DECRYPTION – If the majority of these companies have in common to have hired with a vengeance during the pandemic, other factors must be taken into consideration.
The announcement of a new wave of layoffs at Amazon is the latest episode in a long list of job cuts in the tech industry. From Microsoft to Meta via Uber, Airbnb or Stripe, very few American heavyweights have not made a clean cut in their workforce in recent months. According to the layoffs.fyi site, which takes these announcements into account, more than 150,000 layoffs in tech companies took place in 2022, including 120,000 on American soil alone.
If Amazon cuts the most jobs – 18,000 -, it is followed by Meta (11,000), Salesforce, which announced on Wednesday that it would part with nearly 8,000 employees and close several offices, Booking (4,300), Cisco (4,100), Twitter ( 4000), Uber (3700), Peloton (2800)… We can add to this long litany: 1200 jobs at Snap (including the 70 employees of its French subsidiary Zenly), or even 1900 at Instacart, 1000 at Microsoft or 2000 at Crypto .com. According to
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