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AI layoff register

All tracked events

Every AI-attributed layoff on the public record. Sorted by most recent. Each entry carries a verbatim quote and is confidence-graded.

May 15, 2026
Gambling.com Group Medium

NASDAQ-listed performance-marketing operator Gambling.com Group announced an 'AI-led restructure' that cuts roughly 25…

May 14, 2026
Cisco −4,000 High

Cisco announced a reduction of 4,000 jobs as part of a corporate restructuring to position itself as 'critical infrast…

May 14, 2026
Dune High

Crypto data analytics company Dune cut 25% of its team as CEO Fredrik Haga said the company was restructuring to sharp…

May 13, 2026
Goop Medium

Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop laid off staff as part of what reports characterised as a pivot toward AI-drive…

May 13, 2026
Jumia −200 High

Pan-African e-commerce operator Jumia disclosed in its Q1 2026 report and follow-up CEO commentary that it will reduce…

May 12, 2026
GitLab Medium

GitLab has launched a voluntary separation program as part of a corporate restructuring to pivot the company toward an…

May 11, 2026
General Motors −600 Medium

General Motors laid off roughly 600 IT staff — about 10% of its IT department — as part of a deliberate shift to clear…

May 7, 2026
Cloudflare −1,100 High

Cloudflare cut more than 1,100 employees globally as it reorganized around an 'agentic AI era' operating model, saying…

May 5, 2026
Coinbase −700 Medium

Coinbase cut ~14% of staff, with CEO Brian Armstrong citing AI as the catalyst for restructuring around 'lean, fast, a…

Apr 29, 2026
Cognizant −4,000 High

Cognizant announced a roughly 4,000-job restructuring program — internally called 'Project Leap' — at its Q1 2026 earn…

Apr 27, 2026
Vertex −170 High

Vertex announced 170 job cuts as part of a restructuring plan aimed at becoming an 'AI-enabled' company and improving…

Apr 23, 2026
Meta −8,000 High

Meta announced ~10% workforce reduction and scrapped 6,000 open positions to fund $125–145B in 2026 AI capex. CEO Mark…

Apr 15, 2026
Snap −1,000 High

Snap announced it would cut around 1,000 staff — about 16% of its global workforce — with CEO Evan Spiegel telling emp…

Mar 31, 2026
Oracle −30,000 Disputed

Oracle laid off up to 30,000 workers in the month leading up to 1 May 2026 while pushing aggressively into AI and data…

Mar 1, 2026
Klarna Disputed

Klarna publicly walked back its all-AI customer service strategy, with CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski admitting the compa…

Feb 26, 2026
Block −4,000 High

Block (parent of Square and Cash App) cut ~40% of its workforce. CEO Jack Dorsey explicitly tied the move to AI produc…

Jan 27, 2026
Alphabet (Google) −2,000 Medium

Google cut ~35% of managers supervising three or fewer reports, alongside rolling engineering performance cuts, as Sun…

Jan 27, 2026
Pinterest −700 High

Pinterest cut ~15% of staff, with CEO Bill Ready explicitly framing the restructure around an 'AI-forward strategy' an…

Nov 25, 2025
HP High

HP announced 4,000–6,000 cuts by fiscal 2028 alongside ~$1B in run-rate savings. CEO Enrique Lores directly cited AI p…

Nov 12, 2025
Deepwatch −80 Medium

Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch cut 60–80 roles, primarily security analysts, while launching its NEXA agentic AI platfor…

Nov 5, 2025
IBM High

Arvind Krishna told media IBM had replaced 'a few hundred' HR staff with AI agents (AskHR), reallocating savings to pr…

Oct 28, 2025
Amazon −14,000 High

Amazon cut ~14,000 corporate roles in late October 2025, framed as part of a 'leaner, less bureaucratic' restructuring…

Oct 1, 2025
Paycom −500 High

Paycom eliminated 500+ back-office and non-client-facing roles, explicitly tying the cuts to AI automation. The compan…

Sep 25, 2025
Just Eat Takeaway −450 High

Just Eat Takeaway cut ~450 jobs globally, with 175 in the Netherlands, as it deployed AI assistants for customer suppo…

Sep 15, 2025
Fiverr −250 High

Fiverr cut ~30% of its workforce (~250 roles) as CEO Micha Kaufman pivoted the company to be 'AI-first', flatter, and…

