Infographic | Layoffs by Indian companies across sectors in 2022

As part of Twitter’s mass layoffs, the fourth-largest layoff in the tech world since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, over 200 employees of the micro-blogging site in India lost their jobs on Friday.

The year has been rough for the tech industry with as many as 11,833 startup employees in India losing their jobs in 2022 across industries, according to the data compiled by layoffs.fyi.

The year started with optimism; no layoffs were reported in January. But the first quarter was grim, with 1,010 layoffs logged.

In the second quarter, between April to June, the most number of layoffs were reported, at 5,520, maximum executed in May. As many as 22 companies let go of workers in that quarter.