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Layoffs are on the menu again.

You can track layoffs through https://layoffs.fyi

I know a site like this can never be accurate, but the non-tech company I work for had a significant reduction in tech workers and isn't on the list. I really think that sound count.

layoffs.fyi says "72 tech companies w/ layoffs" right at the top, big and bold - it's pretty clear it's only tracking tech companies.

Yes, which means it isn't an accurate reflection of tech layoffs.

And my car isn't an accurate reflection of a helicopter. Neither of them are purporting to be something they're not.

More to the point, tracking "tech layoffs within non-tech companies" is impossible with public data because that information is rarely broken out.

I don’t disagree, all I was doing was reminding people it doesn’t show the whole picture.

Things are worse than many think.

> More to the point, tracking "tech layoffs within non-tech companies" is impossible

Which begs the question, what is a tech company anymore or a non-tech company?

Aside from the fact that they use technology (but everyone uses technology), ebay is not a tech company. They don't sell technology product.

every company rebranded to tech like they are doing with AI now

Checkout WARNtracker.com which tracks US layoffs from all companies through mandatory government reporting (for layoffs above a certain size)!

For folks who are not in tech, check out WARNtracker.com which tracks US layoffs from all companies through mandatory government reporting from the WARN act of 1988, which requires layoffs above a certain size to be reported to state governments.

A good complement for Layoffs.fyi (Sometimes the source of a layoffs.fyi entry will be an article written by a journalist who saw the WARN notice on WARNTracker)

Or https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

They don't seem as bad as last year around the same months.

Are there any stats on how many people are being hired?

There are stats on the number of open jobs https://www.trueup.io/job-trend

It's not as bad as last year, but if you look at the layoff.fyi graph that goes back further (https://layoffs.fyi/#tabs_desc_471_2 ), I remember feeling that around September of last year that the huge amount of layoffs from late 22/early 23 had stabilized: a lot of my dev colleagues on LinkedIn that were previously laid off had found new jobs (but non-IC-eng roles definitely didn't fare as well), and there were even reports of companies that had had big layoffs rehiring.

So I'd say I was surprised by the big layoff numbers from the likes of big names like Google, Discord, Twitch, Instagram, etc. this January. To me it had seemed like we had already hit bottom WRT layoffs but apparently not.

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