Tech Layoffs Continue to Impact the Industry in 2025
The tech industry’s turbulent times continue into 2025, with significant layoffs impacting numerous companies. According to Layoffs.fyi, a tracker of independent layoffs, over 150,000 job cuts were recorded across 549 companies last year. The trend persists, as this year, 22,000 workers have been affected. Of this number, a staggering 16,084 cuts were made in February alone.
This tracker aims to provide an overview of the cutbacks and analyze the impact on innovation across all tech companies. The increased embrace of AI and automation further highlights the human impact of layoffs. This article provides a regularly updated list of known tech layoffs that have occurred in 2025.
February 2025 Layoffs
- 16,084 employees laid off (See all February 2025 Tech Layoffs)
January 2025 Layoffs
- 6,003 employees laid off (See all January 2025 Tech Layoffs)
March 2025
- Block: Let go of 931 employees, about 8% of its workforce, a restructuring move reported to TechCrunch.
- Brightcove: Laid off 198 employees, which constituted about two-thirds of its U.S. workforce, according to a media report. This happened about a month after its acquisition by Bending Spoons, an Italian app developer, for $233 million. In December 2023, Brightcove had a global workforce of 600 employees, with 300 in the U.S.
- Acxiom: Reported to have laid off 130 employees, or 3.5% of its total workforce of 3,700 people. Acxiom is owned by IPG, and the news came just a day after IPG and Omnicom Group shareholders approved the companies’ potential merger.
- Sequoia Capital: Plans to close its Washington, D.C., office and let go its policy team by the end of March, TechCrunch confirmed. The office opened five years ago to help deepen its connection with policymakers. Three full-time employees are anticipated to be affected, per Forbes.
- Siemens: Announced plans to cut around 5,600 jobs globally in its automation and electric-vehicle charging businesses to improve competitiveness.
- HelloFresh: Reportedly laying off 273 employees, closing its distribution center in Grand Prairie, Texas, shifting operations to another site in Irving to manage volume in the region.
- Otorio: Has cut 45 employees, over half its workforce, following its acquisition by cybersecurity company Armis for $120 million in March.
- ActiveFence: Will reportedly reduce 22 employees, about 7% of its workforce. Most affected are based in Israel as the company undergoes streamlining. The New York- and Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm raised $100 million at a valuation of roughly $500 million in 2021.
- D-ID: Will cut 22 jobs, affecting almost a quarter of its total workforce. This came after the AI startup announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft.
- NASA: Announced multiple office closures. This action follows Elon Musk’s DOGE, including shutting down its Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy and the DEI branch in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.
- Zonar Systems: Has reportedly laid off some staff according to former employee posts on LinkedIn. The company has not confirmed these reports, and the exact number of affected workers is unknown.
- Wayfair: Announced plans to let go of 340 employees in its technology division as part of a new restructuring effort.
- HPE: Will cut 2,500 employees, or 5% of the total staff, in response to its shares sliding 19% in the first fiscal quarter.
- TikTok: Will cut up to 300 workers in Dublin, accounting for approximately 10% of its workforce in Ireland.
- LiveRamp: Announced it will lay off 65 employees, impacting 5% of its total workforce.
- Ola Electric: Reportedly set to lay off over 1,000 employees and contractors in a cost-cutting effort. This marks the company’s second round in just five months.
- Rec Room: Reduced its total headcount by 16% as the gaming startup shifts its focus to be “scrappier” and “more efficient.”
- ANS Commerce: Shut down just three years after its acquisition by Flipkart. Details on how many employees were affected are not available.
February 2025
- HP: Will cut up to 2,000 jobs as part of its “Future Now” restructuring plan, aiming to save the company $300 million before the end of its fiscal year.
- GrubHub: Announced 500 job cuts after it was sold to Wonder Group for $650 million. The cuts represent over 20% of the former workforce.
- Autodesk: Announced plans to lay off 1,350 employees, impacting 9% of its total workforce, in an effort to reshape its GTM model. The company is also implementing reductions in its facilities, though it does not plan to close any offices.
- Google: Is planning to cut employees in its People Operations and cloud organizations teams in a new reorganization effort. The company is offering a voluntary exit program to U.S.-based People Operations employees.
- Nautilus: Reduced its headcount by 25 employees, accounting for 16% of its total workforce. The company plans to release a commercial version of its proteome analysis platform in 2026.
- eBay: Will reportedly cut a few dozen employees in Israel, potentially affecting 10% of its 250-person workforce in the country.
- Starbucks: Cut 1,100 jobs in a reorganizing effort that affected its tech workers. The coffee chain will now outsource some tech work to third-party employees.
- Commercetools: 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. The “headless commerce” platform raised money at a $1.9 billion valuation just a few years ago.
- Dayforce: Will cut about 5% of its current workforce in a new efficiency drive to increase profitability and growth.
- Expedia: Laid off more employees in a new aim to cut costs, though the total number is unknown. Last year, the travel giant cut about 1,500 roles in its Product & Technology division.
- Skybox Security: Has ceased operations and laid off employees after selling its business and technology to Israeli cybersecurity company Tufin. The cuts impact roughly 300 people.
- HerMD: Is shutting down its operations amid “ongoing challenges in healthcare.” The number of employees affected is unclear. In 2023, the women’s healthcare startup raised $18 million to fund its expansion.
- Zendesk: Cut 51 jobs in its San Francisco headquarters, according to state filings with the Employment Development Department. The SaaS startup reduced its headcount by 8% in 2023.
- Vendease: Has cut 120 employees, affecting 44% of its total staff. It is the Y Combinator-backed Nigerian startup’s second layoff round in just five months.
- Logically: 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: Will lay off about 10% of its workforce, impacting over 1,000 employees. The cuts will largely affect positions in engineering and program management jobs, according to an email to staff obtained by CNN.
- Redfin: Announced in an SEC filing that it will cut around 450 positions between February and July 2025, with a complete restructuring to be finished in the fall, following its new partnership with Zillow.
- Sophos: Is laying off 6% of its total workforce. The cuts came less than two weeks after Sophos acquired Secureworks for $859 million.
- Zepz: Will cut nearly 200 employees as it introduces redundancy measures and closes its operations in Poland and Kenya.
- Unity: Reportedly conducted another round of layoffs. The number of employees affected is unknown.
- JustWorks: Cut nearly 200 employees in a note to employees, citing “potential adverse events” like a recession or rising interest rates.
- Bird: Cut 120 jobs, or roughly one-third of its total staff, TechCrunch exclusively learned. The move comes just a year after the Dutch startup cut 90 employees following its rebrand.
- Sprinklr: Laid off about 500 employees, or 15% of its workforce, citing poor business performance. These new cuts followed two earlier layoff rounds that had affected about 200 employees.
- Sonos: Reportedly let go of about 200 employees, according to The Verge. The company had already cut 100 employees in August 2024.
- Workday: Laid off 1,750 employees, as originally reported by Bloomberg and independently confirmed by TechCrunch. The cuts affect about 8.5% of the enterprise HR platform’s total head count.
- Okta: Laid off 180 employees. The cuts occurred just over one year after the access and identity management giant let go of 400 workers.
- Cruise: Is laying off 50% of its workforce, including CEO Marc Whitten and other top executives, as it prepares to shut down operations. What is left of the autonomous vehicle company will move under General Motors.
- Salesforce: Is reportedly eliminating over 1,000 jobs. The cuts come as the company is actively recruiting and hiring workers to sell new AI products.
January 2025
- Cushion: Shut down operations, according to an announcement on LinkedIn by CEO Paul Kesserwani. The fintech startup’s post-money valuation in 2022 was $82.4 million, according to PitchBook.
- Placer.ai: Laid off 150 employees in the U.S., affecting roughly 18% of its total workforce, as part of an effort to achieve profitability.
- Amazon: Laid off dozens of workers in its communications department. The company said that this was to help it “move faster, increase ownership, strengthen our culture, and bring teams closer to customers.”
- Stripe: Is laying off 300 people, according to a leaked memo reported by Business Insider. However, the memo also stated that the fintech giant is planning to increase its total headcount by 17%.
- Textio: Laid off 15 employees as the augmented writing startup undergoes a restructuring effort.
- Pocket FM: Is cutting 75 employees to “ensure the long-term sustainability and success” of the company. The audio company previously cut 200 writers in July 2024 months following its partnership with ElevenLabs.
- Aurora Solar: Is planning to cut 58 employees due to “ongoing macroeconomic challenges and continued uncertainty in the solar industry.”
- Meta: Announced in an internal memo that it will cut 5% of its staff, targeting “low performers” as the company prepares for “an intense year.” As of its latest quarterly report, Meta currently has more than 72,000 employees.
- Wayfair: Will cut up to 730 jobs, impacting 3% of its total workforce, as it plans to exit operations in Germany and focus on physical retailers.
- Pandion: Is shutting down its operations, impacting 63 employees. The delivery startup stated that employees will be paid through January 15 without severance.
- Icon: 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: Eliminated 37 jobs, impacting roughly 10% of its total workforce, even as the company pursues “aggressive” hiring.
- Aqua Security: Is cutting dozens of employees across its global markets as part of a strategic reorganization to increase profitability.
- SolarEdge Technologies: Plans to lay off 400 employees globally. That is the company’s fourth layoff round since January 2024 as the solar industry faces a downturn.
- Level: The fintech startup, launched in 2018, abruptly shut down earlier this year. According to an email from CEO Paul Aaron, the closure follows an unsuccessful attempt to find a buyer, though Employer.com has a new offer under consideration to acquire the company post-shutdown.
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