driving car company is cutting 900 employees, or 24% of its workforce, per a December 14 email from new president and CTO Mo Elshenawy.
Etsy
Is laying off 11% of its workforce. In a letter to employees December 13, CEO Josh Silverman cited a “very challenging macro and competitive environment.”
Chipper Cash
Has reportedly laid off 15 people across various departments. It would be the fintech unicorn’s fourth round of layoffs this year.
SmileDirectClub
Has shut down three months after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing $900 million of debt.
Sunfolding
Is reportedly winding down its operations. On its website, Y Combinator categorizes Sunfolding as an “inactive” company.
Zulily
Will lay off more than 500 employees after closing fulfillment centers in Ohio and Nevada in February 2024.
D2iQ
Is shutting down its operations and selling its assets to Nutanix.
Atmosphere
Has reportedly eliminated a large part of its workforce. The business-focused streaming TV service raised $100 million in 2022.
Tidal
Is laying off more than 10% of its staff, the company confirmed to TechCrunch December 7.
ZestMoney
Is shutting down operations. The Goldman Sachs-backed “buy now, pay later” startup was once valued at $450 million.
Navan
Is cutting about 145 roles as the travel startup previously known as TripActions plans to become public.
Incredibuild
Is laying off 20% of its workforce. The software development startup previously raised $35 million in a Series B funding in 2022.
Bill
Will cut around 15% of its workforce, the company announced December 5, and close its Sydney office to increase profitability.
CourseHero
Announced December 5 it eliminated 23 employees across engineering, operations and development.
Pivo
Shut down operations December 5. The Nigerian fintech startup previously raised $2 million in a seed round.
Twilio
Announced hundreds of job cuts December 4, amounting to…