Big tech job cuts keep coming; Dell latest to trim headcount

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
AP Business Writer

The tech industry started the year with a wave of job cuts, around 50,000 in January alone, and there doesn’t appear to be any let up this month. The computer maker Dell said Monday that it’s cutting about 6,600 jobs. Worldwide PC shipments plunged 16% last year, the largest recorded drop ever, in the wake of pandemic lockdowns, according to the research firm Gartner. Large and small tech companies went on a hiring spree in over the past several years due to a demand for their products, software and services surged with millions of people working remotely. However, even with all of the layoffs announced this year, most tech companies are still vastly larger than they were three years ago.