Ride-sharing company Uber is cutting 10 percent of its global workforce, a reduction that SFGate estimated at roughly 3,300 workers. Chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told staff in a message that the decision was shaped by three areas: organizational health, team simplification and location strategy. Because the layoff is global, it remains unclear how many U.S. employees were affected. The San Francisco-based company tops the weekly layoff count.
Amazon also appeared twice in the weekly tally. On Aug. 31, reports said the Seattle-based internet retailer is reducing staff at its Bellevue, Seattle and Sumner, Washington, locations. Those cuts, set to begin in October, will reach workers from entry-level software developers to corporate tech teams. The following day, reports said the company will trim its workforce in Sunnyvale and San Francisco, California, with the reduction in force taking effect in mid-October and affecting about 150 workers.
For the weeks ended Sept. 9, 2026, at least 4,442 U.S. tech sector employees were laid off or scheduled to be laid off, according to a Crunchbase News tally. That figure covers layoffs conducted by U.S.-based companies or those with a strong U.S. presence, including startups and publicly traded, tech-heavy companies, and companies based elsewhere with sizable U.S. teams such as Klarna.
The current wave follows several years of heavy cuts across the U.S. tech sector. In 2025, around 127,000 workers were let go from U.S.-based tech companies, per the tally. At least 95,667 workers at U.S.-based tech companies lost their jobs in 2024. In 2023, more than 191,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies, or tech companies with a large U.S. workforce, were laid off in mass job cuts, while more than 93,000 jobs were cut from public and private tech companies in the U.S. in 2022.
Those reductions have had individual leaders. Intel laid off the largest number of people among U.S. tech employers in 2024, cutting more than 15,000 employees. Tesla followed closely with more than 14,000 roles cut, and Cisco cut more than 10,000 total roles. In 2023, Amazon led the numbers with 16,000 roles cut, while Alphabet totaled about 12,000, and Microsoft and Meta each totaled about 10,000.
Companies have given various reasons for the layoffs. Some e-commerce companies nearly doubled headcount to meet pandemic demand and later found themselves overstaffed. Large employers such as Salesforce and Alphabet cited years of rapid hiring, slowing sales and recession fears, while venture-backed startups cut jobs to preserve cash as funding fell after the 2021 peak.
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