Accenture joins Amazon, Meta, Google; lays off 19,000 employees

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IT giant Accenture announced 19,000 job cuts, which represents 2.5% of its workforce. Over 50% of the layoffs would impact employees in its non-billable corporate functions, it said.

Accenture layoff

Over the next 18 months, Accenture's layoffs move is expected to result in the departure of approximately 19,000 people. The company has set aside $1.2 billion for severance of the employees who will be let go.

Accenture fires 19,000
employees

From the US to Europe and Asia, global tech giants including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, SAP and more have laid off thousands of employees since the start of the year

Massive tech layoffs

In January 2023, Microsoft said that it is letting go of 10,000 employees through March 31 as the software maker braces for slower revenue growth. In July 2023, Microsoft said it will trim less than 1% of employees, and in October it confirmed an additional round of job cuts that reportedly affected nearly 1,000 workers

Microsoft layoffs

In January 2023, Google said it will lay off 12,000 people from its workforce. The web search and video sharing giant will offer US-based employees 16 weeks of severance pay plus two weeks for each additional year they’ve worked at Google

Google lays off
12,000 people

Amazon conducted its largest layoffs in history in January this year, eliminating 18,000 roles, mostly from its Amazon Stores and People Experience and Technology Solutions divisions. It is set to let go of 9,000 more workers in the coming weeks

Amazon mass layoff

Twitter has laid off at least 200 staff in another round of cuts. This is the latest round of job losses at Twitter since CEO Elon Musk sacked about 50% of its 7,500 employees when he took over in October. Germany’s SAP announced in January that it’s cutting up to 3,000 jobs, as the leadership seeks to steer the company toward double-digit profit growth in 2023

Mass tech layoffs

Indonesia’s GoTo Group, Singapore’s Seag-Group, Carousell, Berlin-based Foodpanda and South Korea’s Naver and Kakao are some of the other companies that have cut employees in the last few months.

Dell, Naver, Kakao layoffs

A total of 518 tech companies have laid off 1,71,858 employees between January 1 and March 23 this year, compared with the 1,61,411 employees sacked in 2022. In 2022, a total of 1,052 tech companies had laid off 1,61,411 employees, according to layoffs.fyi

Tech layoffs in 3 months
surpass whole 2022 figures