{"id":1008134,"date":"2026-05-16T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008134"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:36:42","slug":"linkedin-planning-to-lay-off-5-of-staff-in-latest-tech-sector-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/linkedin-planning-to-lay-off-5-of-staff-in-latest-tech-sector-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn planning to lay off 5% of staff in latest tech-sector cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: LinkedIn is preparing to announce layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a \u200cwidening \u2060of technology \u2060sector cuts this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut about 5% of staff as it reorganizes teams and focuses employees on areas where its business is growing, \u2060said one \u200cof the people, on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn&#8217;s headcount is more \u2060than 17,500 full-time employees globally, its website says. Reuters was unable to determine the teams affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: LinkedIn is preparing to announce layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a \u200cwidening \u2060of technology \u2060sector cuts this year. The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut about 5% of staff as it reorganizes teams and focuses employees on areas where its business is growing, \u2060said one \u200cof the people, on condition of anonymity. LinkedIn&#8217;s headcount is more \u2060than 17,500 full-time employees globally, its website says. Reuters was unable to determine the teams affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}