The year has begun on a grim note for thousands of tech workers worldwide as global companies have already laid off more employees in the first five days of January than they did through the whole of December 2022.According to data from tracking website Layoffs Tracker, tech companies globally have already announced layoffs impacting 28,096 workers till the 5th of the month.Amazon, which this week announced layoffs impacting as many as 18,000 workers, accounts for more than half of the numbers so far.As our revenue accelerated through the pandemic, we hired too many people, leading into this economic downturn we’re now facing, and I take responsibility for that,” said Marc Benioff, co-CEO of Salesforce, in a letter to employees.Meta, which announced plans to let go of 11,000 workers in November, topped the chart for laying off the most people in 2022."