Amid massive firing in Microsoft, Amazon, is LinkedIn on a hiring freeze? Internet responds

As mass layoffs continue to shake the global tech industry, questions are surfacing about whether companies — especially LinkedIn — are pausing their hiring. Microsoft recently laid off nearly 3% of its workforce, its largest cut in over two years. The situation is not isolated to the U.S. — in Canada, the labour market also took a hit, with a net loss of 32,600 jobs in March, marking the country’s first employment decline in over three years. This came after stagnant growth in February and a strong hiring spree from November through January. Canada’s unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7% in March from 6.6% the previous month.