It Industry Layoffs

26 employees sue Meta over alleged use of AI to select workers for layoffs

A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical, parental or family leave. They are among the 8,000 employees, or about 10 per cent of its workforce, Meta said it would lay off in May. The lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, claims the company used internal AI systems, keystroke and activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards and algorithmically assisted performance rankings, among other methods, to determine who would be laid off. Many of these scores and ratings "by design, cannot be accumulated by an employee who is on protected medical or family leave, or whose output is reduced by a disability," the lawsuit says. Meta, according to the lawsuit, did not account for protected leave when taking employees' scores into account and "did not pause the system for the individualised, leave- and accommodation-neutral review

Tech workers who don't embrace AI face triple the layoff risk: Gallup study

The estimates are based on survey data in February involving more than 23,000 US workers, including 660 respondents who reported being unemployed after their jobs were eliminated

Early morning pink slips from Oracle a wakeup call on AI transition?

Tech giant joins industry peers in pivoting towards AI infrastructure, triggering a massive workforce restructure across global and Indian operations

Why Oracle laid off 30,000 employees despite strong revenue growth

Oracle has eliminated nearly 30,000 jobs globally as huge investments in AI data centres and infrastructure strain its finances despite strong revenue growth

From Oracle to Amazon: Tech layoffs sweep across global IT industry

The technology sector has seen major job cuts recently, with companies including Oracle, TCS, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel and Block cutting thousands as they restructure and invest in AI

Over 30,000 tech jobs cut globally in first two months of 2026: Report

RationalFx report says over 80 per cent of 30,700 job cuts occurred in the US; India tops Asia with 920 layoffs as firms pivot towards AI-focused hiring

2026 begins with big layoffs: Meta, Citigroup, BlackRock reduce staff

Meta, Citigroup and BlackRock have announced major layoffs this month, cutting hundreds to thousands of jobs as companies restructure in 2026

Tech layoffs: How AI, regulation, and profits reshaped tech jobs in 2025

From IT services giants to venture-backed startups, India's tech industry saw widespread job cuts in 2025 as AI automation, gaming regulation and cost pressures reshaped hiring

Amazon's Luxembourg hub faces 370 job cuts, the biggest in two decades

Amazon's European headquarters in Luxembourg will see 370 job cuts in the coming weeks, the biggest in over 20 years, as the company trims staff and shifts focus to AI

Apple cuts dozens of sales roles globally as it streamlines operations

In a rare move, Apple has trimmed its sales workforce to streamline operations; the company says it is still hiring and affected employees can look for new roles internally

Indian-origin startup offers jobs to laid-off Meta staff, pay up to ₹5.2 cr

Meta to cut 600 positions from its AI labs; Smallest AI, led by Indian-origin founder Sudarshan Kamath, has offered to hire these affected employees with top salaries of $600,000

TCS to retrain 100,000 staff yearly as AI transforms tech, job roles

The company said that AI tools capable of learning and evolving on their own demand a new kind of testing and quality assurance

TCS offers severance pay of up to 2 yrs' salary amid workforce realignment

TCS is offering severance pay of up to two years' salary to long-serving staff whose skills no longer match company needs, as it realigns workforce

Statsguru: Has TCS's job cut signal set the tone for the IT industry?

TCS employed the highest number of workers in FY25, at 636,833 employees. Infosys hired the distant second-highest number at 348,596 in FY25, followed by Wipro at 235,415

IT cos warn employees to reskill or risk losing jobs amid AI transformation

From TCS to Cognizant, firms pivot to AI-first models, favouring tech-savvy, younger talent and urging workforce to upgrade skills or face involuntary exits

Intel to lay off over 10,000 factory workers as part of cost-cutting drive

The company said the layoffs will be driven by investment priorities, skills assessments and performance, and ruled out voluntary exits or buyouts

Google rolls out buyout offers in US teams as AI spending takes priority

The exit programme affects US-based teams including knowledge and information, engineering, and marketing as Google reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure development

Infosys drop 195 trainees in third such layoffs in 2025, offers training

IT company says recruits failed to meet qualifying criteria and were given three chances

Infosys lays off 240 trainees who failed to clear training programme

The layoff comes a day after the IT major announced its plan to hire 20,000 fresh engineering graduates this fiscal year amid prediction of weaker than expected revenue growth

Microsoft confirms performance-based job cuts across key divisions

Microsoft's restructuring plans began in 2023 with 10,000 layoffs, followed by 1,900 more in its gaming unit after the $75.4 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition