AI layoff tracker

Reported scope: 10% of global workforce

SUSE announced a 10% reduction of its global workforce, citing industry shifts driven by AI and automation, following an internal memo from CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen.

Barclays announced a reduction of 5,000 jobs, or approximately 5% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring plan aimed at structural cost reductions through AI-driven technology efficiency.

Reported scope: around 70% of financial adviser roles and around half of management and specialist roles in the UK wealth management division

HSBC is cutting a significant portion of its UK wealth management division, including approximately 70% of financial adviser roles, as part of a restructuring effort centered on increasing reliance on generative AI to improve operational efficiency.

BMW announced a restructuring plan that includes a redundancy program expected to impact approximately 8,000 jobs in Germany as part of a strategy to streamline operations and improve margins using AI.

Thinkific eliminated 96 positions in a September 2026 reorganization focused on its Thinkific Plus enterprise offering, cost savings and free cash flow. Its CEO said the changes would also support investment in AI-first products, but the company did not claim AI automation directly replaced those employees.

Reported scope: 8 planned editorial secretary eliminations at Gisi; the court suspended the plan before completion

Infopro Digital subsidiary Gisi planned to eliminate eight editorial secretary positions and replace much of their work with AI-supported roles. A French court suspended the plan pending real-world testing of the AI system; five employees had already received pre-dismissal interview letters.

Reported scope: Unconfirmed. Employees tracking Slack member counts estimated the US workforce shrank by roughly 3,200 around 14 September; Oracle has not confirmed a figure, and the estimate is not a verified AI-replacement count.

Oracle cut jobs in mid-September 2026, with reported losses at its Abilene, Texas Stargate data center as well as in Phoenix and Ashburn. Days earlier, Oracle's quarterly filing said its 2026 restructuring plan aims to improve operational efficiencies partly through adopting AI across certain functions and added about $700 million for further actions. No source confirms that this specific round affected those functions, so the AI attribution remains unclear.

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: more than 200

Apple cut more than 200 roles across Vision Pro, Siri and Intelligent Systems Experience. Reporting directly links the Siri and AI-team changes to a new AI architecture, while the Vision Pro reductions were also driven by product and content strategy.

Reported scope: approximately 14% of roles across all functions

Anaconda initiated a company-wide restructuring affecting approximately 14% of its workforce, citing a strategic shift to become an 'AI-native' platform and the operational efficiencies provided by AI tools across all internal functions.

Reported scope: approximately 12% of workforce

Rapid7 is reducing its workforce by approximately 12% as part of a restructuring to shift resources toward its core platform and AI-powered security operations.

Reported scope: approximately 5 percent of global workforce

Nutanix announced a 5% global workforce reduction to realign its organizational structure, explicitly citing the need to invest in strategic priorities including AI and modern application platforms.

Reported scope: 20% of workforce

VideoAmp has reduced its workforce by 20% as part of an 'AI push,' which included the elimination of the CTO role.

Reported scope: 107 employees

On The Beach made 107 employees redundant after automating and streamlining booking-fulfilment work. CEO Shaun Morton said the change carried a headcount cost but was intended to increase scale and service capacity rather than simply cut costs.

Reported scope: nearly 150 employees

Chime announced a 10% workforce reduction, impacting approximately 150 employees, as part of a strategic restructuring aimed at achieving efficiency gains through AI and creating a flatter organizational structure.

Reported scope: about 2,600 roles globally (roughly 7% of the workforce), primarily in technology and product

Visa announced plans to eliminate about 2,600 roles, primarily in technology and product, as part of an efficiency and reinvestment programme. CEO Ryan McInerney said AI was accelerating the operational shift and changing how work is performed at Visa.

Reported scope: Unspecified number of roles eliminated within the AGI organization.

Amazon confirmed a new round of layoffs impacting its AGI (artificial general intelligence) division as part of a continued workforce restructuring to prioritize AI development. The company stated the cuts were necessary to shift focus toward high-priority AI initiatives.

Reported scope: approximately 620 employees, about 20% of the workforce

monday.com initiated a restructuring reducing its workforce by about 20%, or approximately 620 employees, to align the organisation with its AI Work Platform strategy and a leaner operating model. Management said the redesign was not a claim that AI directly replaced the affected employees.

