If December 2022 was already marked by a series of company layoffs, January 2023 began with even more casualties in the early days. According to the tracking platform Layoff Trackerthere were 28,096 workers who lost their jobs globally, until the 5th of this year.
The number is well above the 17,074 dismissed in the entire previous month, within the technology segment. Who led the casualties in 2022 was Meta, which went so far as to report the dismissal of 11,000 employees. Outside the United States, Turkish grocery delivery service Getir topped the list, laying off 4,480 workers. Check the data in the graph below:
Industry experts and businessmen have been pessimistic about the rest of 2023. Since the end of last year, when exits began to intensify in the market, several lines have signaled low expectations in the area.
One came from the CEO of the Indian edtech company Unacademy, Gaurav Munjal. In a post on his official Twitter account, he said he heard that 2023 will be worse than 2022 for the tech segment.
2023 will be worse than 2022 for Tech. This is what I keep hearing.
— Gaurav Munjal (@gauravmunjal) November 27, 2022
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Only for this beginning of the year, Amazon announced layoffs that affect up to 18 thousand workers. Salesforce is also another that has suffered casualties and even sent a regulatory document with the plan to cut 10% of its workforce, which totals 80 thousand people. – that is, 8,000 casualties.
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