AI layoff tracker

Reported scope: Around 95 jobs; approximately 8% of salaried central roles across support functions and distribution, removed since the FY26 year-end.

Dunelm reduced its central teams by approximately 8%, reported as around 95 support and distribution roles, while launching a broader efficiency and growth programme that includes greater use of AI and automation. The company did not say AI caused these specific reductions.

Reported scope: Approximately 261 roles, based on the announced reduction of about 3% of a worldwide workforce of more than 8,700; Zscaler did not publish an absolute figure.

Zscaler committed to reducing its worldwide workforce by approximately 3% while reallocating resources to support AI and growth initiatives. The company framed the action as resource reallocation, not direct replacement of employees by AI.

Reported scope: Around 50 employees, mostly in engineering and data roles, according to reporting

Pleo reportedly cut around 50 roles across product, tech, design, and data teams shortly after announcing finance AI agents. The timing and product pivot make the event AI-adjacent, but available reporting says the agents target customer finance workflows rather than directly replacing the laid-off internal engineering and data roles.

Reported scope: Nearly 250 India-based employees; a small subset stayed temporarily to complete transition work.

Opendoor began winding down its India-based operations, affecting nearly 250 employees, as CEO Kaz Nejatian said manual workflows were being centralized near US customers and supported by smaller AI-native customer-facing teams and unified tools.

Reported scope: At least 117 California roles: 54 in Santa Clara and 63 in San Diego; broader reporting described hundreds of staff

ServiceNow disclosed California layoffs affecting at least 117 workers across Santa Clara and San Diego, while broader reporting described a three-figure reduction. The company said it was investing in AI-focused skills and managing headcount with discipline as it generated real AI efficiencies inside the business.

Reported scope: Hundreds of developer jobs globally; about 8% of Shopee developer workforce

Sea-owned Shopee reportedly cut hundreds of developer jobs globally, amounting to about 8% of its developer workforce, during a broader AI pivot. Reporting said the cuts affected roles such as quality assurance and coincided with Sea doubling down on AI, but also noted it was unclear whether the move was directly tied to Sea’s AI forays.

Reported scope: 86 jobs across California, Washington, and international teams, according to reporting

Salesforce reportedly cut 86 jobs across Agentforce, MuleSoft, Marketing Cloud, and related functions in another 2026 workforce reduction. The reductions landed around AI-agent and cloud businesses while Salesforce continued investing in Agentforce, making this a distinct June 2026 reshaping event from its earlier February 2025 and 2026 reductions.

Reported scope: 23% of Uber's People and Places division; less than 1% of Uber's global workforce

Uber cut 23% of its People and Places division as part of an internal reorganization under new leadership. The cuts occurred amid heavy AI spending and broader AI-efficiency commentary in tech, but Uber said the decision was not related to artificial intelligence.

Reported scope: Nearly 50 employees, according to Inc42 reporting

Interview Kickstart reportedly laid off nearly 50 employees amid an AI automation push. Reporting framed the reduction as occurring while the career-prep company automated workflows and changed its operating model.

Reported scope: Reported 7% to 10% workforce reduction, roughly 2,000 to 2,900 jobs; 2,500 used as midpoint estimate

Amdocs reportedly prepared a 7% to 10% workforce reduction, roughly 2,000 to 2,900 jobs, as part of a reorganization under new CEO Shimie Hortig that centralizes AI into a new division. The company had not confirmed final figures in available reporting.

Reported scope: Roughly 20% of staff; just over 1,000 affected individuals based on 5,277 employees at the end of Q1 2026

Wix announced a company-wide reduction of roughly 20% of staff. CEO Avishai Abrahami cited both shekel-dollar exchange-rate pressure and the fast evolution of AI capabilities, saying Wix needed to become a faster, leaner, flatter organization built around AI-native ways of working.

Reported scope: Undisclosed number of employees; company described many teammates leaving

Webflow restructured its team and operating model, with CEO Linda Tong saying many employees were leaving as the company rebuilt around an agentic web marketing platform. Tong said AI was rewriting how marketing teams create, test, and optimize digital experiences and that Webflow needed to change the size and shape of the team.

