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As mass government layoffs are sweeping the United States, latest report by RationalFX shows that new rounds of job reductions at major technology companies have left more than 45,000 employees jobless. The report examining the workforce reductions around the world in 2024 and since the beginning of this year indicates that the federal departures under the Trump administration have exceeded 100,000. This is much higher than job losses in the tech sector.
RELATED: Over 280,000 employees in the tech sector laid off in 2024, another 11,000 job cuts in 2025
The team at RationalFX aggregated layoff announcements sourced from U.S. WARN notices, the job portal TrueUp, TechCrunch and the Layoffs.fyi layoff tracker for the entirety of 2024 and since the beginning of 2025, focusing on companies in the technology sector. Our calculations show that 280,991 employees in technology companies were laid off last year, with another 44,680 let go since January.
Among the latest tech giants to announce mass layoffs is Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is letting go of around 2,500 employees. The latest round of layoffs in the tech sector, however, cannot compare to the slashing of government jobs currently underway in the United States. Latest data shows that the federal layoffs and resignations have reached 113,331, including 77,000 departures under the Deferred Resignation Program.
Few key takeaways from our report
- Over a hundred tech companies, primarily American, have laid off a minimum of 44,680 employees since January 2025. For many of them, there are no confirmed figures and the positions eliminated are currently unknown.
- The tech companies with the largest layoffs so far this year are Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta (3,620 job cuts), semiconductor makers STMicro (3,000 job cuts) and Onsemi (2,400 job cuts), as well as Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2,500 job cuts).
- Since President Donald Trump took office in January, a little over 36,000 government employees have been laid off by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Another 240 federal judges, prosecutors, and officers have been fired, including 160 National Security Council aides, 20 immigration judges, and a dozen prosecutors who investigated the January 6 riots.
- Roughly 77,000 federal employees have agreed to resign voluntarily under the Deferred Resignation Program. Under the program, they will be placed on paid administrative leave until October. Around 21,000 civilians from the Department of Defense have participated.
- In 2024, tech companies around the world laid off at least 280,991 employees, with U.S. tech giants Dell, Intel, and Amazon cutting the most jobs.
Technology companies with the largest layoffs
These are the technology companies with the largest layoffs so far in 2025.
- Meta (Menlo Park, CA, U.S.) – 3,620 laid-off employees
- STMicro (Geneva, Switzerland) – 3,000 laid-off employees
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Spring, Texas, U.S.) – 2,500 laid-off employees
- Onsemi (Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.) – 2,400 laid-off employees
- Microsoft (Redmond, WA, U.S.), 2,280 laid-off employees
- Amazon (Seattle, Washington) – 2,100 laid-off employees
- HP Inc. (Palo Alto, California, U.S.) – 2,000 laid-off employees
- Workday (Pleasanton, CA, U.S.) – 1,750 laid-off employees
- Autodesk (San Francisco, California, U.S.) -1,350 laid-off employees
- Wayfair (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) – 1,070 laid-off employees
DOGE layoffs since January 20, 2025
- Department of the Treasury – 6,776 laid-off employees, including 6,700 layoffs in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Department of Defense – 5,420 layoffs
- Department of Health and Human Services – 4,211 layoffs, including 1,300 layoffs in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Department of Agriculture – 3,400 layoffs from the Forest Service
- Department of Commerce – 2,409 layoffs
- Department of the Interior – 2,820 laid-off employees, including 1,000 layoffs in the National Park Service
- Department of Veterans Affairs – 2,400 layoffs
- Department of State – 1,600 layoffs
- Department of Education – 1,529 layoffs
- Department of Energy – 1,250 layoffs
- Another 5,500 layoffs at different departments and agencies
Further details about the layoffs in the tech sector and the reasons for job reductions, as well as the complete methodology behind the research, are available in the full report.
