LinkedIn's announcement came amid a rise in job cuts in the tech industry this year. According to Layoffs.fyi, which tracks layoffs in the tech sector, 1,061 companies have laid off 24,2481 ...

Even as the overall job market remains strong, there has been a wave of recent layoffs in the tech and media industries — which just so happen to make up a core part of LinkedIn’s user base.

LinkedIn is laying off more than 660 workers across its engineering, product, talent and finance teams, the employment-focused social media site announced Monday. “Talent changes are a difficult ...

LinkedIn’s California layoffs affected workers at its offices in San Francisco, Mountain View, Carpinteria and Sunnyvale. More than half of those cuts hit its workforce in Mountain View.

LinkedIn said the layoffs will impact about 668 roles in a press release. "Talent changes are a difficult, but necessary and regular part of managing our business," the press release said.

The layoffs are all at least in the hundreds, and cite difficult economic times as the reason. Wall Street wasn’t impressed with LinkedIn’s parent company or Intel, but the job cuts have saved ...

The LinkedIn layoffs follow job cuts earlier this month at the job-seeking platform’s parent company, Microsoft. Earlier this month, Microsoft laid off 86 employees across several Bay Area offices.

The Microsoft-owned social media platform LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees, it said in a statement Monday. About 668 positions across the company's engineering, product, talent and ...

LinkedIn's latest layoffs affected workers at its offices in San Francisco, above, Mountain View, Carpinteria and Sunnyvale. Software engineers were hit particularly hard, according to data ...

Some LinkedIn users affected by recent layoffs have formed groups on the site aimed at providing assistance, coordinating around signing exit paperwork and aiding with connections for new jobs.