AI Layoffs Tracker

In its annual 10-K filed June 22, 2026, Oracle disclosed that headcount fell by 21,000 in fiscal 2026 and became one of the first Big Tech companies to cite AI in a federal filing as a cause of job cuts, stating "The adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce." Severance and related restructuring costs hit $1.84 billion, nearly five times the prior year, while capital spending jumped 162% to $55.7 billion on its AI cloud and data-center buildout. The filing warned reductions may continue as internal AI deployment grows.

Roles: About 13% of the global workforce cut over fiscal 2026 (162,000 down to 141,000), with the deepest cuts at Oracle Health (Cerner) and more than 12,000 roles in India

On May 13-14, 2026, Cisco announced it would cut nearly 4,000 jobs, under 5% of its workforce, as it realigns resources around silicon, optics, security and AI, despite reporting record Q3 revenue of $15.8 billion (up 12%) and $1.9 billion in AI orders for the quarter. The company said restructuring charges could reach $1 billion, and the cuts were framed as freeing up investment for AI and other high-growth areas. It was Cisco's second major round in just over a year after ~6,000 cuts in early 2025.

Roles: Just under 5% of the global workforce, announced alongside record quarterly revenue

On May 7, 2026, Cloudflare co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn announced the company's first major layoff, cutting more than 1,100 employees (about 20%) even as Q1 revenue hit a record $640 million, up 25% year over year. The company said its internal AI use had grown over 600% in three months under an "agentic AI-first operating model" that made an entire category of middle-management and back-office "measurer" roles obsolete, while "builders" (engineers) and "sellers" were retained.

Roles: About 20% of global workforce — middle management, finance, legal, internal audit, compliance and revenue-recognition roles CEO Matthew Prince called "measurers"

On May 5, 2026, CEO Brian Armstrong told employees Coinbase would cut about 700 jobs, roughly 14% of its workforce, blaming a "volatile" crypto market alongside AI rapidly changing how the company operates. Armstrong said "AI is bringing a profound shift in how companies operate, and we're reshaping Coinbase to lead in this new era," replacing pure managers with "player-coaches" and creating AI-native pods where small teams direct AI agents. An SEC filing put restructuring costs at $50-60 million.

Roles: About 14% of staff, including "pure managers" as the org was flattened to five layers below the CEO and rebuilt around AI-native pods

On PayPal's May 5, 2026 Q1 earnings call, new CEO Enrique Lores announced roughly 4,760 job cuts, about 20% of the workforce, phased over two to three years as part of a turnaround targeting at least $1.5 billion in annualized savings. Lores said PayPal is "becoming a technology company again" and is "aggressively adopting AI in our development processes," with executives saying further efficiencies would come from extending AI into customer service, support operations and risk management. It was the largest workforce reduction in PayPal's history.

Roles: About 20% of the ~23,800-person workforce phased over 2-3 years, spanning development, customer service, support operations and risk management

On April 15, 2026, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told staff in a memo that the company was cutting roughly 1,000 full-time jobs, about 16% of its workforce. The memo said "rapid advancements in artificial intelligence enable our teams to reduce repetitive work, increase velocity, and better support our community, partners, and advertisers," crediting small squads leveraging AI tools. Snap said the cuts and related efficiency moves would reduce annual costs by $500 million by the second half of 2026.

Roles: About 16% of full-time employees company-wide, plus 300+ open roles pulled from recruitment

On January 28, 2026, Amazon announced roughly 16,000 additional corporate job cuts, moving toward a stated goal of about 30,000 corporate reductions, framed by CEO Andy Jassy as an anti-bureaucracy drive to flatten hierarchy and speed decision-making. Jassy has repeatedly said AI efficiency gains mean "We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today," while stressing the cuts were about efficiency and culture rather than cost. Media coverage tied the round to Amazon's intensifying AI buildout.

