--- title: What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry | daily.dev description: Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry? This is Gergely with a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-big-tech-layoffs-suggest-for-the-industry-btsydm6up twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry? This is Gergely with a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-big-tech-layoffs-suggest-for-the-industry-btsydm6up og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bTsYDM6Up.png og:image:alt: What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry **[Pointer](https://daily.dev/sources/pointer)** · 4 min read · 10 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry? This is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@robak333** · 1 upvotes > Great analysis. I believe the situation isn't like the dot com bubble of the early 00' because tech companies like Meta, Google, or Amazon are incredibly well established. It will force them to be more cautious with their budgets and to cut down on more risky plans of expansion, though. **@emmanuelgautier** · 0 upvotes > It is an interesting analysis. I am wondering if this analysis is the same for other geographic areas like Europe or Asia. **@maddb3457** · 0 upvotes > Great analysis. --- Tags: [#amazon](https://daily.dev/tags/amazon), [#apple](https://daily.dev/tags/apple), [#big-tech](https://daily.dev/tags/big-tech), [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#revenue](https://daily.dev/tags/revenue), [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-big-tech-layoffs-suggest-for-the-industry-btsydm6up) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-big-tech-layoffs-suggest-for-the-industry-btsydm6up","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-big-tech-layoffs-suggest-for-the-industry-btsydm6up"},"datePublished":"2023-01-20T17:16:01.996Z","dateModified":"2023-10-04T02:20:35.987Z","description":"Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. 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I believe the situation isn’t like the dot com bubble of the early 00’ because tech companies like Meta, Google, or Amazon are incredibly well established. It will force them to be more cautious with their budgets and to cut down on more risky plans of expansion, though.","datePublished":"2023-01-27T10:46:47.100Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bTsYDM6Up#c-f_XKosDiH","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Aiden Scott","url":"https://daily.dev/robak333","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--sbLJOyKt--/f_auto/v1739263210/avatars/avatar_NuaN8vhIt1PG4egDBK1uM"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"It is an interesting analysis. I am wondering if this analysis is the same for other geographic areas like Europe or Asia.","datePublished":"2023-01-22T10:37:29.289Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bTsYDM6Up#c-NwH0yKZcS","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Emmanuel Gautier","url":"https://daily.dev/emmanuelgautier","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/2765366?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great analysis.","datePublished":"2023-01-25T23:09:03.351Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bTsYDM6Up#c-ECDBjB4cK","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jason","url":"https://daily.dev/maddb3457","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AEdFTp4o3ieDO1XZ6pkUryYttuH5r2ImyJ36EYrMBaC8=s96-c"}}]} ```