github has joined the list of technology companies that are cutting jobs the microsoftowned company has announced that it is laying off 10 of its workforce by the end of this fiscal year presently github has about 3000 employees along with the layoff the company has also announced that it is shutting down its offices and will completely move to work from home culturegithub will also continue to freeze hiringread alsotech layoffs disney announce 7000 job cutsthe entertainment conglomerate has described the latest job cuts as an effort to save 55 billion in costs and make its streaming business profitable these layoffs represent an estimated 36 of disneys global workforce however the job announcement had a positive impact on the companys sharegoogle is notifying canadian employees impacted by 12000 job cuts announced last monthhowever information about how many employees in the companys canada offices are due to be laid off and what departments are seeing the job cuts is not available reportedly those who have been laid off include software engineers and user experience designers in kitchener ontario google haswe announced a number of difficult but necessary decisions and budgetary realignments to both protect the health of our business in the short term and grant us the capacity to invest in our longterm strategy moving forward you can view our ceos full message to employees with additional details on these changes below a company spokesperson told techcrunch github ceo thomas dohmke wrote in an email to the companys staffalthough our entire leadership team has carefully deliberated this step and come to agreement ultimately as ceo the decision is mine i recognize this will be difficult on you all and we will approach this period with the utmost respect for every hubberunfortunately this will include changes that will result in a reduction of githubs workforce by up to 10 per cent through the end of fy23 the hiring pause that i announced on january 18 remains in effect he addedrecently zoom also announced job cuts eric yuan ceo of zoom announced that the company is laying off 1300 employees which translates to about 15 of its staff according to a memo from the ceo the job cuts are global in nature