Tech Bloodbath: Who’s Next on the 2025 Chopping Block?

Hustler Words – The tech industry’s turbulent seas continue into 2025, with layoffs persisting as a stark reality. Following a year where over 150,000 jobs were slashed across 549 companies, as tracked by Layoffs.fyi, the new year has already witnessed more than 22,000 tech workers facing reductions, with February alone accounting for a staggering 16,084 cuts. This ongoing trend raises critical questions about the future of innovation and the human cost of automation and AI adoption.

This article provides a comprehensive, continuously updated list of tech layoffs in 2025, offering insights into the sectors and companies most affected. It serves as a vital resource for understanding the shifting landscape and the potential impact on the broader tech ecosystem.

October Layoff Updates

• Rivian: The electric vehicle manufacturer is cutting 600 jobs, about 4% of its workforce, marking its third layoff this year amid a slowdown in the EV market.

• Meta: Reportedly laying off approximately 600 employees across its AI infrastructure units, including the Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) team. However, top-tier AI hires in TBD Labs will not be affected.

• Applied Materials: Plans to cut about 4% of its workforce, or roughly 1,400 jobs, to streamline operations amid tighter U.S. semiconductor export controls.

• Handshake: The online platform connecting college students and recent graduates with employers laid off around 100 employees in October, about 15% of its 650-person U.S. workforce.

• Smartsheet: The enterprise software company has reportedly laid off over 120 employees amid a leadership transition following CEO Mark Mader’s retirement.

• Google: The company has cut over 100 design roles in its cloud division, hitting U.S.-based teams especially hard, as the company shifts focus toward AI investments.

• Paycom: The Oklahoma City-based HR and payroll software company is reportedly laying off over 500 employees due to AI and automation improving back-office efficiencies.

September Layoff Updates

• Just Eat: Europe’s largest food delivery company will eliminate around 450 jobs as part of a cost and operations review, citing increased automation and AI adoption.

• Fiverr: The freelance services marketplace plans to cut around 250 jobs, approximately 30% of its workforce, to become a leaner, faster, and AI-focused company.

• ZipRecruiter: The recruitment firm is closing its Tel Aviv development center, cutting about 80 jobs amid a challenging labor market.

• GupShup: The conversational AI company has laid off at least 100 employees, including junior developers, just months after cutting nearly 200 jobs.

• xAI: The company laid off about a third of its data annotation team, cutting roughly 500 jobs, as it shifts focus from generalist AI tutors to specialist roles.

• Rivian: The electric vehicle manufacturer has reportedly laid off about 200 workers, or 1.5% of its staff, as the company braces for the end of federal EV tax credits.

• Oracle: The company is cutting another 101 jobs in Seattle and 254 in San Francisco, just weeks after a wave of layoffs in August.

• Salesforce: The company is trimming another 262 jobs at its San Francisco headquarters, with layoffs set to take effect November 3.

August Layoff Updates

• Cisco: The company will eliminate 221 positions across its Milpitas and San Francisco offices as part of its broader workforce-reduction strategy.

• Restaurant365: The company laid off about 100 employees last month, around 9% of its workforce, after falling short of ambitious growth targets.

• Oracle: The company is set to cut 101 jobs at its Santa Clara location, with notices issued on August 13 and terminations effective October 13. The company is also planning to lay off 161 employees in Seattle.

• F5: The company is cutting 106 positions at its Seattle and Liberty Lake, Washington, offices as part of a broader global workforce reduction.

• Peloton: The company will cut 6% of its workforce in its sixth layoff in just over a year to improve long-term business health.

• Kaltura: The company is cutting 10% of its workforce, or about 70 employees, as part of a cost-saving effort to reduce operating expenses by $8.5 million.

• Yotpo: The company is laying off about 200 employees, roughly 34% of its global workforce, as it shuts down its email and SMS marketing operations.

• Windsurf: The company laid off 30 employees and is now offering buyouts to the remaining 200.

• Wondery: The company is cutting 100 jobs, and its CEO, Jen Sargent, is departing.

