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...
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1.1 Million Jobs Cut in 2025: October Posts Highest Layoffs in 22 Years as AI Reshapes American Workforce
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry American employers announced 153,074 job cuts in October 2025—the highest monthly total for October since 2003 and a staggering 175 percent increase from the same period last year. The announcement from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas brings 2025’s total job...
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...
Why Salesforce’s CEO Says “I Need Less Heads” After Cutting 4,000 Customer Support Jobs to AI Agents
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry Marc Benioff didn't mince words on The Logan Bartlett Show podcast. "I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads," the Salesforce CEO said, describing how artificial intelligence agents have replaced nearly half his customer support...