Another wave of layoffs is sweeping across tech.
Many are continuing to hire amid the cuts, sometimes even growing head count overall in the coming year.
BI rounded up some recent examples, including those with plans to grow staffing in AI, infrastructure, or the cloud.
Just because you’ve read about a tech company doing layoffs doesn’t mean the company isn’t continuing to hire.
The first two months of the year have already seen many tech firms conduct or announce layoffs. While some may be looking to operate more efficiently, many have hundreds or thousands of open job listings.
Backfilling the roles of laid-off employees or hiring more staff in divisions deemed a higher priority could build back head count levels in the coming year.
In some cases, companies plan to grow their head count in the coming year, and one red-hot area many companies are bolstering hiring is AI, for example, and related divisions such as infrastructure and cloud computing.
Here’s a look at some tech companies that are still adding staff to their payroll amid layoffs.
The workplace management platform is laying off 1,750 employees, or 8.5% of its workforce.
CEO Carl Eschenbach told staffers in a memo he published that the company would “continue to hire in key strategic areas and locations” throughout fiscal year 2026. Workday is “prioritizing innovation investments like AI and platform development, and rigorously evaluating the ROI of others across the board,” he wrote.
Workday has 348 job openings on its website as of this writing.
Meta is cutting 5% of its workforce, targeting employees it says are low performers, with plans to backfill those roles later this year. The company is planning to hire “in the priority areas of infrastructure, monetization, Reality Labs, generative artificial intelligence (AI), as well as regulation and compliance,” it said in its Q4 earnings last month.
Meta appears to be accelerating hiring for machine learning engineers amid its layoffs, according to an internal memo viewed by BI.
Meta has 1,750 job openings on its website as of this writing.
Stripe has laid off 300 workers, primarily in product, engineering, and operations roles. The cuts represent roughly 3.5% of the payment platform’s workforce.
However, the company’s chief people officer, Rob McIntosh, said in a memo to staff that Stripe is “not slowing down hiring.” Stripe plans to boost its head count to roughly 10,000 employees by the end of 2025, which would be a 17% increase year-over-year, he wrote.