Roles: Corporate/office roles across multiple units; combined with October 2025 round, about 9% of Amazon's office workforce

On October 28, 2025, Amazon announced about 14,000 corporate layoffs — the largest corporate cuts in its history — in a memo from HR chief Beth Galetti that called AI "the most transformative technology since the Internet" and said Amazon must operate more leanly with fewer layers. CEO Andy Jassy had said in June 2025 that AI efficiency gains would shrink the corporate workforce, but after the cuts he insisted they were "not even really AI-driven — not right now, at least... Really, it's culture," leaving the AI attribution disputed by the company itself.

Roles: Corporate roles across cloud, devices, ads, grocery, video games, HR, sustainability and communications

On October 27, 2025, Chegg said it would lay off 388 employees, about 45% of its workforce, explicitly blaming the "new realities" of AI and diminished traffic as students shift to tools like ChatGPT and Google's AI search summaries. The company had sued Google in February 2025 over AI Overviews hurting its traffic, and announced Dan Rosensweig would return as CEO. Chegg said the restructuring would cut 2026 expenses by $100-110 million.

Roles: 45% of remaining workforce across the edtech company, its second round of 2025 after a 22% cut in May

On October 16, 2025, new Nestlé CEO Philipp Navratil announced 16,000 job cuts over two years as part of a plan to lift savings to about $3.7 billion by end-2027. The company said some white-collar roles would be automated, including through greater use of AI, as it targets "operational efficiency." Navratil said "The world is changing, and Nestlé needs to change faster."

Roles: 12,000 white-collar/office roles plus 4,000 manufacturing and supply chain positions worldwide over two years (~6% of workforce)

On its September 25, 2025 earnings call, Accenture disclosed it had reduced headcount by more than 11,000 over three months under an $865 million "business optimization" program. CEO Julie Sweet said the firm was "exiting on a compressed timeline people where reskilling, based on our experience, is not a viable path for the skills we need," while noting 550,000 employees had been reskilled on generative AI fundamentals. The cuts combined broader restructuring with the AI-reskilling rationale.

Roles: Consulting and delivery staff globally whose skills could not be reskilled for AI work

At an investor day in Munich on September 29, 2025, Lufthansa Group announced it would cut about 4,000 administrative jobs by 2030. The company said "the profound changes brought about by digitalization and the increased use of artificial intelligence will lead to greater efficiency in many areas and processes," with cuts also attributed to duplicated work across the group. Lufthansa expects a 300 million euro earnings boost against roughly 400 million euros in restructuring costs.

Roles: Administrative roles, mostly in Germany, to be eliminated by 2030; pilots, cabin crew and operations staff excluded

In an interview published in early September 2025, CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce had cut its customer support organization from about 9,000 to 5,000 people "because I need less heads" now that Agentforce AI agents handle roughly half of customer interactions. The company said support cases declined thanks to Agentforce and it no longer needed to backfill support engineer roles, later characterizing the change as a "rebalance" with hundreds of workers redeployed into sales and professional services.

Roles: Customer support staff (from ~9,000 down to ~5,000)

On July 10-11, 2025, Recruit Holdings announced roughly 1,300 layoffs across Indeed and Glassdoor and said Glassdoor's operations would be folded into Indeed. CEO Hisayuki "Deko" Idekoba told employees "AI is changing the world" and that the company must adapt as it doubles down on AI-powered hiring tools. Glassdoor CEO Christian Sutherland-Wong also announced his departure effective October 1, 2025.

Roles: R&D, tech, HR and sustainability teams across Indeed and Glassdoor, mostly in the US (~6% of HR tech segment)

On May 29, 2025, CEO Barbara Peng told staff Business Insider would lay off about 21% of its employees, the company's third round of cuts in three years. Her memo cited 'extreme traffic drops outside of our control' as AI-enabled search eroded referral traffic, said the company would reduce reliance on traffic-sensitive revenue (about 70% of its business) and scrap most of its commerce operation, and declared Business Insider was 'going all-in on AI' while launching a live-events business. The Insider Union criticized pairing the AI strategy with the layoff announcement.