Reported scope: Up to 400 positions globally, including employees and contractors, with most reductions expected by the end of Q3 2026

Groupon approved an initial restructuring phase that will reduce up to 400 positions globally, including employees and contractors. The company said the plan relates to its strategy to rebuild Groupon as an AI-native company and is also evaluating additional cost-reduction and automation actions tied to Project Foundry.

Reported scope: 2,250 employees, or 11% of the company's total workforce, primarily in U.S.-based operations

Acrisure announced it would reduce headcount by about 2,250 roles, or 11% of its workforce, in phases through 2027. CEO Greg Williams cited AI, data, automation, and digital platforms as changing how work is done and reducing manual work.

Reported scope: About 3,000 employees, or 17% of staff; San Diego reporting identified 277 local roles

Intuit cut about 3,000 employees in a May 2026 restructuring. Reporting linked the reduction to an AI refocus, but CEO Sasan Goodarzi later told CNBC the workforce cut had 'nothing to do with AI', making the attribution disputed.

Reported scope: around 7,800

Standard Chartered announced plans to cut approximately 7,800 back-office roles by 2030, citing the increased adoption of automation, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence to improve internal efficiency.

Reported scope: Around 340 roles across India and the United States, primarily outside the United States

Healthtech company Innovaccer cut around 340 roles while restructuring around an AI-native operating model. A company spokesperson said Innovaccer was applying its own automation principles internally and reducing the size of its team to become leaner, faster, and more outcome-focused.

Reported scope: roughly 25% of the workforce

NASDAQ-listed performance-marketing operator Gambling.com Group announced an 'AI-led restructure' that cuts roughly 25% of its workforce, with CEO Kevin McCrystle framing the move as adopting AI-first working principles to operate with smaller, more flexible teams while accelerating product and marketing output. The announcement accompanied a guidance cut for 2026.

Cisco announced a reduction of 4,000 jobs as part of a corporate restructuring to position itself as 'critical infrastructure for the AI era.' The company also cited hyperscaler capex trends as a contributing factor for the workforce reduction.

Reported scope: 25% of staff

Crypto data analytics company Dune cut 25% of its team as CEO Fredrik Haga said the company was restructuring to sharpen focus on its 'core data products' and pivot toward AI-powered tools and institutional onchain data customers.

Reported scope: Undisclosed number of layoffs; Puck reported ~20 but a Goop spokesperson disputed the figure

Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop laid off staff as part of what reports characterised as a pivot toward AI-driven workflows, with a company spokesperson framing the cuts as adapting to a shifting landscape and operating more efficiently. The specific headcount remains in dispute between reporting outlets and the company.

Reported scope: at least 200 full-time employees over the next two quarters (about 10% of the ~2,000-person workforce)

Pan-African e-commerce operator Jumia disclosed in its Q1 2026 report and follow-up CEO commentary that it will reduce headcount by at least 200 full-time employees (about 10% of staff) over the coming two quarters, with CEO Francis Dufay framing the savings as 'mainly driven by AI' as the company expands process automation and AI tooling internally.

Reported scope: Around 350 jobs, or roughly 14% of global workforce; follows the May 2026 voluntary separation/restructuring process.

GitLab's May 2026 restructuring progressed into a plan to cut around 350 jobs, or roughly 14% of its global workforce, while narrowing its geographic footprint and refocusing investment on higher-priority initiatives including AI-powered tools.

Reported scope: approximately 600 salaried IT workers (around 10% of the IT department)

General Motors laid off roughly 600 IT staff — about 10% of its IT department — as part of a deliberate shift to clear out legacy roles and bring in workers with stronger AI skills. Former employees told reporters that managers framed the cuts around an AI-driven transformation of the company's tech function.

Reported scope: More than 1,100 employees globally (about 20% of workforce)

Cloudflare cut more than 1,100 employees globally as it reorganized around an 'agentic AI era' operating model, saying it needed to architect the company differently because AI had fundamentally changed how work gets done.

Reported scope: ~700 (≈14% of workforce)

Coinbase cut ~14% of staff, with CEO Brian Armstrong citing AI as the catalyst for restructuring around 'lean, fast, and AI-native' teams — including experiments with single-person teams that combine engineer, designer and product manager work.

Reported scope: 53 employees announced in late April; layoffs fully take effect June 30.

The California Academy of Sciences announced 53 layoffs to close an $8 million-plus budget deficit, while employees and union representatives warned that AI and outside contractors could replace some departing workers’ functions; management said the layoffs were not a plan to replace people with AI.