Reported scope: The company reported 'significant workforce reductions' concentrated in brokerage operations, to be substantially completed by the end of Q3 2026.

Freight Technologies is reducing its workforce and brokerage operations as part of a restructuring plan to transition into a pure-play AI logistics software company. The company aims to prioritize its AI-powered platform and software-as-a-service offerings.

Sprout Social began notifying approximately 260 employees of a 20% workforce reduction after its board approved a plan to streamline the organisation and align costs with strategic priorities, including investment in AI-powered social intelligence.

Reported scope: 12 utilization review nurses

Montefiore Health System laid off 12 utilization review nurses. Their union alleges AI-powered software replaced work involving chart review and insurance claims; Montefiore called that account inaccurate and misleading, making the AI causality disputed.

Reported scope: 100-120

GoKwik initiated a restructuring that resulted in the layoff of 100-120 employees, citing a strategic push toward AI-driven automation of its business operations.

Reported scope: up to 1,800

Allianz Partners plans to eliminate up to 1,800 roles across Europe as increasing AI use automates customer-service, claims and assistance work. The company said it would use voluntary departures and explore redeployment or reskilling where possible.

Reported scope: about 203 roles (15% of a roughly 1,350-person workforce; calculated from source figures)

Mews is laying off 15% of its workforce as part of a restructuring where the company pivots toward an AI-integrated service model, with the founder stating that AI has made certain roles obsolete.

Yield Guild Games shut its YGG Play publishing arm and laid off 35 employees after concluding the crypto and Web3 publishing markets were not commercially sustainable. The company said the restructuring would extend its runway and redirect resources into an AI data business.

Starling Bank is cutting 130 jobs, representing approximately 3% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring to simplify operations and increase investment in artificial intelligence to reduce costs.

Reported scope: 9,000 employees total (5,500 job cuts, 3,500 roles outsourced)

British American Tobacco announced that its Fit2Win transformation would affect 9,000 roles: about 5,500 eliminations and 3,500 transfers to strategic partners. Reuters described the programme as AI-driven, while BAT's own release emphasised digital capabilities, outsourcing and broader cost restructuring.

Reported scope: Unspecified 'number of talented people'

Amperity conducted a round of layoffs as part of a company-wide transformation to integrate more artificial intelligence into its operations.

Reported scope: nearly 15% of total workforce; no absolute count disclosed

BitGo announced on June 25, 2026 that it was reducing its workforce by nearly 15%. CEO Michael Belshe tied the move to focusing resources on security, trading, stablecoins, settlement and AI-powered infrastructure rather than claiming AI replaced the affected staff.

Reported scope: up to 100 roles

Worcestershire County Council plans to cut the equivalent of 100 roles by utilizing AI to automate process-driven tasks across various departments, aiming to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Reported scope: 10% of staff

Optimove is cutting 10% of its workforce as part of a restructuring effort to integrate AI into both its product suite and internal operations.

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

Pleo reportedly cut around 50 roles across product, technology, design and data teams shortly before announcing finance AI agents. The company says the layoffs and product launch were unrelated, while its spokesperson also cited the increasing role of new technologies in internal product and technology work; AI causality remains contested.

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: approximately 750 roles, about 15% of the global workforce

Rackspace Technology is reducing its global workforce by 750 positions, roughly 15% of its total employees, to reinvest in its enterprise AI infrastructure and consulting strategy.

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: At least 86 California jobs; additional reductions in Washington and outside the US were reported without a combined total

Salesforce reportedly eliminated at least 86 California jobs in June 2026, with additional cuts in Washington and abroad. Business Insider reported that some affected employees worked on Agentforce, MuleSoft and Marketing Cloud, but neither the report nor the company established AI as the cause; this is a separate round from its 2024 and 2025 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: Unconfirmed: Globes reported 2,700 to 3,000 dismissals (about 10%); Ctech reported 7% to 10% of roughly 29,000 staff

Amdocs began pre-layoff hearings in Israel in June 2026 under a reorganization led by new CEO Shimie Hortig that is expected to cut 7% to 10% of its roughly 29,000 staff. Amdocs describes an operating-model redesign without mentioning AI; Israeli business press ties the move to adapting to the AI era.

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 explicitly cited AI, data, automation and digital platforms as changing how work is done; later investigative reporting argued that offshoring was also a material driver, making the mechanism disputed.

