Careers: Thesetech Jobs Are In Demand: Despite Recent Layoffs, Big Data and AI Roles are Growing

In 2024, the technology sector saw yet more lay-offs after massive cuts in 2022 and 2023. Though the pace was somewhat slower last year, more than 150,000 employees were laid off across hundreds of companies, according to Layoffs.fyi, a site started during the COVID-19 pandemic to track tech layoffs around the world. The largest single cut came in August, when Intel cut 15 percent of its workforce-roughly 15,000 roles-by, for example, consolidating its sales and marketing team. To start the new year, in January 2025, tech companies announced another 5,000 layoffs. More than half of these are from Meta's 5 percent workforce cut.