May 16, 2026

Layoffs

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Tech Layoffs cross 92,000 in April, making 2026 the worst year for tech employees ever: Meta, Amazon, Oracle and other companies that announced biggest job cuts 2026

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Representative image (AI generated) It’s only May, and the tech industry has already handed pink slips to more than 92,000 people. Spread across 98 companies, the job cuts have been relentless—and April turned into the worst single month for announced tech-job reductions in at least two years, with 45,800 employees affected. Meta, Snap, Microsoft, Oracle,…

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Matt Garman: After 30,000+ layoffs, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman says: Jobs are not going away, I can tell you we are hiring just as many software developers as… |

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AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon is hiring 11,000 software development engineer interns and early-career hires in 2026, pushing back on fears that AI is eliminating software engineering jobs. His comments come after Amazon’s two biggest layoff rounds in six months—30,000-plus corporate cuts in total—and amid warnings from other tech leaders that AI coding tools…

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Evangeline Lilly SLAMS Marvel layoffs: ‘People who invented these characters and who designed them are being replaced by AI’ |

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Evangeline Lilly has taken to social media to publicaly call out Disney following recent layoffs that reportedly impacted employees at Marvel Studios, including longtime creative contributor Andy Park.The actor, known for playing the tole of Hope van Dyne aka the Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’, took to her…

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Oracle, once again, makes clarifications on the $300 billion promise to Sam Altman and OpenAI that’s behind thousands of layoffs

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Oracle did not build the data centre in Abilene, Texas. It leased it from Crusoe—a relatively inexperienced operator—on a 15-year contract worth more than a billion dollars a year. This is not an exception to how Oracle operates; it is the whole model. Oracle is a database company that has recast itself as the financial…

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Employees on Meta’s internal forum after company announces thousands of layoffs coming: Living through ’28 days of hell’, how do you…

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Meta confirmed on Thursday it is cutting roughly 10% of its workforce—about 8,000 employees—with the axe falling on May 20. Another 6,000 open roles will simply be closed, never filled. The announcement came via an internal memo from chief people officer Janelle Gale, who acknowledged the plan had already leaked and decided to get ahead…

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Starbucks layoffs hit company’s technology teams; memo says: We are making structural changes to …

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Starbucks has reportedly announced job cuts in its technology teams. According to an internal communication sent to employees (seen by The Seattle Times), the company noted that it is laying off staff as part of a restructuring of its technology organisation. This week, the company informed the laid-off employees that the report noted. There had…

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Elon Musk has Universal HIGH INCOME idea to deal with AI layoffs, that for once is similar to Sam Altman’s 1000 words-plus long AI vision

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Elon Musk once again raised the idea of a government-backed income system to deal with job losses caused by artificial intelligence, a view that now overlaps in parts with proposals from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman despite their ongoing rivalry. In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk spoke about what he called “Universal…

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Meta’s biggest layoffs in history starts May 20 with 8,000 job cuts, and these employees are most at risk

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Meta is cutting close to 8,000 employees on May 20 in the first wave of what could be its biggest round of layoffs ever—surpassing even the 2022–23 “year of efficiency.” A second wave is planned for later in 2026, with details still being finalised. The cuts are tied to Zuckerberg’s massive AI spending push, with…

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Disney layoffs: CEO Josh D’Amaro’s memo announcing 1,000 job cuts tells employees that ‘fast-moving pace of our industry requires us to …’

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Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro has announced that the company is undergoing a change, working to reshape its massive media empire. In a memo to employees, the CEO said that the company is cutting approximately 1,000 roles this week to “streamline” its operations. According to the memo, the majority of the job losses are a direct…

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