Bay Area tech workers endure grim 2025 as big companies reveal layoffs

The Bay Area has lost more than 11,000 tech jobs so far in 2025, a slump in hiring punctuated by disclosures of fresh layoffs in the region by some big players such as Google, Walmart and Microsoft.

The protracted hiring slump is a reminder that the tech industry is no longer a robust engine that helps to power the Bay Area economy.

The tech sector, instead, has begun to weigh down hiring in the Bay Area job market.

In the most recent rounds of layoffs, Walmart, Google and...