Roles: About 21% of staff across every department, including most of the commerce/e-commerce team; no official headcount was disclosed

On May 7, 2025, CrowdStrike said in an SEC filing and CEO memo that it would cut about 500 jobs, 5% of its workforce. CEO George Kurtz said AI 'reshapes every industry' and directly cited AI-driven efficiency, writing that 'AI flattens our hiring curve, and helps us innovate from idea to product faster' and drives 'efficiencies across both the front and back office.' The company estimated $36-53 million in charges and reaffirmed its fiscal-year forecast, while some analysts questioned whether AI was a convenient justification.

Roles: About 500 roles, 5% of the cybersecurity firm's workforce, across front- and back-office functions; hiring continued in 'key strategic areas'

In a Wall Street Journal interview published in early May 2025, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company had used AI to replace the work of 'a couple hundred' HR employees, with its AskHR agent automating about 94% of routine HR tasks such as vacation requests and pay statements. Krishna said IBM's total employment actually rose because the savings were reinvested into hiring more programmers, salespeople, and marketers, saying AI 'gives you more investment to put into other areas.'

Roles: A 'couple hundred' back-office human resources roles automated by IBM's AskHR AI agent

On May 14, 2025, CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told CNBC that AI had helped Klarna shrink its workforce by about 40% — from roughly 5,000 to 3,000 people — through a hiring freeze and natural attrition, with its AI assistant doing the work of about 700 customer service agents. In December 2024 he had said Klarna 'stopped hiring' about a year earlier because AI could already do the jobs, with headcount falling from 4,500 to 3,500. In May 2025 he also acknowledged the company was again hiring some human customer-service staff after AI-driven service produced 'lower quality.'

Roles: Customer service and back-office roles absorbed by Klarna's OpenAI-powered assistant; reduction came via an AI-justified hiring freeze and attrition rather than layoffs

On May 13, 2025, Microsoft began laying off about 6,000 employees, roughly 3% of its workforce and its largest round since 2023, saying the cuts were organizational changes to reduce management layers — the company did not attribute them to AI. Media and analysts tied the cuts to Microsoft's AI pivot, noting software engineers bore the brunt as CEO Satya Nadella said AI writes up to 30% of the company's code and Microsoft directed about $80 billion into AI infrastructure spending; additional smaller cuts followed in June 2025.

Roles: About 6,000 roles (~3%) globally, hitting software engineers hardest — over 40% of the ~2,000 Washington-state cuts — plus product managers and middle management

On April 28, 2025, CEO Luis von Ahn told employees in an all-hands email (later posted publicly) that Duolingo would become 'AI-first' and would 'gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle,' adding that AI use would factor into hiring and performance reviews and that new headcount would only be granted when teams could not automate further. After intense public backlash, von Ahn said in August 2025 the memo 'did not give enough context,' insisting no full-time employees were laid off and that contractor numbers fluctuate with the company's needs.

Roles: Contract translators and content creators doing work AI can handle; full-time employees were not laid off, per the company

On February 27, 2025, Autodesk announced it would cut about 1,350 jobs, roughly 9% of its workforce, despite reporting 12% quarterly revenue growth. CEO Andrew Anagnost's letter to employees said the company was restructuring its go-to-market organization and reallocating resources to accelerate investments in cloud and AI and strengthen business resilience. Autodesk expected $135-150 million in pre-tax restructuring charges.

Roles: About 1,350 roles (~9% of staff), concentrated in sales and go-to-market as the company reshaped its sales model

In the first week of February 2025, Bloomberg and other outlets reported Salesforce was cutting more than 1,000 jobs while simultaneously hiring salespeople to sell its Agentforce AI products, after CEO Marc Benioff said in December the company would add about 2,000 AI sales roles. Salesforce did not publicly attribute the cuts to AI or detail which divisions were affected, and media framed the move as a reallocation of headcount toward AI priorities.

