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layoff spree: For more than a month, 29-year-old Aditya Sharma (name changed) has applied for approximately 30 jobs <\/strong>daily. Byju’s fired Sharma in the first week of November, along with many others, after he worked long hours to meet goals as the sales business development <\/strong>manager for more than five years. He is having trouble finding a new job right now because either offers come with half of his previous salary or he is laid off<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“During interviews, when I notice I was laid off, the employers don’t give me the job or request that I conform to a lower pay<\/strong>, faulting me for not performing well enough in my previous company,\u201d says Sharma. By, a tech giant with 50,000 <\/strong>employees, laid off 2,500<\/strong> of its workers due to a drop in revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Layoff Spree: 44 startups<\/strong>, including those with unicorn statuses (valued at $1 billion or more) such as Chargebee, Cars24, LEAD, Byju’s, Ola, Meesho, MPL, Innovaccer, Udaan, Unacademy, Vedantu, have laid off nearly 16,000 employees. The education technology industry has seen the most layoffs, with 14 startups laying off approximately 7,000 employees <\/strong>in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IT service providers<\/strong> as well as startups are laying off employees. According to Naukri JobSpeak, an index that measures month-to-month hiring trends based on recruiter activities on the job portal Naukri.com. Hiring in the Indian tech industry was 18 percent <\/strong>lower in October compared to a year ago. This is even though job cuts have impacted Indian employees at global companies <\/strong>like Meta and Twitter, which Elon Musk owns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will the layoff spree continue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Layoffs have been blamed by experts on restructuring and funding winter. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta<\/strong>, stated that “we need to become more capital efficient” in the new environment (post-Covid); Meta has stated that it will lay off 11,000 workers<\/strong>, or 13% of its workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new company is joining the mass layoffs daily<\/strong>. Jobs don’t appear to be secure anywhere, whether at PepsiCo, Adobe, Amazon, the food delivery company DoorDash, the banking giant Citigroup, the media company CNN, the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Morgan Stanley, the chipmaker Intel, or the software giant <\/strong>Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Netflix, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Apple have all lost $2.5 trillion<\/strong> in market value, according to reports. Of all the companies, Meta ranked the highest, where the company lost about $640 billion<\/strong> in market cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overhiring in 2021 is the primary cause of this year’s layoffs. According to Layoffs, 930 tech companies<\/strong> worldwide will have laid off 1,46,407 <\/strong>employees in 2022. FYI website tracks layoffs and compiles data from public reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To navigate this year, some businesses<\/strong> have made the difficult decision to restructure their entire workforce. Which was the primary reason for some layoffs. Viswanath PS, the MD and CEO of Randstad India, explains, “These were not even close to mass layoffs<\/strong>.” As opposed to the “sudden downturn in hiring” that we experienced at the height of the pandemic. What we have witnessed in 2022 is a “hiring slowdown in slow motion” as a result of recessionary fears. This is because decision-makers<\/strong> are unsure of the extent and duration of the recession. Moreover, they took precautionary measures on hiring decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But things are very different for those who have lost their jobs<\/strong>. It makes them doubt themselves. Losing a job is one of the top ten<\/strong> most stressful life events, according to the Holmes-Rahe Stress Inventory. The scale is used to estimate people’s vulnerability to major health problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Accenture, a major provider of IT services<\/strong>, has promoted over 60,000 employees in India. Out of 157,000 promotions<\/strong> it was distributed worldwide during FY2022. At a time when companies are choosing to cut jobs to save money. During the last year, when the tech talent war gained momentum, the number of promotions increased rapidly. Before the end of this fiscal year, Indian IT giants<\/strong> Infosys, TCS, Wipro, and HCL are expected to hire a total of 1.57 lakh<\/strong> freshers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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