Total Jobs Lost
179.1K
People affected by AI-related layoffs
Companies
103
Companies with AI-related layoffs
Most Affected City
Seattle
City with most people affected
Average Layoff Size
1.6K
People affected per layoff event
Where Layoffs Are Happening
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Layoffs per Month
109
Layoffs
179,052
Jobs Lost
Causes
Why people are getting laid off due to AI
Top Causes
Strategic reorganization / AI-driven transformation
31,749(18%)
AI data center expansion/AI infrastructure restructuring
30,000(17%)
AI-driven reallocation
28,470(16%)
Layoff Tracker
See data on all AI-related layoffs below.
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| Company | Date | Jobs Lost | Cities | Roles | Cause | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Salesforce | Sep 2, 2025 | 4,000 | San Francisco Seattle Bellevue | Support | Direct replacement (AI agents) | Los Angeles Times |
WiseTech Global | Jul 23, 2025 | Unknown | Sydney | Unknown | AI-driven efficiency push | Reuters |
Fortune Magazine | Jul 21, 2025 | 30 | New York City | Editorial Video Production IT Operations & Infrastructure Sales Business Operations | Demand loss to AI | The Wrap / Editor & Publisher |
Recruit Holdings (Indeed & Glassdoor) | Jul 10, 2025 | 1,300 | Austin San Francisco | Research and Development Growth People & Sustainability | AI-driven reallocation | Reuters / HR Dive / Fortune |
Microsoft | Jul 2, 2025 | 9,000 | Unknown | Sales Management Product Management Operations and Gaming Division | AI-spend rebalancing | Reuters / AP / The Times (UK) |
Business Insider | May 29, 2025 | 621 | New York City | Editorial Marketing Product Development Engineering/Tech Sales Operations and People & Culture | AI-driven reallocation & traffic impact | Nieman Lab |
Chegg | May 12, 2025 | 248 | Santa Clara San Jose Bullitt County | Unknown | Demand loss to AI | Reuters |
IBM (HR roles replaced) | May 6, 2025 | 200 | New York City Austin Research Triangle San Francisco Bay Area Toronto | HR | Direct replacement (AI agents) | WSJ (interview) / PYMNTS |
Google Cloud (Alphabet) | Feb 26, 2025 | 100 | Sunnyvale Seattle New York City Austin Chicago | Sales | AI-driven reallocation | Channel Futures / Bloomberg / Reuters |
Workday | Feb 5, 2025 | 1,750 | Unknown | Unknown | AI-driven reallocation | AP News / Washington Post |
SAP | Jan 23, 2024 | 10,000 | Palo Alto Walldorf Bengaluru | Engineering Sales and Marketing Human Resources Finance Legal Research and Development Contractor Roles Operational Support Roles | AI-focused transformation (headcount roughly flat) | SAP newsroom / Reuters |
Stack Overflow (Stack Exchange) | Oct 16, 2023 | 140 | New York City | Sales | Demand loss to AI (traffic declines) | The Verge / VentureBeat |
G/O Media (Gizmodo en Español) | Sep 1, 2023 | 4 | Remote | Spanish-language editors/journalists | Direct replacement (AI translations) | The Verge |
Axel Springer (Bild) | Jun 20, 2023 | 200 | Düsseldorf Köln Leipzig Dresden Chemnitz Hamburg | Editorial Staff | Directly linked to AI in memo | The Guardian |
Chegg | Jun 12, 2023 | 80 | Santa Clara | Unknown | Demand loss to AI | Bloomberg |
NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association) – hotline | May 26, 2023 | 4 | National | Helpline workers / Human operators | Direct replacement (chatbot) | Business Insider / CBS / WIRED |
BT Group | May 18, 2023 | 2,000 | Belfast Derry Martlesham (Adastral Park) Enniskillen Portadown | Engineering Call Handling Network Diagnostics Contractor Roles and Operational Support Roles | Announced future AI-driven cuts | The Guardian |
IBM (hiring pause/attrition plan) | May 1, 2023 | 7,800 | Unknown | Human Resources Back-Office Functions Non-Customer-Facing Roles | Attrition plan tied to AI | Reuters / Washington Post / SHRM |
Dropbox | Apr 27, 2023 | 500 | Unknown | Core Product Document Workflows Business Operations and Administrative Roles | AI-driven reallocation | Dropbox CEO memo |
Handshake | Oct 14, 2025 | 100 | San Francisco | Recruiting Business Vertical Core Product Business Operations and Administrative Role | AI-focused restructuring | Forbes Newsletter By Alex Konrad |
Fiverr | Sep 15, 2025 | 250 | Tel Aviv | Multiple departments (exact job titles not detailed) | AI-driven reallocation | WSJ |
Atlassian | Sep 10, 2025 | 200 | Amsterdam Paris | Customer service / support roles | AI-driven restructuring | Ziptone |