July Layoff Updates

• Atlassian: The company has cut 150 roles in customer service and support, following enhancements to its platform and tools that have significantly reduced support needs.

• Consensys: The company is cutting about 7% of its workforce, or 47 employees, as part of a push toward profitability.

• Zeen: The company is shutting down operations.

• Scale AI: The company is laying off around 200 employees – roughly 14% of its workforce – and severing ties with 500 global contractors.

• Lenovo: The company plans to cut more than 100 U.S. full-time jobs, about 3% of its workforce, including positions at its Morrisville, North Carolina, campus.

• Intel: The company is reportedly planning to lay off nearly 2,400 workers in Oregon, which is almost five times more than what was announced earlier this week.

• Indeed + Glassdoor: The companies plan to eliminate approximately 1,300 jobs combined as part of a larger restructuring effort to combine their operations and focus on AI.

• Eigen Lab: The company has laid off 29 employees as part of its reorganization.

• Microsoft: The company will cut 9,000 employees, which is less than 4% of its global workforce across teams, role types, and geographies.

• ByteDance: The company is laying off 65 employees in Bellevue, Washington.

June Layoff Updates

• TomTom: The company announced on June 30 that it is cutting 300 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, as part of organizational restructuring within its sales and support divisions amid the AI shift.

• Rivian: The company has reduced its headcount by approximately 140 employees, accounting for roughly 1% of its total workforce.

• Bumble: The company announced in an SEC filing that it will cut approximately 240 jobs, or 30% of its workforce, to enhance operational efficiency and allocate the resulting savings to the development of new products and technologies.

• Klue: The company has reportedly laid off 85 employees, which accounts for approximately 40% of its workforce.

• Google: The company has downsized its smart TV division by 25% of its 300-member team to adjust its strategy.

• Intel: The company says that it plans to lay off 15% to 20% of workers in its Intel Foundry division starting in July.

• Playtika: The company announced that it is letting go of around 90 employees, with 40 in Israel and 50 in Poland.

• Airtime: The company has let go of around 25 employees from the 58-person team.

• Microsoft: The company is laying off more employees, just a few weeks after announcing a job cut of over 6,500 in May, which was around 3% of its global workforce.

May Layoff Updates

• Hims & Hers: The company plans to downsize its workforce by letting go of 68 employees, approximately 4% of its total staff.

• Amazon: The company is reportedly laying off around 100 employees from its devices and services division, which encompasses various businesses like the Alexa voice assistant, Echo smart speakers, Ring video doorbells, and Zoox robotaxis.

• Microsoft: The company will cut over 6,500 jobs, affecting 3% of its worldwide workforce.

• Chegg: The company reportedly plans to let go of 248 employees, or about 22% of its workforce, to reduce expenses and improve efficiency, it said.

• Match: The company is reducing its workforce by 13% as part of a reorganization that aims to reduce costs, shore up margins, and streamline its organizational structure.

• CrowdStrike: The company is laying off 5% of its global workforce, or around 500 people.

• General Fusion: The company has cut roughly 25% of its current workforce.

• Deep Instinct: The company reduced its headcount by 20 employees, accounting for 10% of its total workforce.

• Beam: The company has shut down its operations months after announcing major expansion plans.

April Layoff Updates

• NetApp: The company is reportedly eliminating 700 jobs, affecting 6% of its total workforce, as it reorganizes for its operational efficiency.

• Electronic Arts: The company is reportedly letting go of approximately 300 to 400 employees, including around 100 at Respawn Entertainment, to focus on its “long-term strategic priorities,” according to Bloomberg.

• Expedia: The company is laying off around 3% of its employees as part of its restructuring.

• Cars24: The company has reduced its workforce by about 200 employees in its product and technology divisions as part of a restructuring measure.

• Meta: The company is letting go of over 100 employees in its Reality Labs division, which manages virtual reality and wearable technology, according to The Verge.

• Intel: The company announced its plan to lay off more than 21,000 employees, or roughly 20% of its workforce, in April.

• GM: The company is laying off 200 people at its Factory Zero in Detroit and Hamtramck facility in Michigan, which produces GM’s electric vehicles.

