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Tech layoffs are skyrocketing:

Tech companies announced 81,747 layoffs in Q1 2026, the highest quarterly total since at least Q1 2024. Layoffs have more than DOUBLED from the previous quarter and have risen +580% since Q4 2025. March alone saw 45,800 announced job cuts, the worst single month for tech layoffs in at least 2 years. Tech layoffs are set to remain elevated with Meta’s, $META, recent plans to cut ~8,000 employees. Furthermore, Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering voluntary retirement to ~7% of its US workforce, which could transition into layoffs if participation is low. This comes as tech giants shift spending toward AI chips and data centers, trimming staff to free up capital for infrastructure. US tech employment is rapidly contracting.

  • When you see 81,747 jobs cut while companies like Meta and Microsoft are spending billions on AI infrastructure, the math is simple: AI is replacing headcount. Tech giants are raiding their payroll budgets to fund data centers and GPUs. The market is just moving from human capital to synthetic capital, i guess – Renato
  • 81,747 tech layoffs isn’t a contraction story. It’s a capital reallocation story. Every person cut is a dollar redirected from salaries into megawatts, copper, and compute. The tech industry isn’t shrinking — it’s molting. Shedding the software-era workforce to fund the physical infrastructure era. The jobs disappearing are white collar. The jobs being created are in the ground and on the grid. Are we building the education system fast enough to close that gap? – Slone Sterling
  • 81,000 jobs in a quarter where the Nasdaq was up 15%. the market didn’t tolerate the layoffs — it rewarded them. there’s a feedback loop now where firing people and replacing the budget line with GPU orders makes the stock go up. the board sees the reaction, approves more cuts, analysts upgrade the rating. the headcount is the cost being optimized — not for efficiency, but for a next-day pop on a capex number nobody’s shown the ROI on yet

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