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.

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: nearly 4,000 roles, about 5% of the workforce; not all attributable to AI

Cisco announced a restructuring expected to affect nearly 4,000 jobs. CEO Chuck Robbins said it would reallocate resources to silicon, optics, security and AI; the company did not claim that AI automation replaced all affected employees.

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: about 250 employees, over 21% of staff

DeepL announced a layoff of approximately 250 employees, or about 21% of its workforce, as part of a strategic shift to integrate AI more deeply into its organizational structure. CEO Jarek Kutylowski cited a 'massive structural shift' driven by AI as the catalyst for needing smaller, more agile teams.

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 a ~10% workforce reduction and scrapped 6,000 open positions to fund $125-145B in 2026 AI capex. CEO Mark Zuckerberg linked the cuts to smaller teams doing more, without stating that AI reduced these roles.

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: an undisclosed number of employees

Life360 announced an undisclosed workforce reduction while reorganising around an AI-native operating model. CEO Lauren Antonoff said pre-AI staffing roles and ratios no longer held as AI took on more work.

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 carried out major workforce reductions while expanding AI and data-center investment. TIME reported up to 30,000 workers affected in a concentrated 2026 round, while Oracle's later annual filing showed a 21,000 year-over-year net headcount decline and explicitly said AI adoption had resulted, and could continue to result, in workforce reductions; the differing scopes keep the event disputed.

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-led restructuring. CEO Zubin Appoo described a deliberate AI transformation and predicted a leaner organization, including changes to software development, but the 2,000 roles also span other teams and are not all verified as directly replaced by AI.

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: Projected 4,000–6,000 gross global roles by the end of FY2028; 4,000 is the reported lower bound, not completed losses or an AI-only count

HP announced a plan to reduce its global workforce by approximately 4,000–6,000 by fiscal 2028. The same first-party release ties the plan to AI adoption, productivity and roughly $1 billion in expected savings; it does not say every projected loss is an AI replacement.

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: ~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. SVP of people experience and technology Beth Galetti tied the reorganisation to AI in the announcement blog post.

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: About 5,000 fewer employees (45,100 at end-2023 versus roughly 40,000 in 2025); net decline over 18 months, not 5,000 verified layoffs or AI-replaced roles

McKinsey's reported headcount fell from 45,100 to roughly 40,000 over about 18 months. The firm attributes the decline to performance management rather than layoffs; in the same report, its spokesperson described AI-driven productivity, but no source establishes that AI caused these departures or identifies an AI-affected subset.

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: a few hundred HR positions replaced over an unspecified period; overall IBM headcount increased

IBM disclosed in May 2025 that AI agents had replaced a few hundred HR positions over an unspecified period. CEO Arvind Krishna said the automation enabled hiring in programming and sales and that the company's total employment had grown; this disclosure is distinct from later 2025 layoffs.

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 announced approximately 1,750 role eliminations in February 2025. CEO Carl Eschenbach identified AI and platform development among the investments prioritized during the restructuring, alongside process, role and location changes; the company did not say AI automation directly replaced those workers.

Reported scope: More than 1,000 roles reported in February 2025; affected divisions and any AI-attributable subset were not disclosed

Salesforce reportedly cut more than 1,000 roles in February 2025 while hiring salespeople for its Agentforce AI products. Fortune reported these changes together but did not establish that AI caused the cuts or identify the affected divisions; this is not the later AI-linked reduction in customer-service roles.

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

TikTok laid off fewer than 500 Malaysia-based content-moderation workers in October 2024. TechCrunch reported the cuts as the company leaned further into automated moderation, and TikTok said automation removed 80% of violating content; the statement did not say each affected role was directly replaced by AI.

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: approximately 1,800 (10% of workforce), including performance departures, role eliminations and site changes; not 1,800 AI replacements

Intuit announced approximately 1,800 departures in July 2024, alongside plans to hire a similar number of people. Its filing and CEO memo frame the reorganization as investment reallocation that includes AI and GenAI priorities; many departures were performance-related, and the company did not claim AI replaced all 1,800 roles.

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 more than 1,000 roles across hardware, ads, engineering and other teams in January 2024. CBS later connected Pichai's warning of further 2024 cuts to AI investment, but neither that reporting nor his January memo establishes that AI caused the earlier January 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).