{"id":1243644,"date":"2023-03-11T10:58:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T05:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/?p=1243644"},"modified":"2023-03-11T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T05:29:04","slug":"layoffs-of-us-employees-highest-since-2009-180000-tech-it-employees-fired-in-last-60-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/layoffs-of-us-employees-highest-since-2009-180000-tech-it-employees-fired-in-last-60-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Layoffs Of US Employees Highest Since 2009: 180,000 Tech IT Employees Fired In Last 60 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-job-cuts-over-jan-feb-hit-highest-since-2009-report-2023-03-09\/?utm_campaign=fullarticle&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=inshorts\">report<\/a> on Thursday indicates that layoffs by U.S. companies over January and February touched the highest since 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Job Cuts This Year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/worried-IT-employees-1-1280x720-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Layoffs Of US Employees Highest Since 2009: 180,000 Tech IT Employees Fired In Last 60 Days\" class=\"wp-image-1243649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/worried-IT-employees-1-1280x720-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/worried-IT-employees-1-1280x720-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/worried-IT-employees-1-1280x720-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/worried-IT-employees-1-1280x720-1.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this scenario, the tech sector is accounting for more than a third of the over 180,000 job cuts as per the announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report from employment firm Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas Inc showed that in February alone, layoffs in the United States stood at 77,770.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, it is more than five times higher than the 15,245 job cuts announced a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose to 21,000 in the week ended March 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, this is the biggest increase in five months according to the Labor Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why Would This Happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senior vice president of Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas Inc, Andrew Challenger said, &#8220;Right now, the overwhelming bulk of cuts are occurring in Technology. Retail and Financial are also cutting right now, as consumer spending matches economic conditions,&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the start of this year, Tech companies from Microsoft Corp and Google-parent Alphabet Inc to PayPal Holdings have cut thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, the move is an effort to curb spending and protect margins amid an uncertain economic outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chief investment officer at asset management firm Alliance Bernstein, James Tierney said, &#8220;the layoffs that many of these companies are announcing are welcome to investors, sort of right-sizing the cost structure, and rationalizing growth is being rewarded in the marketplace,&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime the shares of Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon.com Inc and Meta Platforms Inc have gained between 6% and 54%, after falling between 29% and 64% in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reaffirmed his message of higher and potentially faster interest rate hikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it could not be denied that this could force companies to slash more jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, the U.S. firms announced plans to hire 28,830 workers in February, down 87% from 215,127 a year earlier, the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A latest report on Thursday indicates that layoffs by U.S. companies over January and February touched the highest since 2009. 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