Media has given saturation coverage to Federal employees who were laid off during the prior week.
Some other layoffs you did not hear about:
- HP fired an additional 2,000 workers (above what it already laid off)
- Meta (FB, IG) fired 3,700 workers
- Autodesk fired 1,350 workers (9% of staff)
- Joann’s fabrics and crafts announced it is going out of business and closing 800 stores nationwide and laying off all of its staff. The retailer had employed 19,000.
- Red Robin will close 70 stores
- Kohl’s will close 27 stores.
- Grubhub is laying off 500 employees or about 20% of its staff.
- Microchip Technology will layoff 2000.
- Technicolor lays off hundreds of workers and will be shutting down operations, which may result in the loss of 4,500 jobs, globally.
- Guggenheim Museum lays off 20 people or 7% of staff, due to attendance in decline, and is their 3rd lay off in 3 years.
- Southern Illinois University will layoff an unspecified number due to declining enrollment
- Advance Auto parts laying off 1,600 workers just in CA, probably triple that as they close stores nationwide National auto parts retailer closing all California stores
This is over 7 days.
According to Layoffs.fyi, the tech industry fired 264,200 workers in 2023 and 152,104 in 2024: Tech layoffs this year: A timeline – Computerworld
