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Layoffs, furloughs, restructuring, hiring contractions, and technology-sector job conditions.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026784 stories
Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce↗ reuters.com · HN · 998 comments · 1356 points · May 07, 2026
Oracle slashes 30k jobs↗ rollingout.com · HN · 853 comments · 919 points · Mar 31, 2026
Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions↗ twitter.com · HN · 687 comments · 1031 points · Mar 06, 2026
Layoffs at Block↗ twitter.com · HN · 1080 comments · 910 points · Feb 26, 2026
Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team↗ github.com · HN · 840 comments · 1457 points · Jan 07, 2026
2025896 stories
Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division↗ theverge.com · HN · 484 comments · 530 points · Oct 22, 2025
Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year↗ cnbc.com · HN · 282 comments · 578 points · Aug 27, 2025
NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions↗ science.org · HN · 767 comments · 570 points · May 09, 2025
A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work↗ mertbulan.com · HN · 961 comments · 1041 points · Jan 27, 2025
Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs↗ axios.com · HN · 1744 comments · 1189 points · Jan 10, 2025
20241,148 stories
Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction↗ blog.dropbox.com · HN · 1048 comments · 518 points · Oct 30, 2024
The Layoff↗ xeiaso.net · HN · 167 comments · 452 points · Feb 18, 2024
Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat↗ rachelbythebay.com · HN · 378 comments · 688 points · Feb 09, 2024
Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees↗ theverge.com · HN · 369 comments · 457 points · Jan 11, 2024
Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions↗ nytimes.com · HN · 1265 comments · 862 points · Jan 11, 2024
20231,655 stories
Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts↗ cnbc.com · HN · 71 comments · 176 points · Mar 20, 2023
Meta to Layoff 10k Employees↗ about.fb.com · HN · 57 comments · 128 points · Mar 14, 2023
Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off ~26% staff↗ status.twilio.com · HN · 112 comments · 231 points · Feb 17, 2023
Microsoft to lay off 10k workers↗ blogs.microsoft.com · HN · 69 comments · 126 points · Jan 18, 2023
Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees↗ reuters.com · HN · 87 comments · 181 points · Jan 17, 2023
20221,209 stories
Meta lays off 11,000 people↗ about.fb.com · HN · 1977 comments · 2048 points · Nov 09, 2022
Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun↗ techcrunch.com · HN · 2117 comments · 1039 points · Nov 04, 2022
Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce↗ stripe.com · HN · 1217 comments · 997 points · Nov 03, 2022
'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm↗ business-standard.com · HN · 1103 comments · 730 points · Aug 10, 2022
Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 353 comments · 1633 points · Jun 02, 2022
2021251 stories
Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff↗ marketwatch.com · HN · 458 comments · 589 points · Nov 02, 2021
I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern↗ peachesnstink.com · HN · 517 comments · 615 points · Jun 25, 2021
“Great resignation” wave coming for companies↗ axios.com · HN · 1035 comments · 824 points · Jun 14, 2021
“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”↗ twitter.com · HN · 1964 comments · 1366 points · Apr 30, 2021
Fry's Electronics is closing all stores↗ twitter.com · HN · 308 comments · 488 points · Feb 24, 2021
2020904 stories
Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products↗ blog.mozilla.org · HN · 1456 comments · 1602 points · Aug 11, 2020
Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices↗ wsj.com · HN · 652 comments · 1063 points · May 18, 2020
Ask HN: Have you been laid off?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 645 comments · 800 points · Mar 18, 2020
DigitalOcean is laying off staff↗ techcrunch.com · HN · 399 comments · 816 points · Jan 17, 2020
Mozilla lays off 70↗ techcrunch.com · HN · 904 comments · 929 points · Jan 15, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Salesforce Global Outage↗ status.salesforce.com · HN · 184 comments · 280 points · Sep 16, 2026
Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program↗ neowin.net · HN · 103 comments · 136 points · Sep 20, 2026
Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts↗ techtimes.co.uk · HN · 189 comments · 204 points · Sep 14, 2026
Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30↗ mturk.com · HN · 167 comments · 534 points · Aug 26, 2026
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee↗ wired.com · HN · 45 comments · 98 points · Sep 19, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Salesforce Global Outage↗ status.salesforce.com · HN · 184 comments · 280 points · Sep 16, 2026
Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts↗ techtimes.co.uk · HN · 189 comments · 204 points · Sep 14, 2026
Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program↗ neowin.net · HN · 103 comments · 136 points · Sep 20, 2026
Uber is laying off 10% of staff↗ uber.com · HN · 85 comments · 130 points · Sep 02, 2026
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee↗ wired.com · HN · 45 comments · 98 points · Sep 19, 2026
Meta new layoff goal of 60% to AI after moving 30% engineers to labelers↗ blog.pragmaticengineer.com · HN · 12 comments · 24 points · Sep 04, 2026
Oracle to Spend an Additional $700M on More Job Cuts↗ bloomberg.com · HN · 1 comments · 13 points · Sep 12, 2026
Uber to axe 10% of its workforce in biggest cuts since pandemic↗ ft.com · HN · 1 comments · 13 points · Sep 02, 2026
Meta is asking some of its employees to become managers again in a new reorg↗ businessinsider.com · HN · 1 comments · 12 points · Sep 11, 2026
Volkswagen to cut 100,000 jobs by end of decade↗ dw.com · HN · 5 comments · 12 points · Sep 07, 2026

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