• Zopper: The company has reportedly let go of around 100 employees since the start of 2025.

• Turo: The company will reduce its workforce by 150 positions following its decision not to proceed with its IPO, per Bloomberg.

• GupShup: The company laid off roughly 200 employees to improve efficiency and profitability.

• Forto: The company has reportedly eliminated 200 jobs, affecting around one-third of its employees.

• Wicresoft: The company will stop its operations in China, affecting around 2,000 employees.

• Five9: The company plans to cut 123 jobs, affecting about 4% of its workforce, according to a report by MarketWatch.

• Google: The company has laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices division, which covers Android, Pixel phones, the Chrome browser, and more, according to The Information.

• Microsoft: The company is contemplating additional layoffs that could happen by May, Business Insider reported, citing anonymous sources.

• Automattic: The WordPress.com developer is laying off 16% of its workforce across departments.

• Canva: The company has let go of 10 to 12 technical writers approximately nine months after telling its employees to use generative AI tools wherever possible.

March Layoff Updates

• Northvolt: The company has laid off 2,800 employees, affecting 62% of its total staff.

• Block: The company let go of 931 employees, around 8% of its workforce, as part of a reorganization, according to an internal email seen by hustlerwords.com.

• Brightcove: The company has laid off 198 employees, who make up about two-thirds of its U.S. workforce, per a media report.

• Acxiom: The company has reportedly laid off 130 employees, or 3.5% of its total workforce of 3,700 people.

• Sequoia Capital: The company plans to close its office in Washington, D.C., and let go of its policy team there by the end of March, hustlerwords.com has confirmed.

• Siemens: The company announced plans to let go of approximately 5,600 jobs globally in its automation and electric-vehicle charging businesses as part of efforts to improve competitiveness.

• HelloFresh: The company is reportedly laying off 273 employees, closing its distribution center in Grand Prairie, Texas, and consolidating to another site in Irving to manage the volume in the region.

• Otorio: The company has cut 45 employees, more than half of its workforce, after being acquired by cybersecurity company Armis for $120 million in March.

• ActiveFence: The company will reportedly reduce 22 employees, representing 7% of its workforce.

• D-ID: The company will cut 22 jobs, affecting nearly a quarter of its total workforce, following the announcement of the AI startup’s strategic partnership with Microsoft.

• NASA: The company announced it will be shutting down several of its offices in accordance with Elon Musk’s DOGE, including its Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy and the DEI branch in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.

• Zonar Systems: The company has reportedly laid off some staff, according to LinkedIn posts from ex-employees.

• Wayfair: The company announced plans to let go of 340 employees in its technology division as part of a new restructuring effort.

• HPE: The company will cut 2,500 employees, or 5% of its total staff, in response to its shares sliding 19% in the first fiscal quarter.

• TikTok: The company will cut up to 300 workers in Dublin, accounting for roughly 10% of the company’s workforce in Ireland.

• LiveRamp: The company announced it will lay off 65 employees, affecting 5% of its total workforce.

• Ola Electric: The company is reportedly set to lay off over 1,000 employees and contractors in a cost-cutting effort.

• Rec Room: The company reduced its total headcount by 16% as the gaming startup shifts its focus to be “scrappier” and “more efficient.”

• ANS Commerce: The company was shut down just three years after it was acquired by Flipkart.

February Layoff Updates

• HP: The company will cut up to 2,000 jobs as part of its “Future Now” restructuring plan that hopes to save the company $300 million before the end of its fiscal year.

• GrubHub: The company announced 500 job cuts after it was sold to Wonder Group for $650 million.

• Autodesk: The company announced plans to lay off 1,350 employees, affecting 9% of its total workforce, in an attempt to reshape its GTM model.

• Google: The company is planning to cut employees in its People Operations and cloud organizations teams in a new reorganization effort.

• Nautilus: The company reduced its headcount by 25 employees, accounting for 16% of its total workforce.

• eBay: The company will reportedly cut a few dozen employees in Israel, potentially affecting 10% of its 250-person workforce in the country.

• Starbucks: The company cut 1,100 jobs in a reorganizing effort that affected its tech workers.