Roles: More than 1,000 roles across divisions; displaced workers could apply internally while the company hired ~2,000 salespeople for its AI products

On February 5, 2025, Workday announced it would lay off about 1,750 employees, roughly 8.5% of its workforce. In a memo published in a securities filing, CEO Carl Eschenbach said 'the increasing demand for AI has the potential to drive a new era of growth for Workday' and cited redirecting investment toward AI development alongside streamlining processes and changing the company's geographic footprint. Workday estimated $230-270 million in restructuring charges, mostly severance.

Roles: 1,750 roles, about 8.5% of the HR-software maker's global workforce; company said it would keep hiring in strategic areas including AI

On November 12, 2024, Chegg said in an SEC filing it would lay off 319 employees, about 21% of its workforce, its second round of cuts that year. CEO Nathan Schultz cited 'recent technology shifts and generative AI' creating significant headwinds, with students turning to generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's AI-enabled search reducing traffic and subscriptions. The company estimated $22-26 million in restructuring costs after reporting a $212 million third-quarter loss.

Roles: 319 employees, about 21% of the edtech company's workforce, on top of 441 roles cut in June 2024

On August 14, 2024, Cisco announced its second round of 2024 layoffs, cutting 7% of its global workforce as it shifted investment into faster-growing areas including AI and cybersecurity; a September filing put the reduction at about 5,600 jobs, following roughly 4,000 cut in February. Executives described the move as reallocating resources rather than cost-cutting, pivoting spending into AI, cloud, and security after committing $1 billion to AI startups and partnering with Nvidia on AI infrastructure.

Roles: About 7% of the global workforce across networking business units, with resources redirected to AI, cloud, and cybersecurity products

On July 10, 2024, CEO Sasan Goodarzi announced in a company-wide email that Intuit would lay off about 1,800 employees (roughly 10%) while hiring approximately the same number in AI-focused engineering, product, and customer-facing roles. The memo explicitly framed the restructuring around accelerating investments in AI and its GenAI assistant strategy, stating 'We do not do layoffs to cut costs, and that remains true in this case.' About 1,050 of those cut were labeled as not meeting performance expectations and 300 roles were eliminated to streamline work.

Roles: About 10% of staff across functions, including 1,050 employees designated as underperformers and 300 streamlined roles; Edmonton and Boise sites closed

On June 17, 2024, Chegg announced a restructuring plan cutting 441 employees, about 23% of its global workforce, and closing two offices outside the US, targeting $40-50 million in annual savings. CEO Nathan Schultz framed the plan as refocusing on students and Chegg's own AI-powered learning assistant, as the company kept losing subscribers to free generative AI tools — an AI impact Chegg had publicly acknowledged since May 2023. It was the company's second AI-era workforce reduction after the June 2023 cuts.

Roles: Global corporate workforce (about 35% US, 20% Israel, remainder India), plus two international office closures

On February 27, 2024, Klarna announced that its OpenAI-powered customer service assistant had handled 2.3 million conversations in its first month — two-thirds of all customer service chats — and was 'doing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents,' with an estimated $40 million profit improvement for 2024. No layoffs accompanied the announcement: Klarna had frozen hiring in late 2023 and said the affected work sat mostly with outsourced agents, letting attrition shrink headcount. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski explicitly promoted the AI assistant as replacing human agent workloads.

Roles: Customer service agents, largely at outsourced support providers

In early January 2024, Duolingo confirmed it had offboarded about 10% of its contractors at the end of 2023 — primarily translators and content writers — as it shifted to generating and translating lesson content with GPT-4. A spokesperson said the company no longer needed as many people for that work and attributed part of the reduction to AI, with human experts now validating AI output against CEFR standards. No exact headcount was disclosed and no full-time employees were affected.

Roles: Contract translators and content writers

On January 16, 2024, Google announced it was eliminating several hundred roles in its advertising sales organization, concentrated in the Large Customer Sales unit, as it restructured around increasingly automated, AI-driven ad products; it never disclosed an exact number. Reports tied the reorganization to tools like Performance Max reducing the need for dedicated large-account sellers. On Alphabet's January 30 earnings call, chief business officer Philipp Schindler pushed back, saying 'we're not restructuring because AI is taking away roles.'

