2024 Tech Layoffs: Designers, I have some good news

UX Survival Guide
3 min readJan 25, 2024

Have you been worried about the recent tech layoffs that have been happening (again)?

How could you not be with articles like this floating around?

Well if you’re a designer in tech I actually have some good news for you…

But we have to start with the bad news…

Here are all the tech layoffs that have happened this year already

Sources: Various. Numbers vary slightly across

I was just scrolling my life away on TikTok and all of a sudden videos of people recording the moment they go laid off from these big tech companies started popping up and I like…

Because to be honest even with the droves of tech layoffs last year, big picture, it made sense. Tech companies were making BANK through covid so they hired a bunch of people, too many people. But once people weren’t confided to their homes anymore and freewill became a thing again, they weren’t making as much. So, they had to let a lot of people go.

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