• Commercetools: The company laid off dozens of employees over the last few weeks, including around 10% of staff in one day, after failing to meet its sales growth targets.

• Dayforce: The company will cut roughly 5% of its current workforce in a new efficiency drive to increase profitability and growth.

• Expedia: The company laid off more employees in a new effort to cut costs, though the total number is unknown.

• Skybox Security: The company has ceased operations and has laid off its employees after selling its business and technology to Israeli cybersecurity company Tufin.

• HerMD: The company is shutting down its operations after shifting from a brick-and-mortar model to a fully virtual women’s healthcare provider.

• Zendesk: The company cut 51 jobs in its San Francisco headquarters, according to state filings with the Employment Development Department.

• Vendease: The company has cut 120 employees, affecting 44% of its total staff.

• Logically: The company reportedly laid off dozens of employees as part of a new cost-cutting effort that aims to ensure “long-term success” in the startup’s mission to curb misinformation online.

• Blue Origin: The company will lay off about 10% of its workforce, affecting more than 1,000 employees.

• Redfin: The company announced in an SEC filing that it will cut around 450 positions between February and July 2025, with a complete restructuring set to be completed in the fall, following its new partnership with Zillow.

• Sophos: The company is laying off 6% of its total workforce, the cybersecurity firm confirmed to hustlerwords.com.

• Zepz: The company will cut nearly 200 employees as it introduces redundancy measures and closes down its operations in Poland and Kenya.

• Unity: The company reportedly conducted another round of layoffs.

• JustWorks: The company cut nearly 200 employees, CEO Mike Seckler announced in a note to employees, citing “potential adverse events” like a recession or rising interest rates.

• Bird: The company cut 120 jobs, affecting roughly one-third of its total workforce, hustlerwords.com exclusively learned.

• Sprinklr: The company laid off about 500 employees, affecting 15% of its workforce, citing poor business performance.

• Sonos: The company reportedly let go of approximately 200 employees, according to The Verge.

• Workday: The company laid off 1,750 employees, as originally reported by Bloomberg and confirmed independently by hustlerwords.com.

• Okta: The company laid off 180 employees, the company confirmed to hustlerwords.com.

• Cruise: The company is laying off 50% of its workforce, including CEO Marc Whitten and several other top executives, as it prepares to shut down operations.

• Salesforce: The company is reportedly eliminating more than 1,000 jobs.

January Layoff Updates

• Cushion: The company has shut down operations, CEO Paul Kesserwani announced on LinkedIn.

• Placer.ai: The company laid off 150 employees based in the U.S., affecting roughly 18% of its total workforce, in an effort to reach profitability.

• Amazon: The company laid off dozens of workers in its communications department in order to help the company “move faster, increase ownership, strengthen our culture, and bring teams closer to customers.”

• Stripe: The company is laying off 300 people, according to a leaked memo reported by Business Insider.

• Textio: The company laid off 15 employees as the augmented writing startup undergoes a restructuring effort.

• Pocket FM: The company is cutting 75 employees in an effort to “ensure the long-term sustainability and success” of the company.

• Aurora Solar: The company is planning to cut 58 employees in response to an “ongoing macroeconomic challenges and continued uncertainty in the solar industry.”

• Meta: The company announced in an internal memo that it will cut 5% of its staff targeting “low performers” as the company prepares for “an intense year.”

• Wayfair: The company will cut up to 730 jobs, affecting 3% of its total workforce, as it plans to exit operations in Germany and focus on physical retailers.

• Pandion: The company is shutting down its operations, affecting 63 employees.

• Icon: The company is laying off 114 employees as part of a team realignment, per a new WARN notice filing, focusing its efforts on a robotic printing system.

• Altruist: The company eliminated 37 jobs, affecting roughly 10% of its total workforce, even as the company pursues “aggressive” hiring.

• Aqua Security: The company is cutting dozens of employees across its global markets as part of a strategic reorganization to increase profitability.

• SolarEdge Technologies: The company plans to lay off 400 employees globally.

• Level: The company abruptly shut down earlier this year.

This list updates regularly.