Technology companies have a trip to trim. After Google and Microsoft, IBM has also allegedly fired about 8,000 employees. In this trim, the highest number of human resources have fallen on HR Staff. According to the news of Financial Express, IBM has recently been rolled out after the rollout of AI equipment designed to handle the duties managed by HR (Human Resources) personnel. The effect of this is that a large number of jobs have ended.
Effect of AI and automation
According to the news, it is being seen that as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being adopted in business work, the roles are being abolished. Let us tell you, recently IBM CEO Arvind Krishna shared that the company is adopting AI and automation (automation) rapidly to increase its capacity. He also said that savings from automation are being redirected in areas such as marketing, software engineering and sales operations.
IBM is actively pushing AI offers
IBM is actively advancing its AI offers for customers. During the annual think conference the same month, the company introduced a suit of new solutions aimed at helping the enterprises develop and operate its own AI-operated agents. These devices are designed to easily integrate with major platforms of Openai, Amazon and Microsoft. Statistics of the legendofar platform layoffs.fyi show that in the year 2025, more than 61,220 technical employees have been fired from jobs so far, which has affected employees of 130 different companies.
Microsoft and Google have already shocked
Microsoft announced its decision to cut 6,000 jobs on 13 May. This is the biggest phase of trimming since 2023. This trimming is 3 percent of 228,000 employees present worldwide. Google has started another retrenchment in the series of trimming earlier this year. In April last, the company reduced several hundred positions in its platform and devices divisions.
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