Reported scope: around 4,000 jobs under 'Project Leap' restructuring

Cognizant announced a roughly 4,000-job restructuring program — internally called 'Project Leap' — at its Q1 2026 earnings, with management saying the goal is to build a 'properly sized, AI-enabled' workforce as the company leans further into AI-led delivery and weaker demand pressures its outlook.

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

Reported scope: ~8,000 (~10% of workforce); 6,000 open roles also scrapped

Meta announced ~10% workforce reduction and scrapped 6,000 open positions to fund $125–145B in 2026 AI capex. CEO Mark Zuckerberg explicitly tied the cuts to AI-driven productivity, calling 2026 the year AI 'dramatically' changes work.

Reported scope: around 1,000 employees (about 16% of global workforce); an additional 300 open roles will not be filled

Snap announced it would cut around 1,000 staff — about 16% of its global workforce — with CEO Evan Spiegel telling employees in a regulatory-filed memo that rapid AI advancements let teams 'reduce repetitive work' and 'increase velocity'. The company also said AI now generates more than 65% of its new code.

Reported scope: TIME reported up to 30,000 workers laid off in the month leading up to 1 May 2026; other outlets put the range at roughly 20,000–30,000. Oracle has not confirmed a figure.

Oracle laid off up to 30,000 workers in the month leading up to 1 May 2026 while pushing aggressively into AI and data-center expansion, but the strongest claims that workers were training AI systems that would replace them come from employee accounts and secondary reporting rather than a direct company admission.

Reported scope: ~1,600 employees, or ~10% of Atlassian's workforce

Atlassian announced a reduction of about 1,600 employees, or 10% of its workforce, to self-fund additional AI and enterprise sales investment. CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said Atlassian was not taking an 'AI replaces people' approach, but acknowledged AI changes the skill mix and number of roles required in some areas.

Reported scope: Reversal of prior 700-agent AI replacement claim; staged rehire of human support

Klarna publicly walked back its all-AI customer service strategy, with CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski admitting the company 'went too far' and beginning to rehire human agents under a flexible (Uber-like) model. This is the canonical disputed/reversed AI-replacement case.

Reported scope: ~4,000 (≈40% of workforce)

Block (parent of Square and Cash App) cut ~40% of its workforce. CEO Jack Dorsey explicitly tied the move to AI productivity, predicting most companies would make similar cuts within a year.

Reported scope: About 2,000 roles over 18 months, roughly 29% of a 7,000-person workforce across 40 countries

WiseTech Global announced about 2,000 redundancies over 18 months as part of an AI transformation. CEO Zubin Appoo described the changes as a deliberate AI transformation journey and said AI would support a leaner, more efficient organization.

Reported scope: ~35% of small-team managers; 1,500–3,000 engineers via rolling cuts

Google cut ~35% of managers supervising three or fewer reports, alongside rolling engineering performance cuts, as Sundar Pichai pushed an AI-first 'efficiency' theme. Q1 2026 capex hit $36B (up 107% YoY).

Reported scope: ~700 (~15% of global workforce)

Pinterest cut ~15% of staff, with CEO Bill Ready explicitly framing the restructure around an 'AI-forward strategy' and hiring of AI-proficient talent. $35–45M in pre-tax restructuring charges expected.

Reported scope: 4,000–6,000 by FY2028 (≈10% of 58,000 workforce)

HP announced 4,000–6,000 cuts by fiscal 2028 alongside ~$1B in run-rate savings. CEO Enrique Lores directly cited AI productivity gains and a company-wide AI program reporting to him. HP said internal AI tooling had already delivered 16% productivity improvement.

Reported scope: 60–80 (≈30% of workforce)

Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch cut 60–80 roles, primarily security analysts, while launching its NEXA agentic AI platform. CEO John DiLullo cited AI investment as the rationale; current/former staff publicly questioned that framing.

Reported scope: Few hundred HR roles + 'thousands' broader Q4 cuts

Arvind Krishna told media IBM had replaced 'a few hundred' HR staff with AI agents (AskHR), reallocating savings to programmer and sales hires. IBM's overall headcount grew despite the AI-driven cuts to administrative functions; the framing is 'displacement and reallocation' rather than net reduction.

