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Layoffs: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Mar 2023
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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Google Layoffs: 250 employees walk out in protest over layoffs
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Google Layoffs: 250 employees walk out in protest over layoffs

250 employees of Tech giant google in Zurich have walked out in protest of colleagues’ layoffs. The IT union Syndicom is representing the employees and the walkout started at 11:00 am. The company employees want the officials to have a conversation with workers so that the alternatives to layoffs can be presented. A Syndicom spokesperson said, […]

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Microsoft India laid off employee says challenging time for family
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Microsoft India laid off employee says challenging time for family

Recently, according to several reports Tech giant, Microsoft has announced a third round of layoffs. The roles that are impacted in this round of layoffs are Supply Chain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT). The reports suggest that the company has shut down its AI-powered automation effort Project Bonsai and laid off the team. […]

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Amazon India employee loses job after 6 months of joining
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Amazon India employee loses job after 6 months of joining

In an American multinational technology company, an Amazon India employee lost his job just after 6 months after joining the company. Amit Kore was working with Amazon India as an SDE. He joined the company in August 2022. Recently in January, Amazon planned to layoff 18,000 employees globally. Amit Kore shared a LinkedIn post, “I wanted […]

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Microsoft 3rd layoff round hits employees 10,000 jobs affected
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Microsoft 3rd layoff round hits employees 10,000 jobs affected

According to several reposts, an American multinational technology corporation, Microsoft has conducted a third round of layoffs. The roles that have been impacted include the areas of the supply chain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT). The reports suggest that the company has shut down its AI-powered automation effort Project Bonsai and […]

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upGrad, Google & Atlassian to layoff thousands of employees
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upGrad, Google & Atlassian to layoff thousands of employees

The year 2023 is the year of Layoff. In the next round of layoffs soon upGrad, Google, and Atlassian will sack thousands of employees. Atlassian Layoff An Australian software company, Atlassian announces layoffs of 500 employees as a cost-cutting measure. Co-founders billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar wrote to employees that the company has to […]

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Meta to sack thousands of employees in second round of layoffs
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Meta to sack thousands of employees in second round of layoffs

According to the reports, Meta (formerly named Facebook) has asked its Directors and Vice Presidents to list the names of the employees that can be let go in this round of layoffs. This will be a second round of layoffs. Earlier, The company reportedly conducted ‘quiet layoffs‘ at Facebook 11,000 or about 13 percent of its […]

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Zoom fires its President ‘without cause’
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Zoom fires its President ‘without cause’

A communications technology company, Zoom has fired its President Greg Tomb ‘without cause’. However, the company has not shared the reason for the termination. According to reports, Greg Tomb will be entitled to severance benefits that are payable upon a “termination without cause.” Greg Tomb was appointed as President of Zoom in June 2022. Prior to Zoom, […]

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Alphabet fires Waymo employees; Citigroup Cuts Hundreds of Jobs
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Alphabet fires Waymo employees; Citigroup Cuts Hundreds of Jobs

The year 2023 started on a Layoff note. Now, Google Parent Company Alphabet, Citigroup, and General Motors have announced fresh layoffs. 107,780 employees were sacked from various companies this year in January 2023. However, in February 2023 the number has reduced to 47,533 impacted employees. And in March to date, 2,070 employees have been sacked. Recently, in […]

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Google has not only laid off humans but now robots are being fired
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Google has not only laid off humans but now robots are being fired

The tech giant, Google has not only laid off humans but now even robots are being fired. According to reports, The company’s newest subsidiary, Everyday Robots had trained over a hundred robots that had a single arm and wheels to move around. These robots were responsible to open doors, cleaning cafeteria tables, and sorting trash. […]

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