Assignment-6

Sankey Diagram: Companies & Layoffs

INSIGHTS

1. Amazon has laid off 18,000 employees from various departments in their organization, with higher numbers in HR/Talent (6.73k), Software Engineering (5.18k), Project/Program Management (1.04k), QA (558) and Data Science (486).

2. Meta follows with 11,000 layoffs in HR/Talent with 3,280, Software development with 2,010, Marketing with 1,110 and around 500 layoffs each in PR/Comms&Strategy, Analytics and UI/UX.

3. Microsoft comes 3rd with 9,980 layoffs (half of Amazon’s 18k) with 3,940 from HR/Talent, 1,340 from Software development, around 650 each in Program Management and Cloud/Data Centers and 350 each in UI/UX and Marketing departments.

4. Twitter has seen major layoffs (4.4k) in Software development (1.04k), followed by Marketing, PR/Comms&Strategy, Customer Success and HR/Talent.

Conclusion

Major layoffs can be seen in HR/Talent(14.2k) and Software development(9.58k) departments. Marketing is the 3rd, with 2,020 layoffs from Microsoft, Meta and Twitter. (over 50% of which is from Meta with 1.11k layoffs). All other departments addup to 11,600 layoffs.