The new year has kicked off for the tech industry with several companies announcing significant job cuts. It’s reminiscent of how 2023 began, which preceded the sharpest industry retraction in more than a decade.
Amazon is cutting hundreds of workers across content-creation units, including Prime Video and live-streaming site Twitch. Google is also nixing hundreds of positions in hardware and its Assistant unit. Unity Software, which makes the tech that underpins popular mobile games like “Pokemon Go,” said it would reduce its workforce by 25%, eliminating about 1,800 jobs.
