MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 15: An Amazon logistics center, on November 15, 2022, in Madrid, Spain. U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon is considering job cuts among its corporate and technology workforce of up to 10,000 employees. The layoffs are equivalent to 0.65% of Amazon's total global workforce of 1.54 million employees. The employee layoffs are focused on the company's devices area, where the Alexa voice assistant business is included, as well as in the 'retail' and human resources branches. (Photo By Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via Getty Images) (Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via Getty Images)
A representation of the cryptocurrency is seen in front of Coinbase logo in this illustration taken, March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic)
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS - JANUARY 04: The exterior of a Dell Technologies office building is seen on January 04, 2023 in Round Rock, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (Brandon Bell via Getty Images)
San Francisco, California, USA - July 12, 2019: DocuSign headquarters building. DocuSign is an American company that helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. (Michael Vi via Getty Images)
BRAZIL - 2022/02/05: In this photo illustration the GitLab logo seen displayed on a smartphone and on the background. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
UKRAINE - 2021/11/22: In this photo illustration, the GoDaddy Inc. logo is seen on a smartphone and on the background. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images))
GoDaddy 在疫情初期就已經開始裁員,當時裁撤了超過 800 位任職於零售導向社交平台的員工。但是到了今年 2 月,裁員的幅度又進一步擴大。這間網路服務供應商又裁掉了 8% 的人力,超過 500 位員工,而且這次所有部門皆受波及。執行長 Aman Bhutani 聲稱其他形式的成本消減手段都無法幫助公司克服「不明朗」的經濟前景,這也反映在 GoDaddy 進一步整合 Main Street Hub 收購案等規劃。
Google(Alphabet)裁員概況
An exterior view of building BV100, during a tour of Google's new Bay View Campus in Mountain View, California, U.S. May 16, 2022. Picture taken May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Peter DaSilva (REUTERS/Peter DaSilva)
The IBM logo is pictured in the Garibaldi-Porta Nuova modern district of Milan on June 22, 2021. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images) (MIGUEL MEDINA via Getty Images)
有時候,公司裁員不見得是因為財務困難,而是公司政策調整,IBM 在 2023 年的裁員措施就是一個經典範例。這間資訊科技先驅去年秋季賣掉 AI 導向的 Watson Health 業務和基礎架構管理部門 (現在的 Kyndryl),隨後又在 1 月下旬砍掉 3,900 個職位。簡單來說,隨著 IBM 轉向雲端運算業務發展,他們也得裁掉無法在這個領域有所貢獻的員工。
Microsoft 裁員概況
A person walks past Microsoft signage at the headquarters in Redmond, Washington, U.S., January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight (REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight)
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 02: A sign is posted in front of PayPal headquarters on February 02, 2023 in San Jose, California. PayPal has announced plans to lay off 2,000 employees, nearly 7 percent of its workforce. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - DECEMBER 01: The Salesforce logo is seen at its headquarters on December 1, 2020 in San Francisco, California. The cloud-based enterprise software company announced on Tuesday that it will purchase the popular workplace-chat app Slack for $27.7 billion. (Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images) (Stephen Lam/Getty Images))
The logo of German software group SAP is pictured at its headquarters in Walldorf, Germany, May 12, 2016. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 23: People are seen inside the Spotify headquarters building in Lower Manhattan on January 23, 2023 in New York City. Spotify announced Monday they will be cutting 6% of its global workforce. (Photo by Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress via Getty Images) (Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress via Getty Images)
Spotify 這幾年將業務積極擴展到 podcast,積極投入大筆資金,但很快在 2023 開年就喊停。這間串流音樂服務公司在 1 月底表示將裁員 6%(在去年第三季,該公司的員工總數為 9,800 人),並且會進行組織重組,內容長 Dawn Ostroff 也將去職。雖然在 2022 年,該公司的 Premium 訂戶大幅成長,但也出現鉅額損失。總裁 Daniel Ek 表示他投資時「野心過大」,導致現有營收無法有效因應。
Twilio 裁員概況
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 17, 2018: A passenger waiting to board his plane walks in front of a sign advertising Twilio at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California. Twilio is a cloud communications platform based in San Francisco. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
NATICK, MA - AUGUST 20: A virtual reality app is demonstrated at Wayfair's first store in the Natick Mall in Natick, MA on Aug. 20, 2019. Shoppers can don virtual reality headsets to see how furniture would fit into a space, using Wayfairs Room Planner tool. They can virtually climb onto a dining room table to get a 360-degree view of a digitally rendered room, then swap out chairs, chandeliers, and art on the virtual walls. Thats just one example of how the Boston-based e-commerce giant has used its digital DNA to create its first brick-and-mortar store. It opens Wednesday in the Natick Mall. Product information, including prices and customer ratings, is displayed on screens that update in real time to reflect online price changes. Staffers carry iPads with an augmented reality tool that makes furniture appear in a 3-D setting, or they can snap a picture of an item in the store and find dozens like it online. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
CHINA - 2022/05/12: In this photo illustration, a Yahoo logo is displayed on the screen of a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Engadget 的母公司 Yahoo 也難逃裁員的命運。這個網際網路品牌在 2 月表示,2023 年將要裁員 20%,超過 1,600 名員工,第一批裁員影響約 1,000 名員工。總裁 Jim Lanzone 未將裁員決定歸責於經濟情勢。他表示這項措施是為了重組廣告技術事業部,消減不成功的業務,著力於盈利能力強的業務。事實上,Yahoo 已經不打算在廣告市場繼續與 Google 和 Meta 正面對決。
Zoom 裁員概況
May 6, 2020 San Jose / CA / USA - Zoom headquarters in Silicon Valley; Zoom Video Communications is a company that provides remote conferencing services using cloud computing (Andrei Stanescu via Getty Images)