Reported scope: ~14,000 corporate workers

Amazon cut ~14,000 corporate roles in late October 2025, framed as part of a 'leaner, less bureaucratic' restructuring to free up investment for AI infrastructure. CEO Andy Jassy's parallel commentary tied the cut to ongoing AI strategy.

Reported scope: 500+

Paycom eliminated 500+ back-office and non-client-facing roles, explicitly tying the cuts to AI automation. The company simultaneously raised its 2025 revenue and profit guidance, citing strong demand for its AI-driven products.

Reported scope: ~450 (175 in NL)

Just Eat Takeaway cut ~450 jobs globally, with 175 in the Netherlands, as it deployed AI assistants for customer support. The company said human support would not disappear entirely but would be reserved for escalations.

Reported scope: ~250 (≈30% of workforce)

Fiverr cut ~30% of its workforce (~250 roles) as CEO Micha Kaufman pivoted the company to be 'AI-first', flatter, and built around higher per-employee productivity.

Reported scope: Hundreds of AWS roles

Amazon cut hundreds of AWS roles across AI, analytics, training and marketing. The company explicitly told media that AI was 'not the main factor', though the cuts came amid Andy Jassy's broader push to fund AI investments by reducing corporate headcount.

Reported scope: ~150 customer support roles

Atlassian cut ~150 customer support roles, framing the move as platform improvements reducing support volume. The company explicitly denied AI was the primary driver, but the cuts coincided with the rollout of AI-powered support deflection tools, putting it in dispute.

Reported scope: ~1,300 (≈6% of HR-tech workforce)

Recruit Holdings cut ~1,300 jobs across Indeed and Glassdoor and folded Glassdoor into Indeed. CEO Hisayuki 'Deko' Idekoba's memo explicitly cited AI as the rationale.

Reported scope: ~9,000

Microsoft cut ~9,000 employees in July 2025 — its second major round of the year. Satya Nadella's follow-up memo described the cuts as the 'enigma of success' as the company invested record sums in AI infrastructure while letting people go.

Reported scope: ~21% of staff

Business Insider laid off ~21% of staff and pivoted to live events and AI-driven content. CEO Barbara Peng told staff 'we are going all-in on AI', noting 70% of employees were already using Enterprise ChatGPT.

Reported scope: ~5,000 (≈10% of headcount over 18 months)

McKinsey's headcount fell ~10% over 18 months, with reporting attributing the decline to slowing client demand and to internal AI tools (notably 'Lilli') automating tasks previously done by junior consultants. The firm disputes the 'layoff' framing, calling the reduction a result of stricter performance management.

Reported scope: ≈40% workforce reduction since 2022 (from ~5,000 to ~3,000) attributed in part to AI

CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told CNBC that Klarna had shrunk its workforce by ~40% since 2022, in part by deploying AI for customer service. Klarna later partially walked back the AI-only customer-service strategy (see klarna-2026-reversal); flagged as disputed because of subsequent rehiring.

Reported scope: ~6,000 (3% of workforce)

Microsoft cut ~6,000 roles in May 2025 as it ramped AI capex toward $80B for FY25. The company framed cuts as flattening management layers; reporting interpreted them as making room for AI infrastructure spend.

Reported scope: ~500 (5% of workforce)

CrowdStrike cut ~5% of its workforce, with CEO George Kurtz citing AI as flattening hiring needs. Industry analysts publicly questioned whether AI was the genuine driver or financial cover, given parallel financial pressure.

Reported scope: 10 of 12 technical writers

Canva laid off 10 of its 12 technical writers after first directing them to use generative AI tools more heavily. Affected workers told media they had been previously assured AI adoption would not lead to redundancies. Canva's official line was that it was 'evolving' the function.

Reported scope: ~1,750 (8.5% of workforce)

Workday cut ~1,750 roles to redirect investment toward AI. CEO Carl Eschenbach's memo explicitly cited 'increasing demand for artificial intelligence' and the company's pivot to an AI agent platform.

Reported scope: ~1,000

Salesforce cut ~1,000 employees while simultaneously hiring sellers for its Agentforce AI product. CEO Marc Benioff later told CNBC the company had reduced customer-service staff by ~4,000 because 'I need less heads' with AI agents handling more interactions.

