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Beijing layoffs, tracked in full.

Beijing has seen 2K job cuts across 12 tracked rounds since January 2020 — roughly 0.2% of all layoffs in our global dataset. The last 12 months alone saw 0 layoffs.

Last updated
City snapshot
2K
people laid off since Jan 2020
Companies tracked
11
active + historical
Rounds
12
total events
Top industry
Big Tech
56% of cuts
Global city rank
#55
by total headcount
Total since 2020
All time
2K
Across 12 roundsRank #55
Last 12 months
Recent
0
↓ 100% YoY
Companies tracked
Breadth
11
across 3 industriesBig Tech leads
Global city rank
vs cities
#55
0.2% of global totalof 201 cities
By industry · Beijing· Since 2020

Which industries cut deepest.

Big Tech
1 ROUNDS
56% of Beijing cuts
1,000
PEOPLE
Crypto
2 ROUNDS
32%
575
PEOPLE
Streaming
1 ROUNDS
11%
200
PEOPLE
Top companies · Beijing

Where the cuts landed.

Top companies
#01
IBM
BIG TECH · 1 ROUNDS
1,000
#02
Huobi
CRYPTO · 2 ROUNDS
575
#03
Hulu
STREAMING · 1 ROUNDS
200
#04
Cambricon
SEMICONDUCTORS · 1 ROUNDS
—
#05
Ziroom
PROPTECH · 1 ROUNDS
—
#06
Xiaomi
CONSUMER APPS · 1 ROUNDS
—
#07
Zhihu
CONSUMER APPS · 1 ROUNDS
—
Recent events · Beijing· Latest

The latest Beijing layoffs.

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Severity
Event
Location · When
Headcount
Source
High
I
IBM
IBM Layoffs — 2024-08-26
Beijing ·
1,000
reuters.com ↗
Low
MT
Moore Threads
Moore Threads Layoffs — 2023-11-06
Beijing ·
—
bloomberg.com ↗
Low
IS
iQiyi Smart
iQiyi Smart Layoffs — 2023-08-14
Beijing ·
—
caixinglobal.com ↗
Low
C
Cambricon
Cambricon Layoffs — 2023-07-31
Beijing ·
—
digitimes.com ↗
Low
H
Hulu
Hulu Layoffs — 2023-03-30
Beijing ·
200
pingwest.com ↗
High
H
Huobi
Huobi Layoffs — 2023-01-06
Beijing ·
275
reuters.com ↗
Low
G
Graphcore
Graphcore Layoffs — 2023-01-01
Beijing ·
—
bloomberg.com ↗
High
Z
Zhihu
Zhihu Layoffs — 2022-12-20
Beijing ·
—
pandaily.com ↗
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