Layoffs In 2024 By Industry 4.0. The beginning of 2024 is seeing a surge in layoffs across the tech sector, with major players such as google, microsoft, and meta reducing their workforce numbers significantly. Amazon layoffs and google employee cuts at prime, twitch, google assistant and hardware engineering teams in 2024.

Activity picked up this week with sap announcing job changes or layoffs for 8,000 employees and microsoft cutting 1,900 positions in its gaming division. That is likely given the push by many businesses to trim costs.