Roles: Ad-sales staff, mainly the Large Customer Sales unit

On January 23, 2024, SAP announced a 2 billion euro restructuring program affecting about 8,000 positions, saying it would 'further increase its focus on key strategic growth areas, in particular Business AI' and capture 'AI-driven efficiencies.' The company said the majority of affected roles would be covered by voluntary leave programs and internal reskilling rather than forced layoffs. SAP expected to exit 2024 at a headcount similar to the start of the year, and its shares rose on the announcement.

Roles: About 8,000 positions restructured via voluntary buyouts and internal reskilling toward Business AI focus areas

On January 30, 2024, UPS said it would cut 12,000 of its roughly 85,000 management jobs to save about $1 billion, after CEO Carol Tomé called 2023 a 'difficult and disappointing year' of falling volume and revenue. Tomé acknowledged that new technologies including AI and machine learning played a part — for example, machine learning lets salespeople produce pricing proposals without dedicated pricing experts — while soft demand and cost cutting were the primary stated drivers. Executives said the jobs would not come back even when volume recovers, calling it 'a change in the way we work.'

Roles: Management and contractor positions (union driver and sorter roles excluded)

On October 16, 2023, Stack Overflow announced it was cutting about 28% of its staff — roughly 150 people out of 500-plus, mostly in go-to-market and support — its second round of cuts that year. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar cited macroeconomic pressures and a push toward profitability, not AI. Media and analysts tied the downsizing to steep traffic declines as developers turned to ChatGPT and other AI coding assistants instead of the Q&A site, even as the company pushed its own OverflowAI product.

Roles: Go-to-market, sales and community support teams

On September 5, 2023, media-intelligence group Onclusive told staff it would eliminate 217 of 383 positions at its French entity and replace much of the media-monitoring work with an AI tool, formally opening a PSE layoff plan on September 12. It was widely described in France as the first mass layoff explicitly justified by AI. After scrutiny from the labor ministry and union backlash, Onclusive withdrew the initial plan on October 19, 2023, saying it would relaunch a more complete restructuring project.

Roles: Media-monitoring, press-review compilation and analysis staff in France

On June 12, 2023, edtech company Chegg announced it would cut about 80 employees, roughly 4% of its workforce, saying the move would 'better position the company to execute against its AI strategy.' The cuts came weeks after CEO Dan Rosensweig told investors in May 2023 that student uptake of ChatGPT was hurting Chegg's new-customer growth, a disclosure that roughly halved the stock in a day. Chegg estimated $5-6 million in severance-related charges.

Roles: Corporate and support staff across the online homework-help business

On May 18, 2023, BT Group announced it would cut 40,000-55,000 jobs by 2030, shrinking its workforce from about 130,000 to 75,000-90,000 as it completes its fibre rollout and shuts down 3G. CEO Philip Jansen said around 10,000 of those roles would be eliminated because AI and automation take over work such as customer service and network management. The cuts were framed as a multi-year program driven by digitization and cost reduction, with AI one component.

Roles: Fibre-build, network engineering and customer service roles; ~10,000 cuts specifically AI-linked

In a Bloomberg interview published May 1, 2023, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said IBM would pause or slow hiring for back-office roles that AI could perform. He said about 26,000 employees work in non-customer-facing roles and he could 'easily see' 30% of them — roughly 7,800 jobs — replaced by AI and automation over five years, partly through attrition. No layoffs were announced; this was a hiring pause with no numeric cut.

Roles: Back-office, non-customer-facing roles such as human resources

On April 27, 2023, Dropbox announced it would lay off about 500 employees, 16% of its workforce. CEO Drew Houston's memo cited slowing growth and 'the era of AI,' saying the company needed people with different skill sets to build AI-powered products. Dropbox estimated $37-42 million in severance and related charges.

Roles: Company-wide staff; hiring redirected toward AI product roles