Tech Workers Are Just Like the Rest of Us: Miserable at Work Google, Meta and Amazon are piling on demands and taking away perks. A job in Silicon Valley just isn’t what it used to be.

As of mid-2024, Silicon Valley had 1.717 million jobs, according to the index. That was about 4,000 fewer than the 1.721 million jobs in the region as of mid-2023, or a 0.2% decline.

Business Insider’s Alistair Barr explains how Big Tech companies are turning away from the perks that defined Silicon Valley work culture a decade ago, to strict performance reviews.