全球科技公司5月裁员1.68万人 创两年来最高纪录

今年5月，随着创业公司和大型科技公司受到利率上升和股市抛售潮的挤压，他们以两年来最快速度进行了裁员。根据科技就业跟踪网站layoff
.fyi的数据，全球66家科技公司在上个月发出了高达1.68万份解雇通知书，超过了2022年前4个月52家公司裁员的总和1.36万人，是自2020年5月以来单月裁员人数最多的一次。

此前，在低利率和股价飙升的支撑下，科技公司在2020年底和2021年大举招聘，激烈争夺人才。自那以后，资金基本上停止了流动，以科技股为主的纳斯达克综合指数今年下跌了23.2%，风险投资资金也逐渐枯竭。

更让许多科技工作者感到沮丧的是，传奇风投家、Meta董事会成员马克·安德森(Marc Andreessen)今年4月在推特上称，科技公司还有更大的裁员空间。“优秀的大公司员工超编两倍，糟糕的大公司超编4倍甚至更多。”他表示。

Facebook母公司Meta、推特等大型科技公司都冻结了部分部门的招聘，而微软、Snap、Uber、Salesforce、Instacart和Coinbase等其他公司也放缓了招聘速度。

The move follows fierce competition for talent from technology companies on a hiring spree at the end of 2020 and 2021, buoyed by low interest rates and soaring share prices. Since then, money has largely stopped flowing, the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index has fallen 23.2% this year, and venture capital has gradually dried up.

To add to the frustration of many tech workers, Marc Andreessen, a legendary venture capitalist and board member of Meta, tweeted in April that tech companies had more room for layoffs. "the employees of good big companies are overstaffed by twice as much, and bad big companies by four times or more." He said.

Big technology companies such as Facebook's parent company Meta and Twitter have frozen hiring in some departments, while others, such as Microsoft, Snap, Uber, Salesforce, Instacart and Coinbase, have also slowed hiring.