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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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24 AI attributions · 78,314 jobs · 2025 · each with the employer’s quote and its source.
- HP AI named among the causes
“There are many things that today we have to do using people that in the future AI will do better and will do faster”
- Microsoft AI named among the causes
“navigating a job search shaped by automation, AI tools, and broader industry belt-tightening”
- Chegg AI named as the cause
“the new realities of AI and its impact on traffic”
- Nestle AI named among the causes
“due partly to automation”
- TikTok AI named among the causes
“TikTok is looking to replace the moderators with artificial intelligence-driven systems”
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) AI named among the causes
“AI-driven shifts”
- Accenture AI named among the causes
“We are exiting on a compressed timeline people where reskilling, based on our experience, is not a viable path for the skills we need. Our overall workforce is positioned to grow in line with the future of digital and AI consulting”
- Fiverr AI named among the causes
“AI can automate and streamline processes, liberate humans from manual and tedious tasks”
- 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”
- Atlassian AI named as the cause
“replacing them with AI technology”
- Commonwealth Bank AI named as the cause
“describing its decision to axe 45 roles due to artificial intelligence”
- TikTok AI named as the cause
“replace them with artificial intelligence”
- Amazon Web Services AI named as the cause
“adoption of generative AI tools would trigger a workforce reduction”
- Indeed AI named among the causes
“AI is changing the world, and we must adapt by ensuring our product delivers truly great experiences for job seekers and employers”
- Tata Consultancy Services AI named among the causes
“The rise of AI and automation has accelerated this shift”
- Business Insider AI named among the causes
“there's a huge opportunity for companies who harness AI first”
- 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”
- CrowdStrike AI named among the causes
“AI has always been foundational to how we operate. AI flattens our hiring curve, and helps us innovate from idea to product faster”
- ESW AI named among the causes
“partly driven by AI efficiencies”
- Zomato AI named among the causes
“The company also leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to automate its artificial intelligence (AI) for customer support functions in order to reduce costs for the company”
- Autodesk AI named among the causes
“Our investments in cloud, platform, and AI are ahead of our peers and enable Autodesk to provide more valuable and connected solutions”
- 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”
- Workday AI named among the causes
“Companies everywhere are reimagining how work gets done, and the increasing demand for AI has the potential to drive a new era of growth for Workday”
- Commonwealth Bank AI named as the cause
“it won’t hire more people unless the job cannot be done by artificial intelligence”
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 →