Tech jobs bloodbath rockets to 200,000

The total number of tech layoffs has reached over 200,000 in the past year as Google added to the Silicon Valley bloodbath.

Since the start of 2022, around 210,000 positions have been slashed, with around 55,000 in the last two weeks alone, according to jobs data firm Layoffs.fyi.

Google parent firm Alphabet's cuts yesterday swelled the already spiralling numbers, adding 12,000 jobs, or roughly 6 per cent of the global workforce, to that layoff list.

'Over the past two years we've seen periods of dramatic growth,' Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai told employees.