Bay Area tech workers endure grim 2025 as big companies reveal layoffs
The Bay Area has lost more than tech jobs so far in a slump in hiring punctuated by disclosures of fresh layoffs in the region by specific big players such as Google Walmart and Microsoft The protracted hiring slump is a reminder that the tech industry is no longer a robust engine that helps to power the Bay Area business activity The tech sector instead has begun to weigh down hiring in the Bay Area job domain In the majority fresh rounds of layoffs Walmart Google and Microsoft have disclosed their intentions to eliminate a combined jobs according to WARN letters the companies sent to the state Employment Enhancement Department Here are a few of the details of newly filed WARN notices that point to upcoming job cuts for particular tech companies in the Bay Area Walmart job cuts affecting tech workers at a San Bruno site where the retailing titan crafts e-commerce and online services The layoffs are scheduled for Aug Google layoffs in Sunnyvale The search giant scheduled the downsizing for July Microsoft eight staffing reductions in Mountain View and Sunnyvale The application titan s cutbacks are slated to occur Aug Cruise one job cut in San Francisco The former autonomous wagon company explained the job cut occurred May All of the job cuts were described as permanent by the various companies The weakness in the Bay Area tech industry so far in is widespread according to seasonally adjusted estimates that Beacon Economics derived from the monthly reports circulated by the state EDD Of the net loss in tech jobs for the Bay Area the worst losses occurred in the San Francisco-San Mateo region The nosedive in tech employment has materialized in the San Francisco metro area despite specific optimistic assessments that the fledgling artificial intelligence industry was providing a jobs lift to San Francisco Here is how tech job trends looked in the Bay Area s three largest urban centers over the first four months of according to this news organization s compilation of the Beacon Economics industry estimates San Francisco-San Mateo suffered a net loss of tech jobs The South Bay lost tech jobs The East Bay shed a net total of tech jobs In the North Bay Sonoma County lost tech jobs and Marin County lost tech positions Tech job totals were unchanged in Solano County and Napa County over the first four months of this year The tech industry has entered what appears to be a protracted period of attempting to right-size its operations in the Bay Area now that coronavirus-linked business shutdowns have faded into the background During the first year or two of the coronavirus outbreak tech companies staged massive hiring sprees to meet the demand for services and equipment to help people work and learn from remote locations After the shutdowns ended and demand for remote tech products faded tech companies determined they had over-hired during the coronavirus years and then embarked on widespread layoffs to rein in staffing levels At the same time tech companies jumped into new fields such as artificial intelligence even as they downsized in sectors that did not appear to be as promising as AI
