102,222
Job cuts with exact counts (a floor)
43
Layoff announcements
52%
Of exact-count cuts attributed to AI by the company itself
12
Announcements reported as a percentage, range or undisclosed, not summed
How AI was linked to the cuts
- AI does the work: 21 of 43
- Cuts fund AI: 15 of 43
- AI cited only in general terms: 7 of 43
"AI does the work" means the source says AI or automation now does, or removes the need for, work the cut roles did. "Cuts fund AI" means the cuts free money or focus for AI. Definitions →
Every entry
| Date | Company | Affected | Country | What was said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HoneyBook | 14% | United States | Laid off about 14% of its ~255 staff (roughly 30-35 people, mostly in Israel); the company said it 'is undergoing a reorganization process aimed at aligning our structure and workflows with the AI era'.Attribution: explicit | Calcalist (CTech) | |
| HubSpot | 660 | United States | Cutting nearly 660 roles (~7%) while reorganizing product teams around customer outcomes to align with its AI strategy of 'delivering customer results with AI'; CEO Yamini Rangan explicitly said 'This is not driven by AI-related efficiencies'.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | Boston Globe (via Boston.com) | |
| F-Secure | 145 | Finland | Plans to cut up to 145 of 597 roles (~24%) in a move to 'AI-native ways of working'; CEO Timo Laaksonen said 'AI is changing the way we work and operate, as well as the threats we defend against'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | F-Secure stock exchange release (via Inderes) | |
| Oracle | Undisclosed | United States | Began another round of layoffs (size undisclosed) days after raising its FY2026 restructuring budget by $700m; reporting frames the cuts as funding Oracle's AI data-center buildout, following 21,000 AI-linked reductions over the prior year.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | The Register | |
| Booksy | 200 | United States | Cutting about 20% of staff (~200 roles) to focus on core markets, expand self-service tools and speed up AI adoption; CEO Stefan Batory said realising 'our vision of AI first' in the coming years 'means making difficult decisions now' (translated from Polish).Attribution: explicit · Cuts fund AI | Telepolis | |
| Patreon | 93 | United States | Cut 93 employees (20%); CEO Jack Conte wrote that the company is not cutting because 'AI replaces humans' but that AI 'has fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work' and that this 'does have an impact on how we operate and organize'.Attribution: strong | TechCrunch | |
| monday.com | 630 | Israel | Cut about 20% of staff in a restructuring to focus on its 'AI Work Platform'; the co-CEO memo said the prior organization 'is not the organization that is suitable for the new AI era', while the company denied the cuts were an AI-efficiency replacement of workers.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Uber | 10% of CS team | United States | Cut 10% of its Community Operations (customer service) team; a spokesperson said the move was 'to simplify operations, strengthen in-person collaboration and continue to embrace AI', and the VP's memo said the org needed restructuring to layer AI on.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Engadget | |
| Mews | 15% | Netherlands | Cut 15% of its ~1,350 staff; founder Richard Valtr said AI is 'fundamentally changing the economics of hospitality' and that Mews must itself become 'AI-native' to build the AI-native hospitality operating system.Attribution: explicit | Hotel Dive | |
| Microsoft | 4,800 | United States | Cut about 4,800 roles (2.1% of workforce, mostly Xbox and commercial sales); Chief People Officer Amy Coleman said the roles are not being replaced by AI but that 'AI is changing how work gets done' and some daily tasks can now be automated.Attribution: explicit | TechCrunch | |
| Elastic | 7% | United States | CEO Ash Kulkarni announced a ~7% workforce reduction, saying 'advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams' as engineering was consolidated and management layers flattened.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Elastic (CEO blog) | |
| Oracle | 21,000 | United States | Oracle's fiscal-2026 10-K disclosed headcount fell to ~141,000 from ~162,000 (about 21,000, 13%) and stated that 'the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | SEC filing (Oracle 10-K) | |
| Rackspace Technology | 750 | United States | Rackspace's SEC filing said the 15% cut de-emphasizes legacy public-cloud service delivery and redeploys resources toward its enterprise AI buildout.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | San Antonio Report | |
| GitLab | 350 | United States | GitLab cut ~14% of staff while exiting 22 countries and flattening management to fund infrastructure for AI/agentic workloads; CEO Bill Staples said agents 'work at machine scale' and the scale requirement 'didn't exist before'.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Wix | 1,000 | Israel | Wix is eliminating ~20% of its workforce (~1,000 roles); CEO Avishai Abrahami named AI as the structural driver, calling it a 'fundamental rewiring of how companies think, manage, and operate', alongside shekel currency pressure.Attribution: explicit | HRD Australia | |
| Intuit | 3,000 | United States | Intuit cut ~3,000 jobs (~17%) to simplify its structure and divert resources toward embedding AI in its products; CEO Sasan Goodarzi's memo tied the layoffs to helping the company 'focus on AI efforts'.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Cisco | 4,000 | United States | Cisco cut nearly 4,000 jobs (~5%) despite record revenue, saying the move shifts its cost structure to fund investment in AI and cybersecurity; CFO described realigning resources around silicon, optics, security and AI.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Cloudflare | 1,100 | United States | Cloudflare cut ~20% of staff alongside record revenue, with CEO Matthew Prince saying AI productivity gains (an internal 'tipping point' last November) made the roles obsolete and that it was 'not a cost-cutting exercise'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | TechCrunch | |
| DeepL | 250 | Germany | CEO Jarek Kutylowski said the ~25% cut restructures DeepL around AI at every level of its workflows, with AI taking over routine tasks so smaller teams can 'focus on what only humans can do'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | heise online | |
| Freshworks | 500 | United States | CEO Dennis Woodside told Reuters the 11% cut was driven partly by AI use in product and engineering ('Over half of our code is written by AI') and automation of routine work.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Reuters (via Yahoo Finance) | |