Reported scope: <500 in Malaysia (initial Reuters reports said ~700)

TikTok laid off hundreds of Malaysia-based content moderators, citing a shift to AI-driven moderation. The company said 80% of policy-violating content is now removed by automated systems, though it disputed the higher headcount figures reported initially.

Reported scope: ~5,600 (7% of workforce)

Cisco's second 2024 layoff cut ~5,600 roles. CEO Chuck Robbins explicitly framed the cuts as redirecting investment into AI networking, security and silicon. This followed an earlier February 2024 cut of ~4,000 roles.

Reported scope: 1,800 (10% of workforce)

Intuit cut 1,800 employees, with CEO Sasan Goodarzi explicitly tying the move to GenAI strategy. The memo noted parallel hiring of 1,800 new staff in AI-priority roles, framing the cuts as reallocation, not cost reduction.

Reported scope: Equivalent of 700 full-time customer service agents

Klarna and OpenAI announced an AI assistant doing the work of 700 full-time customer service agents in its first month, handling two-thirds of customer chats. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski projected $40M in annual profit improvement. The company did not disclose direct layoffs at announcement but had reduced headcount via attrition and prior layoffs.

Reported scope: 12,000 management positions

UPS cut 12,000 management roles, with CEO Carol Tomé citing machine learning enabling salespeople to generate proposals without executive pricing input. The cut was framed as a productivity-and-AI play; broader macro headwinds (revenue down ~9.3%) also contributed.

Reported scope: ~700 (≈1% of workforce)

Salesforce cut ~700 roles in January 2024, primarily in sales and marketing. The announcement itself did not name AI; CEO Marc Benioff later acknowledged in 2025 that AI agents were doing 30–50% of the company's work, recontextualising 2024 cuts as an early step toward AI-driven role consolidation.

Reported scope: 1,000+ across ads, hardware and Assistant

Google cut over 1,000 roles across ads, hardware and Assistant teams. CEO Sundar Pichai's memo framed the cuts as redirecting investment to 'big priorities' — widely interpreted by media as Google's AI push, though Pichai did not name AI as the direct reason for individual role eliminations.

Reported scope: ~10% of contractor workforce

Duolingo cut about 10% of its contractor base in early January 2024, with affected roles concentrated in translation. A company spokesperson acknowledged AI was 'part of' the rationale, while emphasising that human experts continued to validate AI-generated content. Workers reported being told their tasks were being absorbed by GPT-4.

Reported scope: ~200 near-term redundancies (≈20% of newsroom), reported as digital restructuring — not a verified AI-replacement count

Germany's largest tabloid Bild announced ~200 newsroom redundancies as part of a digital-first restructuring. An internal memo said colleagues would be let go where tasks 'are performed by AI and/or automated processes,' naming editors, proofreaders and photo editors among the roles affected. Reporting separates two scopes: the ~200 near-term redundancies, described as restructuring rather than AI-driven, and further AI-related reductions signalled for a later phase. A Bild spokesperson told CNN the restructuring job losses had 'nothing to do with the use of AI'. The memo language is explicit; whether it applies to this headcount is contested.

Reported scope: ~4% of workforce (~50 employees)

Chegg cut ~4% of staff after disclosing in May 2023 that ChatGPT was eroding subscriber growth. The June 2023 reduction was framed by the company as a strategic shift to embrace AI; subsequent rounds in 2024–2025 deepened the cuts as ChatGPT continued to displace its homework-help business.

Reported scope: Up to 55,000 by 2030 (≈42% of workforce); ~10,000 attributed to AI/automation

BT Group announced plans to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030 as it completed its fibre rollout. BT and CEO Philip Jansen told media that around a fifth of the cuts — roughly 10,000 roles — would be attributable to AI and automation, including customer service handled by chatbots.

Reported scope: ~7,800 jobs over five years (≈30% of non-customer-facing roles)

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg the company would pause hiring for back-office roles he expected AI and automation to replace, projecting around 30% of non-customer-facing positions (~7,800 jobs) could be displaced over five years. IBM clarified there was no company-wide freeze — the pause was selective and HR roles were named as a priority.

Reported scope: ~500 (16% of workforce)

Dropbox laid off 500 employees, framed by CEO Drew Houston as positioning the company for the 'AI era of computing'. The internal memo cited slowing growth alongside the AI strategic shift, and the company subsequently invested heavily in AI-native products (Dropbox Dash).