SINGAPORE – Cost management, adjustments to over-hiring during Covid-19 and the emergence of new automation technologies have all contributed to a spate of layoffs in the tech sector in recent years.
Music-streaming platform Spotify, for example, had three rounds of layoffs in 2023, and let a total of about 2,300 employees go that year.
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