A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

The tech layoff question is inactive kicking successful 2025. Last twelvemonth saw more than 150,000 occupation cuts across 549 companies, according to autarkic layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So acold this year, much than 22,000 workers person been the unfortunate of reductions crossed the tech industry, with a staggering 16,084 cuts taking spot successful February alone.

We’re tracking layoffs successful the tech manufacture successful 2025 truthful you tin spot the trajectory of the cutbacks and recognize the interaction connected innovation crossed each types of companies. As businesses proceed to clasp AI and automation, this tracker serves arsenic a reminder of the quality interaction of layoffs — and what could beryllium astatine involvement with accrued innovation.

Below you’ll find a broad database of each the known tech layoffs that person occurred successful 2025, which volition beryllium updated regularly. If you person a extremity connected a layoff, interaction america here. If you similar to stay anonymous, you tin interaction america here.

• May 2025
• April 2025: More than 23,400 employees laid disconnected — see each April 2025 tech layoffs
• March 2025: 8,834 employees laid disconnected — see each March 2025 tech layoffs
• February 2025: 16,234 employees laid disconnected — see each February 2025 tech layoffs
• January 2025: 2,403 employees laid disconnected — see each January 2025 tech layoffs

May

CrowdStrike

Is laying disconnected 5% of its planetary workforce, oregon astir 500 people. The institution said the layoffs were portion of “a strategical program (the ‘Plan’) to germinate its operations to output greater efficiencies arsenic the Company continues to standard its concern with absorption and subject to conscionable its extremity of $10 cardinal successful ending [Annual Recurring Revenue]” successful its 8-K filing.

April

Expedia

Is laying disconnected astir 3% of its employees arsenic portion of its restructuring. The occupation cuts volition chiefly impact midlevel positions successful the merchandise and exertion teams. The latest circular of layoffs comes aft the institution fto spell of hundreds of employees from its selling squad globally successful aboriginal March.

Cars24

Has reduced its workforce by astir 200 employees successful its merchandise and exertion divisions arsenic portion of a restructuring measure. The India-based e-commerce level for pre-owned vehicles provides a scope of services similar buying and selling pre-owned cars, financing, insurance, driver-on-demand, and more. In 2023, the SoftBank-backed startup raised $450 cardinal astatine a valuation of $3.3 billion.

Meta

Is letting spell of implicit 100 employees successful its Reality Labs division, which manages virtual world and wearable technology, according to The Verge. The occupation cuts impact employees processing VR experiences for Meta’s Quest headsets and unit moving connected hardware operations to streamline akin enactment betwixt the 2 teams.

Intel

Announced its plan to laic disconnected much than 21,000 employees, oregon astir 20% of its workforce, successful April. The determination comes up of Intel’s Q1 net telephone helmed by recently appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took implicit from longtime main Pat Gelsinger past year.

GM

Is laying disconnected 200 radical astatine its Factory Zero successful Detroit and Hamtramck installation successful Michigan, which produces GM’s electrical vehicles. The cuts travel amid the EV slowdown and is not caused by tariffs, according to a report.

Zopper

Has reportedly fto spell of astir 100 employees since the commencement of 2025. Earlier this week, astir 50 employees from the tech and merchandise teams were fto spell successful the latest circular of occupation cuts. The India-based insurtech startup has raised a full of $125 cardinal to date.

Turo

Will trim its workforce by 150 positions pursuing its determination not to proceed with its IPO, per Bloomberg. The San Francisco-based car rental startup, which had astir 1,000 unit successful 2024, said the layoffs volition bolster its semipermanent maturation plans during economical uncertainty.

GupShup

Laid disconnected astir 200 employees to amended ratio and profitability. It’s the startup’s 2nd circular of layoffs successful 5 months, pursuing the occupation cuts of astir 300 employees successful December. The conversational AI company, backed by Tiger Global and Fidelity, was past valued astatine $1.4 cardinal successful 2021. The startup is based successful San Francisco and operates successful India.

Forto

Has reportedly eliminated 200 jobs, affecting astir one-third of its employees. The German logistics startup reduced a important fig of income staff.