Accenture | Sep 25, 2025 | 11,000 | Unknown | Unknown | AI restructuring | Financial Times |
Paycom | Oct 1, 2025 | 500 | Oklahoma City | Back Office | Direct replacement (AI agents) | oklahoman |
ZipRecruiter | Sep 16, 2025 | 80 | Tel Aviv | Software development data and artificial intelligence research | AI-driven reallocation & traffic impact | CTECH |
xAI | Sep 13, 2025 | 500 | San Francisco | Generalist data annotators | AI-driven reallocation | Business Insider |
Scope3 | Sep 5, 2025 | Unknown | Unknown | Commercial team — sales partnerships with brands agencies and ad-tech providers. | Direct replacement (AI agents) | Adweek |
Oracle | Oct 13, 2025 | 289 | Redwood City Pleasanton Santa Clara Seattle | Software developers engineers managers and employees in cloud infrastructure and media services | AI-driven reallocation & traffic impact | Kron4 |
GupShup | Aug 1, 2025 | 100 | Unknown | Junior developers and other unspecified roles | AI-driven reallocation | Inc42 |
Ludeo | Oct 20, 2025 | 25 | Los Angeles Tel Aviv | Not specified — general company-wide reduction | AI-driven reallocation | CTECH |
Meta | Oct 22, 2025 | 600 | SF Bay Area | AI product teams AI infrastructure teams | AI driven reallocation | CNBC |
Klaviyo | Aug 25, 2025 | 100 | Boston | R&D organisation: engineering product teams | AI driven reallocation | The Information |
TikTok | Aug 22, 2028 | 300 | London | Content moderators Trust & Safety and Quality Assurance staff | AI-driven replacement/reallocation | WSJ |
BenchSci | Aug 23, 2028 | 83 | Toronto | Mixed roles including engineering staff (20% of engineering team) | AI-driven replacement/reallocation | The Globe and Mail |
King.com | Jul 16, 2025 | 200 | Stockholm Barcelona Berlin London | Level designers UX/narrative writers user research middle management Quality Assurance analysts | AI-driven replacement/reallocation | mobilegmaer.biz |
Scale AI | Jul 16, 2025 | 200 | SF Bay Area | Primarily roles in the data-labeling business | AI-driven reallocation | Bloomberg |
Indeed + Glassdoor | Jul 10, 2025 | 1,300 | Austin Texas | Research & development growth people & sustainability teams various functions across countries | AI-driven reallocation | TechCrunch |
Klue | Jun 25, 2025 | 85 | Vancouver British Columbia | Across teams and locations (product engineering operations) — specific roles not all detailed | AI-driven replacement/reallocation | BetaKit |
OpenText | May 16, 2025 | 1,600 | Waterloo | Broad workforce across unspecified departments; roles identified via “deep analysis” which could be done with AI | AI driven replacement/ reallocation | BetaKit |
Canva | Apr 2, 2025 | 10 | Sydney | Technical writing team (documentation guides/manuals for internal/external use) | AI driven replacement/reallocation | Australian Financial Review |
Tome | Oct 2, 2024 | 12 | SF Bay Area | Product developers and consumer go to market team members | AI driven reallocation | The Information |
Bytedance | Oct 11, 2024 | 500 | Kuala Lumpur Malaysia | Content moderators / Trust & Safety workforce in Malaysia / regionally | AI driven replacement/reallocation | Reuters |
Character.ai | Aug 29, 2024 | 6 | SF Bay Area | marketing and recruiting roles | AI driven reallocation | The Information |
Turnitin | Mar 7, 2024 | 15 | SF Bay Area | engineering sales & marketing | AI driven replacement/reallocation | TechCrunch |
MessageBird | Mar 5, 2024 | 90 | Amsterdam | General workforce (not broken down by specific job function) — CEO explained fewer people will do more via automation and AI. | AI driven replacement/reallocation | AmsterdamAI |
Motional | Feb 28, 2024 | 70 | Boston | non technical / administrative roles | AI driven reallocation | TechCrunch |
Gro Intelligence | Feb 16, 2024 | 20 | New York City | Primarily engineering roles | AI driven reallocation | AgFunderNews |
Paytm | Dec 25, 2023 | 1,000 | Noida | payments lending operations and sales | AI driven replacement/reallocation | The Times of India |
Dataminr | Nov 8, 2023 | 150 | New York City | Various roles including “subject experts” engineering and operations tied to the data/insights business. | AI driven reallocation | TechCrunch |
Olive | Oct 31, 2023 | 450 | Columbus | Broad workforce across multiple divisions; roles tied to business units being sold/closed. | AI driven reallocation / business shutdown | Axios |