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By bwestergard 2026-03-1419:532 reply The framing of this makes it seem like this is a sharp change in trend, but this long-running layoff tracker shows no evidence of this.
2020 and 2023 both had serious layoff spikes, but the 2023 spike trailed off to an asymptote that we're still hovering around.
By phyzix5761 2026-03-1421:181 reply This is missing a lot of data. Companies that I know for a fact are doing mass tech layoffs are not listed here.
If you go into the larger field, the trend since 2021 is overall concerning, particularly if you factor in Trump's desire to just stop reporting: https://www.macrotrends.net/3208/us-layoffs-and-discharges
And Meta has another round coming, soon the only thing left at the company will be data center staff.
Apparently 20% to be laid off soon.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning...
By PlanksVariable 2026-03-1419:547 reply Surprised it took this long. I feel bad for the employees, but I can’t remember the last success they had. Metaverse, VR, throwing absurd money at AI and for what?
By badgersnake 2026-03-1421:15 It’s a lobbying firm now isn’t it?
From my experience in some large tech firms, you could easily cut 20% of the workers and not see much impact. There is so much bloat, process-people, meetings-people, etc... Even if the cuts aren't from AI, execs will use AI as a reason to make these cuts.
By Esophagus4 2026-03-1423:191 reply Yep - IME the trick is that fixing a bloated company is 2 parts: laying off bloat, and fixing the bad processes / restructuring the company to not need so much bloat in the first place.
I’ve worked at a company that pulled the layoff lever a lot but never did the hard work of investing in fixing the broken stuff… the layoffs actually just made everything worse.
If you have a team whose job is to put duct tape on the widget when it leaks, and you lay off most of that team without fixing the widget, your leak gets worse because you have fewer people with duct tape.
What you need is find people who can fix the widget, then fire all the duct tape people.
By mountainriver 2026-03-1423:22 Every big company I’ve worked for has an immense about of bloat. Whole departments that exist just because someone wanted it to exist at some point in time.
The health of an organization is often linked in their ability to fire people.