Wicresoft

Will halt its operations successful China, affecting astir 2,000 employees. The determination came aft Microsoft decided to extremity outsourcing after-sales enactment to Wicresoft amid expanding commercialized tensions. Wicresoft, Microsoft’s archetypal associated task successful China, was founded successful 2022 and operates successful the U.S., Europe, and Japan. It has implicit 10,000 employees.

Five9

Plans to chopped 123 jobs, affecting astir 4% of its workforce, according to a study by MarketWatch. The bundle institution prioritizes cardinal strategical areas similar artificial quality for profitable growth.

Google

Has laid disconnected hundreds of employees successful its platforms and devices division, which covers Android, Pixel phones, the Chrome browser, and more, according to The Information.

Microsoft

Is contemplating further layoffs that could hap by May, Business Insider reported, citing anonymous sources. The institution is said to beryllium discussing reducing the fig of mediate managers and non-coders successful a bid to summation the ratio of programmers to merchandise managers.

Automattic

The WordPress.com developer is laying disconnected 16% of its workforce crossed departments. Before the layoffs, the company’s website showed it had 1,744 employees, truthful much than 270 unit whitethorn person been laid off.

Canva

Has fto spell of 10 to 12 method writers astir 9 months aft telling its employees to usage generative AI tools wherever possible. The company, which had astir 5,500 unit successful 2024, was valued astatine $26 billion aft a secondary banal merchantability successful 2024.

March

Northvolt

Has laid disconnected 2,800 employees, affecting 62% of its full staff. The layoffs travel weeks aft the embattled Swedish artillery shaper filed for bankruptcy.

Block

Let spell of 931 employees, astir 8% of its workforce, arsenic portion of a reorganization, according to an interior email seen by TechCrunch. Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and CEO of the fintech company, wrote successful the email that the layoffs were not for fiscal reasons oregon to regenerate workers with AI.

Brightcove

Has laid disconnected 198 employees, who marque up astir two-thirds of its U.S. workforce, per a media report. The layoff comes a period aft the institution was acquired by Bending Spoons, an Italian app developer, for $233 million. Brightcove had 600 employees worldwide, with 300 successful the U.S., arsenic of December 2023.

Acxiom

Has reportedly laid disconnected 130 employees, oregon 3.5% of its full workforce of 3,700 people. Acxiom is owned by IPG, and the quality comes conscionable a time aft IPG and Omnicom Group shareholders approved the companies’ imaginable merger.

Sequoia Capital

Plans to adjacent its bureau successful Washington, D.C., and fto spell of its argumentation squad determination by the extremity of March, TechCrunch has confirmed. Sequoia opened its Washington bureau 5 years agone to deepen its narration with policymakers. Three full-time employees are expected to beryllium affected, per Forbes.

Siemens

Announced plans to fto spell of astir 5,600 jobs globally successful its automation and electric-vehicle charging businesses arsenic portion of efforts to amended competitiveness.

HelloFresh

Is reportedly laying disconnected 273 employees, closing its organisation halfway successful Grand Prairie, Texas, and consolidating to different tract successful Irving to negociate the measurement successful the region.

Otorio

Has chopped 45 employees, much than fractional of its workforce, aft being acquired by cybersecurity institution Armis for $120 cardinal successful March.

ActiveFence

Will reportedly trim 22 employees, representing 7% of its workforce. Most of those affected are based successful Israel arsenic the institution undergoes a streamlining process. The New York- and Tel Aviv-headquartered cybersecurity steadfast has raised $100 cardinal astatine a valuation of astir $500 million successful 2021.

D-ID

Will chopped 22 jobs, affecting astir a 4th of its full workforce, pursuing the announcement of the AI startup’s strategical partnership with Microsoft.

NASA

Announced it volition beryllium shutting down respective of its offices successful accordance with Elon Musk’s DOGE, including its Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy and the DEI subdivision successful the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.

Zonar Systems

Has reportedly laid disconnected immoderate staff, according to LinkedIn posts from ex-employees. The institution has not confirmed the layoffs, and it is presently chartless however galore workers were affected.

Wayfair

Announced plans to let spell of 340 employees successful its exertion part arsenic portion of a caller restructuring effort.

HPE

Will chopped 2,500 employees, oregon 5% of its full staff, successful effect to its shares sliding 19% successful the archetypal fiscal quarter.

