An estimated 45% of the employees laid off from tech companies between October 2022 and June 2023 were women, according to data provided by Layoffs.fyi to Axios. While that means the majority, 55%, of layoffs were male employees, the layoffs seem to contrast with the low percentage of female tech employees. A 2021 report from the Computing Technology Industry Association found that women make up 26% of the tech workforce nationally.Layoffs.
The data could also be skewed based on the nature of the layoffs. The companies laid off more employees in the human resources department than they did tech engineers, according to a separate analysis from Layoffs.fyi.Big Tech companies laid off tens of thousands of workers in the last year in an effort to cut costs and diminish company bloat in the post-pandemic economy. Google dismissed 12,000 employees worldwide in January.