The highest clicked hyperlink in yesterday’s version of Changelog Weekly is a little bit of a downer. It was the layoffs tracker at layoffs.fyi.
Roger Lee has been monitoring all tech layoffs since COVID-19. All the information is compiled from public studies and saved in Airtable, which offers embeddable desk listings and charts.
To date in 2022, 788 tech firms have laid off 120,699 folks. Notable, final Tuesday once I posted the tracker to Changelog Information, 757 firms had laid off 104,791 folks.
Meaning 31 firms laid off 16,908 folks prior to now week alone. An enormous portion of that complete, after all, is because of Meta performing the biggest layoff in absolute phrases of 11,000 folks. Devastating.
Our coronary heart goes out to every certainly one of you who misplaced your job this yr. And we have now excessive hopes that you just’ll get again in your toes shortly… which brings as much as our subsequent bit of reports.
