: More than 166,000 tech-sector employees have lost their jobs since the start of 2023

The data show that 2023 has surpassed 2022 for global tech redundancies, with 553 tech companies laying off 166,004 employees since the start of the year. Last year, 1,024 tech companies laid off a total of 154,336 employees, according to Layoffs.fyi.

Related: Electronic Arts becomes latest tech-sector company to announce layoffs

Last week, Electronic Arts Inc.
EA,
+0.75%
announced its intention to slash 6% of its workforce as the videogame publisher looks to cut costs. Streaming-media company Roku Inc. 
ROKU,
-0.17%
also disclosed that it would lay off 200 employees as part of a cost-cutting plan.

A host of tech companies, including Amazon.com Inc.
AMZN,
-0.85%,
Palantir Technologies Inc.
PLTR,
-0.83%,
  Twilio Inc.
TWLO,
-3.57%,
 DocuSign Inc.
DOCU,
-0.38%,
 Salesforce Inc.
CRM,
-1.65%,
 SAP
SAP,
-0.18%,
  Zoom Video Communications Inc.
ZM,
-0.23%,
 eBay Inc.
EBAY,
-0.20%,
 Dell Technologies Inc.
DELL,
+1.89%,
 PayPal Holdings Inc.
PYPL,
-0.86%,
 International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
+0.74%,
 Intel Corp.
INTC,
+0.67%,
 Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
-0.37%,
 Spotify Technology 
SPOT,
+2.11%
and Google parent Alphabet Inc. 
GOOG,
+0.88%

GOOGL,
+0.61%
have announced job cuts in 2023.