March 26, 2024

• Google: Began 2024 with layoffs affecting more than 1,000 employees across various units like hardware, engineering, and digital assistants​​.
• Amazon: Announced a new round of layoffs impacting hundreds of employees from its Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios divisions in early 2024​​.
• Twitch: Plans to reduce its workforce by 35%, affecting more than 500 employees, were announced as part of a strategic realignment​​.
• Discord: Announced it was cutting 17% of its workforce, totaling 170 employees, as part of operational streamlining​​.
• YouTube: Announced around 100 job cuts from its operations and creator management teams as part of a wider restructuring within Alphabet group​​.

Additional significant layoffs in the tech sector with specified dates include:

• Unity: On January 8, 2024, Unity laid off 1,800 employees, about 25% of its workforce​​.
• Riot Games: On January 22, 2024, announced layoffs affecting 530 employees, about 11% of their workforce​​.
• Wayfair: On January 19, 2024, laid off 1,650 employees, about 13% of its global workforce​​.
• Flipkart: On January 8, 2024, saw 1,100 employees, or about 5% of its workforce, being let go​​.
• SolarEdge: Announced on January 21, 2024, layoffs of 900 employees, which is about 16% of its workforce​​.

Earlier Meta (Facebook): Announced on March 14, 2023, plans to cut 10,000 employees and leave 5,000 roles unfilled, in addition to about 11,000 layoffs from the end of the previous year​