Skip to content

Sharemint

Menu
  • Home
  • Stock Market
    • Stock Market Basics
    • Initial Public Offering
    • Fundamental Analysis
    • Brokers
  • Stock Market Calculators
    • EMI Calculator
    • SIP Calculator
    • Stock Average Calculator
    • PPF Calculator
    • Compound Interest Calculator
    • Zerodha Brokerage Calculator
    • PPP Calculator
    • FD Calculator
  • IPO
    • Upcoming IPOs
    • Listed IPOs
  • Finance
  • Business
  • Stock Market Live
  • Earnings
Menu

layoff by tech sector

Massive Layoffs in Tech Sector Due to This Reasons

Posted on February 22, 2023

Layoffs done by big Tech Companies in last few months shock tech employees and students but why technology companies like google, amazon, microsoft fired employees.

Sundar Pichai pointed towards this in the letter he sent to employees after announcing termination of 12,000 people. He said, “Over the past two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.”

Layoffs Main Reasons

Top companies layoffs due to many reasons, here are some of the.

Recession In Economy

A recession begins when the economy reaches a peak of activity and ends when the economy reaches on its weak conditions. Recession was main reason behind huge layoffs.

How recession influence big companies to do layoff ? Due to covid pandemic IT sector was in demand because everyone shift in digital mode and now condition is normal but demand is low and also due to high interest rates company fired employees hired during covid pandemic demands.

Pressure from Investors

Fund managers and investors in big tech companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitter, etc. are pushing company management to make quick decisions to counter the slowdown in growth in the companies.

Investor get negative returns on their investments so they force company’s management to fired employees. From last one and half years investors get negative 20-35 percent returns.

Bottom Line was in Trouble

Due to less demand and high interest rate economic activities slow down and because of slow down companies bottom line is falling or negatives.

See also  Persistent Systems Q3 Results, What Brokerage Expect From Q3

Bottom line means net profit due to falling net profits and high employees salary company need to fired them for cost reductions.

Layoff in tech sectors
Layoff in tech sector due to economic slow down

Financial Tools :- Stock Average Calculator

Layoffs Which Companies Fired Most Employees

Amazon :- Amazon tech giant announced to cut 19000 employees and this is biggest layoffs in IT sector ever.

“This year’s review has been more difficult given the uncertain economy and that we’ve hired rapidly over the last several years,” says by amazon CEO.

Microsoft :- Nadella also hinted that Microsoft overhired employees during the pandemic and that has led to some roles being redundant.

“We’re living through times of significant change, and as I meet with customers and partners, a few things are clear. First, as we saw customers accelerate their digital spend during the pandemic, we’re now seeing them optimize their digital spend to do more with less.

Nadella write letter to employees and said good bye to 10000 techies. Microsoft also fired some good employees due to profit and investor force reasons.


Recent Articles

  • Top 5 Large Cap Stocks To Buy For Multibagger Returns
  • Why Groww App is Best For Research Than Other Brokers ?
  • ICICI Bank Q4 Results Date 2023, Will Share Bounce Back ?
  • STT Hike on Future and Option Trading by 25% from this Date
  • Best Swing Trading Strategy that Works for Everyone
  • Mphasis Q4 Results Date 2023, Will Share Outperform in Q4 ?
  • Ksolves India Q4 Results Date 2023, Ksolves Interim Dividend
  • ABB India Q4 Results Date and Time 2023, Brokerage Analysis

Stock Market Calculators

  • FD Calculator
  • Stock Average Calculator
  • EMI Calculator
  • PPF Calculator
  • Compound Interest Calculator
  • PPP Calculator
  • Zerodha Brokerage Calculator
  • SIP Calculator

Latest Articles

  • Top 5 Large Cap Stocks To Buy For Multibagger Returns
  • Why Groww App is Best For Research Than Other Brokers ?
  • ICICI Bank Q4 Results Date 2023, Will Share Bounce Back ?
  • STT Hike on Future and Option Trading by 25% from this Date
  • Best Swing Trading Strategy that Works for Everyone

sharemint

we provide detail knowledge about stock market, finance, business, investment, fundamental analysis, etc

Stock Market Calculators

  • FD Calculator
  • Stock Average Calculator
  • EMI Calculator
  • PPF Calculator
  • Compound Interest Calculator
  • PPP Calculator
  • Zerodha Brokerage Calculator
  • SIP Calculator

Useful links

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • About Us
  • Advertise With Us
  • Contact Us
©2023 Sharemint