Jul 15, 2025
Amazon (AWS) Low

Amazon cut hundreds of AWS roles across AI, analytics, training and marketing. The company explicitly told media that…

Jul 15, 2025
Atlassian −150 Medium

Atlassian cut ~150 customer support roles, framing the move as platform improvements reducing support volume. The comp…

Jul 10, 2025
Recruit Holdings (Indeed + Glassdoor) −1,300 High

Recruit Holdings cut ~1,300 jobs across Indeed and Glassdoor and folded Glassdoor into Indeed. CEO Hisayuki 'Deko' Ide…

Jul 2, 2025
Microsoft −9,000 High

Microsoft cut ~9,000 employees in July 2025 — its second major round of the year. Satya Nadella's follow-up memo descr…

May 29, 2025
Business Insider High

Business Insider laid off ~21% of staff and pivoted to live events and AI-driven content. CEO Barbara Peng told staff…

May 29, 2025
McKinsey & Company −5,000 Medium

McKinsey's headcount fell ~10% over 18 months, with reporting attributing the decline to slowing client demand and to…

May 14, 2025
Klarna Disputed

CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told CNBC that Klarna had shrunk its workforce by ~40% since 2022, in part by deploying AI…

May 13, 2025
Microsoft −6,000 Medium

Microsoft cut ~6,000 roles in May 2025 as it ramped AI capex toward $80B for FY25. The company framed cuts as flatteni…

May 7, 2025
CrowdStrike −500 Medium

CrowdStrike cut ~5% of its workforce, with CEO George Kurtz citing AI as flattening hiring needs. Industry analysts pu…

Mar 28, 2025
Canva −10 High

Canva laid off 10 of its 12 technical writers after first directing them to use generative AI tools more heavily. Affe…

Feb 5, 2025
Workday −1,750 High

Workday cut ~1,750 roles to redirect investment toward AI. CEO Carl Eschenbach's memo explicitly cited 'increasing dem…

Feb 4, 2025
Salesforce −1,000 High

Salesforce cut ~1,000 employees while simultaneously hiring sellers for its Agentforce AI product. CEO Marc Benioff la…

Oct 11, 2024
TikTok (ByteDance) −500 Medium

TikTok laid off hundreds of Malaysia-based content moderators, citing a shift to AI-driven moderation. The company sai…

Aug 14, 2024
Cisco −5,600 High

Cisco's second 2024 layoff cut ~5,600 roles. CEO Chuck Robbins explicitly framed the cuts as redirecting investment in…

Jul 10, 2024
Intuit −1,800 High

Intuit cut 1,800 employees, with CEO Sasan Goodarzi explicitly tying the move to GenAI strategy. The memo noted parall…

Feb 27, 2024
Klarna −700 High

Klarna and OpenAI announced an AI assistant doing the work of 700 full-time customer service agents in its first month…

Jan 30, 2024
UPS −12,000 High

UPS cut 12,000 management roles, with CEO Carol Tomé citing machine learning enabling salespeople to generate proposal…

Jan 26, 2024
Salesforce −700 Low

Salesforce cut ~700 roles in January 2024, primarily in sales and marketing. The announcement itself did not name AI;…

Jan 17, 2024
Google −1,000 Medium

Google cut over 1,000 roles across ads, hardware and Assistant teams. CEO Sundar Pichai's memo framed the cuts as redi…

Jan 8, 2024
Duolingo High

Duolingo cut about 10% of its contractor base in early January 2024, with affected roles concentrated in translation.…

Jun 19, 2023
Axel Springer (Bild) −200 High

Germany's largest tabloid Bild announced ~200 newsroom job cuts as part of a digital-first transformation. An internal…

Jun 12, 2023
Chegg −50 Medium

Chegg cut ~4% of staff after disclosing in May 2023 that ChatGPT was eroding subscriber growth. The June 2023 reductio…

May 18, 2023
BT Group −55,000 High

BT Group announced plans to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030 as it completed its fibre rollout. BT and CEO Philip Jansen…

May 1, 2023
IBM −7,800 High

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg the company would pause hiring for back-office roles he expected AI and automati…

Apr 27, 2023
Dropbox −500 High

Dropbox laid off 500 employees, framed by CEO Drew Houston as positioning the company for the 'AI era of computing'. T…