1. Victor Janulaitis, Janco
January saw tech companies announcing layoffs impacting thousands of workers as economic uncertainty continues with no light at the end of the tunnel.
Our layoff trackers are normally a biannual gallery, but in just one month nearly 20 companies doing business in the channel have announced layoffs. Salesforce, Amazon, Cisco, Microsoft and RingCentral are among companies that greeted the new year by pink-slipping workers. The cuts are in the hundreds, and in some cases, the thousands.
According to Janco and Associates, in a startling turn of events, over 100,000 unfilled jobs for IT professionals have been eliminated.
“The drop was unexpected,” said Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis. “The initial reports of positions eliminated were that they were focused on administrative and non-technical individuals. Reviewing the data, we now see that CIOs and hiring managers not only eliminated those non-technical positions but have also started putting the break on IT projects.”
Visit our layoff tracker to view the many job cuts that have occurred this year.
