News Summary

• In a spreadsheet that the business data platform released in conjunction with its recent staffing cuts, you can clearly see the areas where the startup felt it could afford to scale back: sales roles of varying seniority, customer success staff, marketing and recruiting.
• Recruiting, marketing, and client-facing roles are other areas commonly affected when tech shops decide to trim costs.The recent layoffs at Crunchbase are a good example of this.
• )But there is change afoot in the realm of tech layoffs.If you study the Layoffs.fyi database of tech staff cuts, you can spot an interesting trend budding.
• Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.It isn’t surprising to see Microsoft cutting staff yet again, in addition to the roughly 10,000 workers it laid off earlier this year.
• The era of tech layoffs is not yet past, but it is losing some of its intensity and changing into a unique trend.The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.
• The tech giant is slashing its sales headcount, which is usually one of the areas that technology companies tend to pare down when budgets are reduced.