It has been a dismal January for many tech employees around the world after Big Tech companies like Microsoft and Google joined the ongoing layoff season. More than 3,400 tech employees are being laid off per day on average in the first month of the year globally. 

As per the data by layoffs tracking site Layoffs.fyi, 219 companies have laid off more than 68,000 employees in January so far.

In 2022, over 1,000 companies laid off 154,336 workers, as per the data by layoffs tracking site Layoffs.fyi.