TikTok

Will chopped up to 300 workers successful Dublin, accounting for astir 10% of the company’s workforce successful Ireland. 

LiveRamp

Announced it volition lay disconnected 65 employees, affecting 5% of its full workforce.

Ola Electric

Is reportedly acceptable to laic disconnected over 1,000 employees and contractors successful a cost-cutting effort. It’s the 2nd circular of cuts for the institution successful conscionable 5 months.

Rec Room

Reduced its total headcount by 16% arsenic the gaming startup shifts its absorption to beryllium “scrappier” and “more efficient.”

ANS Commerce

Was shut down conscionable 3 years aft it was acquired by Flipkart. It is presently chartless however galore employees were affected.

February

HP

Will chopped up to 2,000 jobs arsenic portion of its “Future Now” restructuring program that hopes to prevention the institution $300 cardinal earlier the extremity of its fiscal year.

GrubHub

Announced 500 occupation cuts aft it was sold to Wonder Group for $650 million. The fig of cuts affected much than 20% of its erstwhile workforce. 

Autodesk

Announced plans to laic disconnected 1,350 employees, affecting 9% of its full workforce, successful an effort to reshape its GTM model. The institution is besides making reductions successful its facilities, though it does not program to adjacent immoderate offices.

Google

Is readying to chopped employees successful its People Operations and unreality organizations teams successful a caller reorganization effort. The institution is offering a voluntary exit programme to U.S.-based People Operations employees.

Nautilus

Reduced its headcount by 25 employees, accounting for 16% of its full workforce. The institution is readying to merchandise a commercialized mentation of its proteome investigation level successful 2026.

eBay

Will reportedly cut a fewer twelve employees successful Israel, perchance affecting 10% of its 250-person workforce successful the country.

Starbucks

Cut 1,100 jobs successful a reorganizing effort that affected its tech workers. The java concatenation volition present outsource immoderate tech enactment to third-party employees.

Commercetools

Laid disconnected dozens of employees implicit the past fewer weeks, including astir 10% of unit successful 1 day, aft failing to conscionable its income maturation targets. The “headless commerce” level raised wealth astatine a $1.9 cardinal valuation conscionable a fewer years ago.

Dayforce

Will chopped roughly 5% of its existent workforce successful a caller ratio thrust to summation profitability and growth.

Expedia

Laid disconnected much employees successful a caller effort to chopped costs, though the full fig is unknown. Last year, the question elephantine cut astir 1,500 roles successful its Product & Technology division.

Skybox Security

Has ceased operations and has laid disconnected its employees aft selling its concern and exertion to Israeli cybersecurity institution Tufin. The cuts impact astir 300 people. 

HerMD

Is shutting down its operations amid “ongoing challenges successful healthcare.” It’s unclear the fig of employees affected. In 2023, the women’s healthcare startup raised $18 million to money its expansion.

Zendesk

Cut 51 jobs successful its San Francisco headquarters, according to authorities filings with the Employment Development Department. The SaaS startup antecedently reduced its headcount by 8% successful 2023.

Vendease

Has cut 120 employees, affecting 44% of its full staff. It’s the Y Combinator-backed Nigerian startup’s 2nd layoff circular successful conscionable 5 months.

Logically

Reportedly laid disconnected dozens of employees arsenic portion of a caller cost-cutting effort that aims to guarantee “long-term success” successful the startup’s ngo to curb misinformation online.

Blue Origin

Will laic disconnected astir 10% of its workforce, affecting more than 1,000 employees. According to an email to unit obtained by CNN, the cuts volition mostly person an interaction connected positions successful engineering and programme management. 

Redfin

Announced successful an SEC filing that it volition cut astir 450 positions betwixt February and July 2025, with a implicit restructuring acceptable to beryllium completed successful the fall, pursuing its caller concern with Zillow.

Sophos

Is laying disconnected 6% of its full workforce, the cybersecurity steadfast confirmed to TechCrunch. The cuts travel little than 2 weeks aft Sophos acquired Secureworks for $859 million.

Zepz

Will chopped nearly 200 employees arsenic it introduces redundancy measures and closes down its operations successful Poland and Kenya.

