Layoffs at the beginning of the year? Amazon, Salesforce and other companies have laid off 24,000 employees this month!

It is learned that according to foreign media reports, the "layoff wave" continues to sweep the US technology industry in 2023. In the past 15 days (January 1 to 15), more than 91 technology companies laid off more than 2,400 employees worldwide.

According to layoffs.fyi, a layoff tracking agency, companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, and Coinbase laid off a total of 24,151 employees in early January.

Earlier this month, US media reported that Amazon will lay off more than 17,000 people worldwide, more than the initial plan of 10,000. This is the largest staff reduction in the company's history.

Just last week, people familiar with the matter revealed that Amazon will lay off about 1,000 employees in India as part of its global layoffs. Amazon has about 100,000 employees in India, and the layoffs account for 1% of the total number of employees in India.

Recently, an anonymous employee posted a post on Grapevine about the layoffs at Amazon India. "75% of my team left. Although I stayed, I have lost my motivation to work. The laid-off employees are crying in the office."

In addition to Amazon, Google, another large American technology company, said at the end of November 2022 that starting from the beginning of next year, the company will gradually lay off some employees based on a new performance system. It is expected that 10,000 employees will be laid off in 2023, accounting for 6% of the total global workforce.

Data from Layoffs.fyi shows that 153,110 employees were laid off worldwide in 2022, led by companies including Meta, Twitter, Oracle, Nvidia, Snap, Uber, Spotify, Intel and Salesforce. The number of layoffs peaked in November, with 51,489 employees losing their jobs.

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