Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry When Tata Consultancy Services announced plans to eliminate 12,260 positions citing “skill mismatch,” few anticipated the actual scale of workforce reduction that followed. By the close of Q2 FY26, TCS’s headcount had plummeted by 19,755 employees—from 613,069 to 593,314—marking the steepest...
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Target and UPS Cut 36,000+ Jobs in Single Month as White-Collar AI Recession Takes Hold
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry The October 2025 announcements from Target and UPS—1,800 corporate reductions and disclosure of 34,000 year-to-date layoffs respectively—collectively eliminated over 36,000 positions during a single month. These aren’t pandemic corrections or recession responses. Both companies maintain strong financial performance while systematically reducing...
Meta’s 3,600 “Low Performer” Layoffs Mask Zuckerberg’s Plan to Replace Mid-Level Engineers with AI
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would cut 5 percent of its workforce—approximately 3,600 employees—the justification seemed straightforward: removing “low performers” to maintain the company’s competitive edge. But the timing and context reveal a far more significant strategic shift. Just days before...
Microsoft’s 15,000 Layoffs Reveal the $80 Billion AI Infrastructure Gamble Reshaping Corporate America
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry In a year defined by record stock market performance and ballooning profits, Microsoft has quietly executed one of the most significant corporate restructurings in its history—eliminating more than 15,000 jobs in just the first seven months of 2025. The layoffs, accounting...
Amazon’s 14,000 Corporate Layoffs Signal AI Is Coming for Middle Management First—Not Factory Workers
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry The irony couldn’t be sharper. Just days after news outlets circulated leaked Amazon documents suggesting the company could eventually replace 500,000 warehouse workers with robots, the e-commerce giant announced it was cutting 14,000 middle managers instead. The October 2025 announcement reveals...