AI layoffs in 2026

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.