| Vertex | 170 | United States | Vertex's 8-K said its Value Creation Plan, cutting ~9% of staff, is 'intended to become a more AI-enabled company' and focus investment on growth opportunities.Attribution: explicit | SEC filing (Vertex 8-K) | |
| Meta | 8,000 | United States | Meta announced ~8,000 cuts (10%) effective May 20 to 'offset the other investments we're making' as it raised AI capex to up to $145B; Zuckerberg's May memo framed the cuts around winning the AI race.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Snap | 1,000 | United States | CEO Evan Spiegel's memo cutting ~16% of staff said rapid advancements in artificial intelligence let teams reduce repetitive work and let smaller squads drive progress with AI tools.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | TechCrunch | |
| Atlassian | 1,600 | Australia | Atlassian cut about 10% of staff (~1,600) 'to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales', with CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes saying AI changes 'the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas'.Attribution: explicit · Cuts fund AI | Atlassian CEO update (SEC 8-K Exhibit 99.1) | |
| WiseTech Global | 2,000 | Australia | WiseTech will cut about 2,000 roles (29% of staff) over 18 months in what CEO Zubin Appoo called a 'deliberate AI transformation journey', saying 'the era of manually writing code as a core act of engineering is over'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | ABC News (Australia) | |
| Salesforce | <1000 | United States | Salesforce cut fewer than 1,000 roles across marketing, product management, data analytics and the Agentforce unit amid its AI push, after Benioff said AI agents let it run support with fewer heads and the company said it no longer needs to backfill support engineer roles.Attribution: strong · AI does the work | Storyboard18 (reporting Business Insider) | |
| Amazon | 16,000 | United States | Amazon cut about 16,000 corporate roles citing fewer layers and less bureaucracy; the cuts follow CEO Andy Jassy's 2025 memo that generative AI would reduce the corporate workforce, and outlets framed the round as part of that AI-driven shrinkage.Attribution: strong · AI does the work | TechCrunch | |
| 15% | United States | Pinterest said in a regulatory filing it is cutting less than 15% of staff while 'reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and teams' and prioritizing AI-powered products.Attribution: explicit · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | ||
| Angi | 350 | United States | Angi announced a global reduction of about 350 employees, which it said was made 'in light of AI-driven efficiency improvements' to cut operating expenses.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Business Insider (via Yahoo Finance) | |
| HP | 4000-6000 | United States | Plans to cut about 4,000-6,000 jobs by the end of fiscal 2028; HP's 8-K ties the plan to driving customer satisfaction, product innovation and productivity 'through artificial intelligence adoption and enablement'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | HP 8-K exhibit (SEC) | |
| Deepwatch | 60-80 | United States | Laid off dozens of staff (60-80 per an employee; the company gave no number); CEO John DiLullo said the company is 'aligning our organization to accelerate our significant investments in AI and automation'.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Amazon | 14,000 | United States | Amazon cut ~14,000 corporate roles; SVP Beth Galetti's memo said 'this generation of AI is the most transformative technology we've seen since the Internet' and that the company must be organized more leanly with fewer layers.Attribution: explicit | TechCrunch | |
| Paycom | 500 | United States | Laid off about 500 employees; Paycom said the cuts affect only non-client-facing roles 'that have been automated'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | KGOU | |
| 100 | United States | Cut more than 100 design roles in its cloud unit; CNBC reports the layoffs come as Google accelerates cuts to focus spending on AI infrastructure. Google did not comment.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | CNBC | ||
| Just Eat Takeaway.com | 450 | United Kingdom | Laying off around 450 employees; the company said it is integrating automation and AI into its operations, including moving manual customer service tasks to automated systems.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Reuters (via TradingView) | |
| Fiverr | 30% | Israel | Cut about 30% of staff (about 250 people); CEO Micha Kaufman's memo says Fiverr will become 'an AI-first company that's leaner, faster' with 'a smaller team'.Attribution: strong · AI does the work | Globes | |
| Salesforce | 4,000 | United States | CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce cut customer-support headcount from about 9,000 to about 5,000 because AI agents (Agentforce) now handle roughly half of customer conversations.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Outlook Business | |
| TikTok | several hundred | Singapore | TikTok put several hundred UK trust-and-safety roles at risk as moderation shifts to AI, citing 'the benefit of technological advancements' and that over 85% of violating content is already removed by automation.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | New Straits Times (PA Media/dpa via Bernama) | |
| Microsoft | 9,000 | United States | Cutting about 9,000 jobs in a second major wave of layoffs as it seeks to control costs while ramping up AI spending, per Bloomberg; Microsoft itself cited removing management layers.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | Bloomberg (via Bloomberg Law) | |
| Immutable | 74 | Australia | Headcount fell from 224 in 2023 to around 150 over nine months; the company confirmed AI now supports roles in commercial, engineering, product and marketing teams, per Tech in Asia citing the AFR.Attribution: strong · AI does the work | Tech in Asia | |
| Microsoft | 6,000 | United States | Cut about 6,000 jobs (3%) to reduce management layers while under pressure to contain costs amid massive spending on AI data centers, per Bloomberg.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | Bloomberg (via Gulf News) | |
| CrowdStrike | 500 | United States | CrowdStrike cut about 500 roles (5%); CEO George Kurtz told staff 'AI flattens our hiring curve' and the 8-K said the cuts would 'evolve its operations to yield greater efficiencies'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | SiliconANGLE | |
| Duolingo | 10% | United States | Cut about 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023; Duolingo told Bloomberg that part of the reason it no longer needed as many people was AI.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | TechCrunch |
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