The 10 Biggest Tech Company Layoffs Of 2025 (So Far)

As tech companies faced a changing technology environment combined with economic uncertainties and on-again, off-again Trump administration tariffs, many have reacted with widespread layoffs impacting thousands of their employees. CRN looks at 10 of the most significant tech layoffs that have helped define the employment environment in the first half of 2025.

Ask almost any company what their biggest asset is, and chances are the answer will be their employees. And yet, when faced with the need to optimize operations, shift company priorities, or manage economic uncertainties, those very same employees face the possibility of layoffs.

The IT industry is facing a number of economic headwinds beyond their control, including on-again, off-again Trump administration tariffs and broad federal government spending cuts that make it hard to plan for the future.

Other companies are hearing the siren call of AI and its promise to reduce certain activities currently done by human employees. For instance, IBM in March laid off employees in its communications and marketing division as it looks towards AI to replace non-customer-facing roles.

This comes after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna last year said he planned to suspend or slow hiring for about 26,000 non-customer-facing back-office roles, or about 10 percent of the company’s headcount, that AI and automation can do instead of people.

Tech layoffs so far seem to be in line with last year. Layoffs.fyi as of July 31 estimates that 80,250 tech employees have been laid off in 2025, compared to 152,922 laid off in all of 2024.

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CRN looks at 10 of the most important tech layoffs of 2025 so far, with a focus on layoffs in companies whose businesses impact indirect channels. Therefore, while a company like Starbucks or dating app developer Bumble may announce significant cuts to their internal IT teams, those are not included in this list.

CRN based its list on the actual number of layoffs where available or, alternatively on announced layoff plans. That means the final number of employees laid off is subject to change, either as cuts go farther than expected or as businesses add new employees.

Also, this list of tech layoffs is focused on absolute numbers of employees whose positions were eliminated, not on how big the impacts on the companies as a whole are.

So far this year, layoffs have hit a variety of tech companies including Amazon, CrowdStrike, Google, HP Inc., HPE, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Salesforce and Scale AI.

Dylan Martin, Mark Haranas, Kyle Alspach, Steven Burke, O’Ryan Johnson, and Wade Millward all contributed to this story.

Amazon: 100-plus employees

Amazon in July confirmed it is making the “difficult business decision” of laying off employees inside its $117 billion global cloud market share leader Amazon Web Services.

“We’ve made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles across particular teams in AWS,” said an Amazon spokesperson in an email to CRN.

Amazon said several groups within AWS will be impacted by the layoffs, although the company did not specify which groups are impacted or how many AWS employees will be terminated.

Scale AI: 200 employees, 500 contractors

The fallout from a massive investment by Facebook parent company Meta in Scale AI started in July as Scale AI moved to cut about 14 percent of its workforce.

Business Insider reported that San Francisco-based Scale AI had laid off about 200 of its full-time employees and about 500 contractors, citing company sources.

The move came just one month after Meta unveiled a plan to invest $14.8 billion in Scale AI, giving Meta a 49 percent stake in the company. That investment valued Scale AI at over $29 billion.

With that investment, Meta also brought in Scale AI’s founder and CEO at the time, Alexandr Wang, to become Meta’s new chief AI officer. Wang is also spearheading Meta’s new “Superintelligence” initiative.

CrowdStrike: 500 employees

CrowdStrike in May disclosed in a regulatory filing that it will cut 5 percent of its staff, or about 500 jobs, as part of a new effort aimed at “doubling down” on fast-growing areas. The emphasis was on pursuing a new “strategic plan” to “evolve its operations to yield greater efficiencies,” the cybersecurity giant said.

In its filing, CrowdStrike included a letter from co-founder and CEO George Kurtz which said the company will “continue to prudently hire, primarily in customer-facing and product engineering roles.”

“We’re operating in a market and technology inflection point, with AI reshaping every industry, accelerating threats, and evolving customer needs,” Kurtz wrote in the letter. “To lead at scale, with nearly 10,000 CrowdStrikers and a clear path to $10 billion in ARR, we are evolving how we operate. We’re building on what works, simplifying execution, and doubling down on our highest-impact opportunities.”

Google: ‘Hundreds’ of employees

Google in April laid off hundreds of employees from its platforms and devices unit, according to TheStreet.com. That division had about 25,000 full-time employees, and is tasked with developing Google devices and applications including Android, Pixel, and Chrome.

The layoff round followed another round in February when the company laid off several employees in its cloud and human resources teams, TheStreet.com reported. Other employees were likely terminated when Google implemented its return to the office policy for employees living within 50 miles of an office location.

NetApp: Up to 700 employees

NetApp in April started a round of layoffs that appear to be impacting up to 700 employees, or about 6 percent of its entire workforce, according to a report from Blocks and Files.

The report came after a January SEC filing in which NetApp said it had reduced its global workforce by about 4 percent in the first nine months of its fiscal year 2025, which ended April 25.

Salesforce: 1,000 employees

Salesforce in February laid off a reported 1,000-plus employees despite an AI hiring spree the company simultaneously ran.

The layoffs, first reported by Bloomberg, impact about 1.5 percent of Salesforce’s global workforce as the CRM provider turns its hiring strategy towards AI salespeople. The company had about 72,680 employees as of February 2024.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in January said his company would not be hiring any more software engineers in 2025 due to significant productivity gains from AI. The layoff news came as Benioff said his company is currently hiring upward of 2,000 salespeople to help boost AI customer adoption and sales.

HP Inc.: Up to 2,000 employees

HP Inc. in late February unveiled plans to lay off up to 2,000 employees and incur approximately $150 million in restructuring costs as the company looked toward possible headwinds from tariffs as well as PC market competition. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based PC and printer maker said the job cuts should save the company an additional $300 million as part of its Future Ready program designed to restructure the company for efficiency.

HP at the time said it expected “gross workforce reductions of approximately 1,000 to 2,000 employees” across its global workforce – reported as 58,000 in 2024 – according to an SEC filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

HPE: 3,000 employees

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in March unveiled plans to reduce its workforce by five percent, or about 2,500 employees, over the following 12 months to 18 months, and that another 500 employees would be let go through attrition. The job cuts are part of a $350-million cost reduction program slated to be implemented over the next two years. HPE had 61,000 employees at the end of its last fiscal year Oct. 31, 2024.

HPE CEO Antonio Neri told analysts at the time that the layoffs and expected attrition will better align the company’s cost structure to business mix and long-term strategy. The cost reduction program came as HPE grapples with server margin pressure, the impact of tariffs, and a decision at the time by the U.S. Department of Justice to challenge HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, an acquisition that has since closed.

Microsoft: 15,000 employees

Microsoft in July unveiled a second round of layoffs for 2025, this time planning to cut about 9,000 employees, including an undisclosed number of managers and salespeople. This is less than 4 percent of Microsoft’s global workforce.

Microsoft in May laid off over 6,000 employees, layoffs reportedly focused on product and engineering positions

“We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company and teams for success in a dynamic marketplace,” a Microsoft spokesperson was quoted as saying by multiple news outlets.

Intel: 24,500 employees

Intel in July said it plans to end the year with a core workforce of about 75,000 employees via layoffs and attrition. That means Intel, which as of late last year had 99,500 in its core workforce, according to an SEC filing, will shed about one-quarter of its workers within a single year.

Intel during its second fiscal quarter 2025 financial report said it is in the process of laying off about 15 percent of its workforce as part of a previously announced plan to “create a faster-moving, flatter and more agile organization.”

The expected workforce reduction is coming after Intel cut its workforce by 15 percent last year between layoffs, buyouts and early retirement packages.