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AI layoffs, in their own words

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AI layoffs, in the employer’s own words

Every layoff we attribute to AI carries the company’s own statement, quoted verbatim, with a link to where they said it. This is the receipt behind the AI number: not inference, not press framing, the employer’s words. Filter it, quote it, check it.

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29 AI attributions · 51,370 jobs · all-time · each with the employer’s quote and its source.
  • Monday.com AI named as the cause
    “AI-First Strategy Pivot”
    620 jobs 2026-07-23 Technology News See the source →
  • Nine AI named as the cause
    “”
    30 jobs 2026-07-22 Media & Entertainment News See the source →
  • Elastic AI named as the cause
    “advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams”
    7 jobs 2026-06-25 Technology News See the source →
  • Standard Chartered AI named as the cause
    “Discussing how automation was likely to lead to thousands of job cuts at the bank”
    7,800 jobs 2026-05-22 United Kingdom Finance & Insurance News See the source →
  • Oracle AI named as the cause
    “AI models for generating computer code have become so efficient that we have been restructuring our product development teams into smaller, more agile and productive groups”
    21,000 jobs 2026-04-06 Multiple countries Technology News See the source →
  • Meta AI named as the cause
    “amid AI-led restructuring”
    700 jobs 2026-03-25 United States Technology News See the source →
  • Atlassian AI named as the cause
    “attributing them to AI”
    1,600 jobs 2026-03-12 Australia Technology News See the source →
  • Livspace AI named as the cause
    “the workforce reduction was part of a measured, phased transition as the company integrates AI agents and automation across core functions, including sales, design, operations and marketing”
    1,000 jobs 2026-02-20 India Retail & E-commerce News See the source →
  • Salesforce AI named as the cause
    “workforce reductions linked to the growing use of artificial intelligence”
    1,000 jobs 2026-02-10 Multiple countries Technology News See the source →
  • Commonwealth Bank AI named as the cause
    “it won’t hire more people unless the job cannot be done by artificial intelligence”
    300 jobs 2026-01-01 Australia Finance & Insurance News See the source →
  • Chegg AI named as the cause
    “the new realities of AI and its impact on traffic”
    388 jobs 2025-10-27 United States Education News See the source →
  • Salesforce AI named as the cause
    “I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000 because I need less heads. So we have now done about a million-and-a-half conversations with customers, and at the same time, that's the agentic layer speaking to the customers”
    4,000 jobs 2025-09-02 United States Technology News See the source →
  • Atlassian AI named as the cause
    “replacing them with AI technology”
    150 jobs 2025-08-02 Australia Technology News See the source →
  • Commonwealth Bank AI named as the cause
    “describing its decision to axe 45 roles due to artificial intelligence”
    45 jobs 2025-07-21 Australia Finance & Insurance News See the source →
  • TikTok AI named as the cause
    “replace them with artificial intelligence”
    150 jobs 2025-07-18 Germany Media & Entertainment News See the source →
  • Amazon Web Services AI named as the cause
    “adoption of generative AI tools would trigger a workforce reduction”
    100 jobs 2025-07-18 United States Technology News See the source →
  • Chegg AI named as the cause
    “Google and their expansion of AI Overviews continues to keep web traffic captive in the Google search experience and migrate search to Gemini”
    248 jobs 2025-05-13 United States Education News See the source →
  • DBS Group AI named as the cause
    “DBS Group plans to reduce its workforce by 10% over the next three years due to increased AI adoption”
    4,000 jobs 2025-02-24 Singapore Finance & Insurance News See the source →
  • Commonwealth Bank AI named as the cause
    “it won’t hire more people unless the job cannot be done by artificial intelligence”
    45 jobs 2025-01-01 Australia Finance & Insurance News See the source →
  • UPS AI named as the cause
    “UPS plans to lay off 404 workers at its Commerce City facility in January as it adds more automated processing equipment”
    404 jobs 2024-11-18 CO · United States Logistics & Transport News See the source →
  • 1% Club AI named as the cause
    “streamline expenses through artificial intelligence-driven efficiencies”
    40 jobs 2024-11-07 India Professional Services News See the source →
  • Dukaan AI named as the cause
    “We had to layoff 90% of our support team because of this AI chatbot”
    23 jobs 2023-07-10 India Retail & E-commerce News See the source →
  • Microsoft AI named as the cause
    “Microsoft is laying off more than 50 journalists to replace them with AI for Microsoft News and MSN”
    50 jobs 2020-05-30 Multiple countries Technology News See the source →
  • Department of Home Affairs AI named as the cause
    “Plans to automate simple visa applications threaten Tasmanian jobs”
    100 jobs 2018-04-05 Australia Government & Nonprofit News See the source →
  • Suncor Energy AI named as the cause
    “Union outcry as automation eats up 400 oilsands jobs”
    400 jobs 2018-02-01 Canada Energy News See the source →
  • Nordea AI named as the cause
    “robots to take over”
    6,000 jobs 2017-10-27 Multiple countries Finance & Insurance News See the source →
  • Allstate AI named as the cause
    “Automation is hitting office jobs in Chicago”
    500 jobs 2017-09-07 IL · United States Finance & Insurance News See the source →
  • BlackRock AI named as the cause
    “BlackRock is cutting jobs and replacing them with artificial intelligence that can pick stocks”
    40 jobs 2017-03-30 United States Finance & Insurance News See the source →
  • Monday.com AI named as the cause
    “restructures around an AI Work Platform”
    630 jobs Multiple countries Technology News See the source →

How these are chosen: a cut appears here only when the employer named AI or automation as a cause in words we can quote, confirmed by two independent passes, with the source on file. Investment in AI, a future projection, or AI used to pick who goes does not qualify. This is the strict, quotable standard; the tracker also has a broader AI-linked measure, labelled separately. Full methodology →