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		wmeredith 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel... Amazon - 14,000 layoffs; significant Microsoft - 14,000 (multiple rounds); significant Meta - 600 layoffs; insignificant for company size Google - "Several hundred layoffs"; insignificant for a company size Apple - No layoffs Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/tech-layoffs-2025-list/

ponector 20 days ago | [–]

Also every one of them has hundreds of thousands of external contractors which are not reported anywhere.

And offshoring is also a huge cost-cutting effort everywhere.

_DeadFred_ 20 days ago | [–]

Google's Youtube unit is doing soft layoffs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766368

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