Epic Games is laying off nearly 900 employees, and selling Bandcamp
Epic says goodbye to 16 percent of its workforce
Ascendant Studios lays off almost half its employees weeks after Immortals of Aveum's launch
The game's poor sales are being blamed
Google is cutting back recruiting staff amid slower hiring pace
Mountain View is firing recruiters in order to ensure the company operates "efficiently"
Saints Row developer Volition shuts down after 30 years thanks to a $2 billion deal gone south
Studio fell victim to Embracer Group's restructuring efforts
India's outsourced coders face job extinction by 2025 due to AI advancements
According to Stability AI's CEO
CEO replaces 90% of support staff with AI, praises the system on Twitter
You can probably predict the response
As layoffs surge, tech giants still lead when it comes to high salaries
Meta and Alphabet pay especially well
Amazon employees stage walkout over return-to-office mandate, climate goals, and layoffs
The protest was streamed on Twitter
5 companies offering great employee benefits, despite the 'perkcession'
In-office perks are less in demand than employer flexibility on hybrid working
Tim Cook says Apple will only make mass layoffs as a "last resort"
Though it is implementing cost-cutting measures
Dropbox blames AI and the economy for laying off 500 people
AI indirectly takes more jobs
Job-slashing, cost-cutting Alphabet paid CEO Sundar Pichai $226 million last year
Some Google employees have to share desks
Tech employees say they were being paid to do nothing all day
Big tech companies were apparently hiring workers to keep them from joining rival firms
Disney lays off entire division responsible for its metaverse plans
Remember when companies were excited about the metaverse?
Amazon is laying off 9,000 more employees, including 400 Twitch workers
Bringing the total to 27,000
Swiss Google workers stage walkout over layoffs, offer to reduce wages to prevent cuts
Google refused the offer
Meta lays off another 13 percent of its workforce in second round of 'restructuring' cuts
Company has trimmed nearly a quarter of its staff since November
Software engineers are showing a strong preference for remote work, according to survey
Commuting to work is passé and employers are embracing the brave new world of remote work
Salesforce, which just laid off 8,000 workers, pays 'creative advisor' Matthew McConaughey $10 million per year
Not alright, alright, alright
Why it matters: Many tech industry workers have been laid off from their jobs recently, the result of over-hiring during the lockdowns and a global economic downturn. Becoming unemployed is a bitter pill, and it's even more depressing to learn that your former company pays a Hollywood actor millions of dollars a year to act as a creative adviser.
CEO quotes Martin Luther King Jr. in email announcing mass layoffs
Remember this inspirational quote while looking for a new job
Spotify to cut 6% of jobs in latest wave of tech layoffs
Spotify grew too quickly during the pandemic
These are the severance packages tech giants like Google, Meta and Amazon are offering to fired employees
Over 100,000 tech workers have lost their jobs since the year began
Google parent Alphabet is laying off 12,000 employees
Another day, another tech company making mass layoffs
Microsoft looks set to eliminate 10,000 jobs in the next few days
Another tech giant could be implementing mass layoffs