Unity

Reportedly conducted different circular of layoffs. It’s chartless however galore employees were affected.

JustWorks

Cut astir 200 employees, CEO Mike Seckler announced in a enactment to employees, citing “potential adverse events” similar a recession oregon rising involvement rates.

Bird

Cut 120 jobs, affecting astir one-third of its full workforce, TechCrunch exclusively learned. The determination comes conscionable a twelvemonth aft the Dutch startup cut 90 employees pursuing its rebrand.

Sprinklr

Laid disconnected about 500 employees, affecting 15% of its workforce, citing mediocre concern performance. The caller cuts travel 2 earlier layoff rounds for the institution that affected astir 200 employees.

Sonos

Reportedly fto spell of approximately 200 employees, according to The Verge. The institution antecedently cut 100 employees arsenic portion of a layoff circular successful August 2024. 

Workday

Laid disconnected 1,750 employees, arsenic primitively reported by Bloomberg and confirmed independently by TechCrunch. The cuts impact astir 8.5% of the endeavor HR platform’s full headcount.

Okta

Laid disconnected 180 employees, the institution confirmed to TechCrunch. The cuts travel conscionable implicit 1 twelvemonth aft the entree and individuality absorption elephantine let spell of 400 workers.

Cruise

Is laying disconnected 50% of its workforce, including CEO Marc Whitten and respective different apical executives, arsenic it prepares to unopen down operations. What remains of the autonomous conveyance institution volition determination nether General Motors.

Salesforce

Is reportedly eliminating more than 1,000 jobs. The cuts travel arsenic the elephantine is actively recruiting and hiring workers to merchantability caller AI products.

January

Cushion

Has unopen down operations, CEO Paul Kesserwani announced connected LinkedIn. The fintech startup’s post-money valuation in 2022 was $82.4 million, according to PitchBook.

Placer.ai

Laid disconnected 150 employees based successful the U.S., affecting astir 18% of its full workforce, successful an effort to scope profitability.

Amazon

Laid disconnected dozens of workers successful its communications department successful bid to assistance the institution “move faster, summation ownership, fortify our culture, and bring teams person to customers.”

Stripe

Is laying disconnected 300 people, according to a leaked memo reported by Business Insider. However, according to the memo, the fintech elephantine is readying to turn its full headcount by 17%. 

Textio

Laid disconnected 15 employees arsenic the augmented penning startup undergoes a restructuring effort.

Pocket FM

Is cutting 75 employees successful an effort to “ensure the semipermanent sustainability and success” of the company. The audio institution past chopped 200 writers successful July 2024 months aft partnering with ElevenLabs.

Aurora Solar

Is readying to cut 58 employees successful effect to an “ongoing macroeconomic challenges and continued uncertainty successful the star industry.”

Meta

Announced successful an interior memo that it volition cut 5% of its staff targeting “low performers” arsenic the institution prepares for “an aggravated year.” As of its latest quarterly report, Meta presently has much than 72,000 employees.

Wayfair

Will chopped up to 730 jobs, affecting 3% of its full workforce, arsenic it plans to exit operations successful Germany and absorption connected carnal retailers.

Pandion

Is shutting down its operations, affecting 63 employees. The transportation startup said employees volition beryllium paid done January 15 without severance.

Icon

Is laying disconnected 114 employees arsenic portion of a squad realignment, per a caller WARN announcement filing, focusing its efforts connected a robotic printing system.

Altruist

Eliminated 37 jobs, affecting astir 10% of its full workforce, adjacent arsenic the institution pursues “aggressive” hiring.

Aqua Security

Is cutting dozens of employees crossed its planetary markets arsenic portion of a strategical reorganization to summation profitability.

SolarEdge Technologies

Plans to laic disconnected 400 employees globally. It’s the company’s 4th layoff circular since January 2024 arsenic the star manufacture arsenic a full faces a downturn.

Level

The fintech startup, founded successful 2018, abruptly unopen down earlier this year. Per an email from CEO Paul Aaron, the closure follows an unsuccessful effort to find a buyer, though Employer.com has a caller connection nether consideration to get the institution post-shutdown.

This database updates regularly.

On April 24, 2025, we corrected the fig of layoffs that happened successful March.