Layoffs: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Jan 2023
Read Sundar Pichai’s letter firing 12000 Google employees
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Read Sundar Pichai’s letter firing 12000 Google employees

An American multinational technology company, Google parent Alphabet had announced to sack 12,000 employees. The company has already sent the email to the employees in US. The company is providing the following benefits to the affected employees:- SUNDAR PICHAI’S Email to Employees Googlers, I have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our […]

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Amazon HR Head told employees in an email about more job cuts
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Amazon HR Head told employees in an email about more job cuts

Tech giant, Amazon is laying off more than 18,000 employees which was 80% more employees than previously planned. The company has also stopped corporate hiring across. Earlier, Amazon delayed the joining dates for some university graduates until the end of 2023 due to cost-cutting efforts. Earlier, The onboarding of the employees was expected to be completed by […]

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Wipro sacks freshers, 452 people allegedly fired after internal test
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Wipro sacks freshers, 452 people allegedly fired after internal test

An Indian multinational corporation, Wipro has sacked 452 fresher employees due to poor performance. Wipro fired the employees after taking an internal test. However, the company has waived the training cost spent on the employees. However, the company has not commented on the exact number of layoffs. As per the update the company laid off […]

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Swiggy lays off 380 employees, CEO letter to employees
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Swiggy lays off 380 employees, CEO letter to employees

An Indian online food ordering and delivery platform, Swiggy lays off 380 employees due to the company’s restructuring exercise. Due to “poor judgment the company has “overhired” employees. The CEO has also explained that the growth rate for food delivery has slowed down. This was against the company’s projections. The company’s CEO said, “We’re implementing […]

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A startup fired 70% of staff due to reported incorrect financial data
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A startup fired 70% of staff due to reported incorrect financial data

Indian Startup of an online vehicle repair platform, GoMechanic fires nearly 70% of the workforce due to Reported Incorrect Financial Data. Amit Bhasin cofounder GoMechanic shared a LinkedIn post saying, “We founded GoMechanic In 2016 to bridge the gap between process-oriented authorized service centers and cost-effective local workshops for people who were looking for a […]

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Tencent fires 100 employees for bribery and embezzlement
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Tencent fires 100 employees for bribery and embezzlement

Asia’s biggest internet company, Tencent Holdings Ltd fired more than 100 employees. The reason behind the termination is violating law and company policies in 2022 including suspected bribery and embezzlement. The number of employees that were sacked was accused of corruption were part of the company’s PCG arm. The PCG arm oversees its mammoth content […]

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Microsoft to sack 11,000 employees worldwide
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Microsoft to sack 11,000 employees worldwide

An American multinational technology company, Microsoft will sack 11,000 employees worldwide due to the global economic slowdown. The year 2023 has begun on a bad note for tech workers globally. There have been nearly 91 companies that have laid off more than 24,000 tech employees in the first 15 days this month. More than 1,600 […]

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Amazon HR people turn from hiring to seeking jobs themselves
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Amazon HR people turn from hiring to seeking jobs themselves

Bloomberg | Amazon: With job cuts mounting across tech, finance, and other industries, why wait to get fired when you can skip directly to being hired? The move, called “career cushioning,” involves lining up a plan B while still fully employed, especially when job cuts are imminent. This is usually done discreetly — perhaps a networking […]

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Ola fires 200 people in a fresh round of layoffs
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Ola fires 200 people in a fresh round of layoffs

According to Business Today, an Indian multinational ridesharing company, Ola has fired 200 people in a fresh round of layoffs. The layoffs are across Ola Cabs, the ride-hailing business, and Ola Electric, the electric vehicle manufacturing company. Earlier in September, Ola laid off nearly 200 employees across the engineering segment. The company earlier made headlines […]

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Unacademy builds LinkedIn competitor NextLevel, 40 people fired
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Unacademy builds LinkedIn competitor NextLevel, 40 people fired

In another round of layoffs, an Indian educational technology company, Unacademy will let go of around 40 people. NextLevel, which was launched last month as a product that would ‘disrupt LinkedIn’ and make resumes irrelevant. Unacademy has laid off more than 1,200 employees since the start of 2021. The company has halved its team […]

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McDonald’s to sack employees; CEO Chris Kempczinski confirms
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McDonald’s to sack employees; CEO Chris Kempczinski confirms

An American multinational fast food chain, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski has confirmed that the company may layoff employees in April 2023 as part of a cost-cutting exercise. The layoff will affect the employees from the corporate wing of the company. The CEO has told Wall Street Journal that “some jobs that are existing today are either […]

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upGrad-owned Harappa sacks 35% of the workforce
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upGrad-owned Harappa sacks 35% of the workforce

As 2023 started the news of layoffs. Recently, upGrad-owned learner-centered institution, Harappa has announced to sack of nearly 70 employees or 35% of its 200-strong workforce. As per reports, the affected employees have been told to serve a month’s notice, and no other severance benefits have been offered to them. The layoffs have affected mainly […]

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