Urgency of crisis demands quick action
Returning from a month-long holiday in the US, I was immediately struck by the urgency of the pollution crisis as I landed in Delhi, past midnight this week.
More than 32,000 tech worker have been laid off in the US till July this year, including at Big Tech organisations like Microsoft and Meta (previously Facebook) and the most obviously awful has not been finished at this point for the tech sector that has seen monstrous stock auction.
As per the information sourced by Crunchbase, in excess of 32,000 laborers in the US tech sector have been laid off in mass job cuts, as of late July.
“We’ve included both startups and publicly traded companies that are based in the US. We’ve also included companies based elsewhere that have a sizable team in the United States, such as Klarna,” the analysis said.
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The layoff incorporates ride-sharing platform Uber, Netflix and a few digital currency and loaning platforms.
Robinhood, Glossier and Better are only a couple of the tech organisations that have managed their headcount this year.
Since April 1 this year, over 43,000 workers from 342 tech organisations/startups have been laid off across the world and more than 13% are from India, as per most recent information ordered by layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks cutbacks in new companies.
In India, over 25,000 startup staffs have lost positions since the pandemic started, and more than 11,500 have been terminated this year.
The staff firing in India are overwhelmed by edtech stages like Unacademy (1,150 workers), BYJU’S (550 at Toppr and Whitehat Jr) and Vedantu (624), alongside ride-hailing stage Ola (almost 500), medical services startup MFine (600) and used vehicles stage Cars24 (600), among others.
The other Indian new companies and unicorns that have laid off workers are Meesho, MPL, Trell and Blinkit (presently possessed by Zomato), among others.
(inputs from IANS)
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