Layoffs: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Apr 2023
McKinsey & Company to slash 1,400 jobs this week
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McKinsey & Company to slash 1,400 jobs this week

According to a Bloomberg report, Consulting giant McKinsey & Company is embarking on a rare round of major job cuts, with plans to eliminate about 1,400 jobs this week. The job cut is nearly 3% of the total workforce. The company is laying off employees due to a global economic downturn. The company is restructuring […]

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Employee sacked for reheating food in the company’s microwave
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Employee sacked for reheating food in the company’s microwave

The year 2023 started on a layoff note. So far in 2023, there have been 708 layoffs at tech companies with 211,140 people impacted (2,427 people per day). In 2022, there were 1,535 layoffs at tech companies 241,176 people were impacted. There can be many reasons behind sacking an employee. Companies are laying off employees due to poor performance, cost-cutting, or due to economic uncertainty. […]

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GitHub sacks entire engineering team in India
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GitHub sacks entire engineering team in India

Microsoft-owned, AI-powered developer platform GitHub has sacked its entire engineering team operating in India. This has affected nearly 100 employees. Gergely Orosz, Tech writer has shared the information through a Tweet, “What I am hearing: GitHub’s India engineering team is no more. Yesterday, the complete dev team was let go at once. We’re talking of […]

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IT services companies plan to cut 5% of the BFSI workforce
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IT services companies plan to cut 5% of the BFSI workforce

The US and European banks are currently facing a financial crisis. This will adversely affect India’s many IT services companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro, HCL, and Infosys. The reports suggested that the regional banks in the US account for 2-3 percent of their total revenue. However, TCS, Infosys, and Mindtree may have an exposure of 10-20 basis […]

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No end to layoffs! READ heartbroken CEO’s message on layoffs
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No end to layoffs! READ heartbroken CEO’s message on layoffs

There is no end to layoffs recently an American worldwide employment website, Indeed has sacked 2,200 employees roughly 15% of the workforce. The company’s severance package will have some additions based on role and location, but under the severance agreement employees will receive: Indeed CEO Chris Hyams wrote, “I am heartbroken to share that I have made […]

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Accenture to sack 19,000 employees in next 18 months
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Accenture to sack 19,000 employees in next 18 months

A leading global professional services company, Accenture will sack 19,000 employees which is nearly 2.5 percent of the company’s workforce. More than half of the layoffs would impact employees in its non-billable corporate functions. According to CNBC reports the layoff will be over a period of the next 18 months. CNBC-TV18 shared a tweet saying, “#NewsFlash | […]

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‘Please resign’: Zuckerberg’s email, asks an employee to resign
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‘Please resign’: Zuckerberg’s email, asks an employee to resign

An old email from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on September 22, 2010, in which he is asking a Facebook employee to “please resign” came out in public for the first time on Tuesday. The email was shared by Internal Tech Emails on Twitter. The email read, “Lots of you saw the TechCrunch story over […]

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Amazon employee disappointed ‘my first job ended so soon’
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Amazon employee disappointed ‘my first job ended so soon’

The year 2023 started on a layoff note many Tech companies have sacked lakhs of employees. So far in 2023, there have been 668 layoffs at tech companies with 184,850 people impacted (2,311 people per day). Amazon has recently announced the second round of layoffs. Amazon sacked 27,000 employees in the last three months. Recently, the company announced to layoff of 9000 […]

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Amazon second round of layoffs to sack 9,000 employees
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Amazon second round of layoffs to sack 9,000 employees

An American technology company, Amazon has said that the company is sacking 9,000 more employees in the next few weeks. The employees mostly in AWS, advertising, and Twitch will be impacted by the layoffs. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared the information in a blog post. The impacted employees will be provided packages that include a […]

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LivSpace home decor brand announces massive job cuts
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LivSpace home decor brand announces massive job cuts

Home renovation and interior platform Livspace is laying off employees as part of a cost-cutting exercise due to the ongoing funding winter. According to reports, Livspace has sacked at least 100 employees from across several teams. The layoffs have impacted 2 percent of the workforce from the product, engineering, content, and marketing teams of the […]

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Wipro sacks 120 people in US over realignment of business needs
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Wipro sacks 120 people in US over realignment of business needs

An Indian multinational corporation, Wipro has sacked 120 employees in the US over ‘realignment of business needs’. According to reports, Due to the layoffs, more than 100 of the impacted employees are from the processing agents. The remaining sacked employees are from the team leaders and team managers. These impacted employees are from the Tampa […]

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Meta sacks women who are on maternity leave: ‘This ending sucks’
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Meta sacks women who are on maternity leave: ‘This ending sucks’

Meta owning Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp recently announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs. It was the second wave of mass reduction from the tech company. The company earlier laid off 11,000 employees last November. As the company announced the layoff now employees have been sharing their experiences with layoffs. Recently two pregnant female employees shared their […]

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