LinkedIn becomes the latest name on a 100,000-job tech layoff list

Microsoft’s professional network becomes the latest name on a list that now includes Meta, Amazon, Oracle, and IBM, even as the same companies are guiding $725 billion of AI capital spending this year.

LinkedIn is cutting roughly 5% of its staff, the latest reduction at a Microsoft-owned business and the most recent entry in a year-long Big Tech contraction that has now displaced more than 100,000 workers across the sector.

The company’s chief executive Ryan Roslansky set out the cuts in a letter to employees, citing “shifts in customer behavior and slower revenue growth” and a move to “a flatter organisational structure,” Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

LinkedIn employed roughly 18,500 staff at the start of 2026, which implies a cut in the region of 900 to 1,000 roles, although the company has not confirmed an absolute number.

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