In only the first two weeks of the month alone, businesses from all over the world let go of over 38,000 workers. According to information obtained by Business Today from the data aggregator, there have been layoffs. FYI, as of November 16, there had been 37,866 job terminations worldwide. The social networking site Facebook's parent company, Meta, has seen the biggest round of layoffs to date. On November 9, the business let go of 11,000 employees. On November 16, Amazon let go of 10,000 staff members.