Sep 6, 2026

AI Layoff Tracker

September 5-6, 2026 · verified job cuts · counted by the date the cuts take effect · provisional

Over September 5-6, 2026, employers verified 1,444 US job cuts. Worldwide, verified job cuts totalled 1,444. No employer explicitly named AI as a reason.

Both figures are verified job cuts on September 5 and 6, 2026, counted where the jobs were and by the date the cuts take effect.

One entry dominated September 5-6, 2026: Jaguar Land Rover's 4,000 announced job cuts in United States were 73% of the 5,444 job cuts worldwide once announced estimates are included.

Over September 5-6, 2026, the worldwide total is one employer's story rather than a broad shift across many.

Filings and notices keep arriving, so this window is provisional: it usually rises, and a correction can lower it.

Every verified cut in this window carries a country, so the regions below sum to the worldwide figure.

AI-attributed cuts

0 today · 66,253 in 2026 so far

We reviewed 6 entries dated September 5-6, 2026, 1,444 verified job cuts between them. No employer explicitly named AI as a reason on any of them. Explicit attribution is rare and arrives in bursts: of the 32 complete weeks of 2026 measured to August 16, 16 recorded none. So far in 2026 employers have attributed 66,253 verified job cuts to AI, 11% of the year's total.

Why that matters: zero AI-attributed cuts does not mean AI played no role. It means no employer in these records explicitly cited AI as a reason. This tracker measures employer disclosure, not the effect of automation on employment.

Source quality

Where these came from, September 5-6, 2026, verified only: 1,444 from state WARN filings.

There are 6 entries on September 5 and 6, 2026, 5 of them verified. Including announced estimates, the same window holds 5,444 job cuts across 6 companies. Announced cuts are plans companies have stated that no filing or named report verifies yet.

Biggest cuts

September 5-6, 2026, ranked by job count. 1 of these 5 is an announcement, marked below, and sits outside the verified figure above.

Where the jobs were

September 5-6, 2026, verified job cuts, counted where the jobs were rather than where the employer is based: United States 1,444. Regions are our own grouping.

Which industries

September 5-6, 2026, verified job cuts, by the industry we classified the employer into: Healthcare & Pharma 1,272 · Consumer Goods 65 · Retail & E-commerce 55.

Technology is fourth, at 4%.

By US state

September 5-6, 2026, verified US job cuts, by the state where the notice was filed: Washington, D.C. 1,270 · North Carolina 65 · California 55 · Washington 52 · Virginia 2.

2026 YTD

607,014

verified job cuts

January 1 - September 6, 2026, worldwide, counted by the date the cuts take effect.

Of those, 66,253 were attributed to AI by the employer, January 1 - September 6, 2026, worldwide.

52,093 of the 607,014 verified job cuts sit on entries with no country recorded, January 1 - September 6, 2026.

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Data notes

1 of the 5 companies listed on September 5 and 6, 2026 links to an entry page naming the filing or report behind the row. The rest arrived through a bulk filing import, which builds no page, so they link to the tracker filtered to that company. Every row also carries a "Source" link to the filing or report it was drawn from.

These lines cover 1,392 of the 1,444 verified job cuts on September 5 and 6, 2026. 52 more sit below the lines shown.

About this snapshot

The database last changed September 6, 2026 at 12:11 UTC. This digest was composed September 6, 2026 at 13:17 UTC, and every figure in it is the snapshot taken then.

Cite this

AI Layoff Tracker, AskTheRecruiter.com. Figures for September 5-6, 2026, as of September 6, 2026 at 12:11 UTC, accessed September 6, 2026 at 13:17 UTC.

https://asktherecruiter.com/blog/ai-layoff-tracker/

Talent Intelligence Tracker

33

talent and employer-activity signals

September 5-6, 2026, worldwide, counted by the date the source published, or, for a job-board reading or a source that carries no date, the day we captured it.

A talent and employer-activity signal is one sourced employer update, not one job. Job counts below are the roles named in that update. Some signals are job-board scans, where a rise means the employer listed more active postings than our previous scan, not that it confirmed new openings.

From 33 companies, September 5-6, 2026. 0 of the 33 are verified against a primary document, which here means a filed one. The rest are of two kinds: news reports we have not independently confirmed, and readings of employers' own job boards. A board reading is first-party, but it is our measurement rather than a figure the employer filed.

Figures for this window are provisional: signals keep arriving for days after the date they carry, so the tracker will show more for the same dates later. A daily edition covers yesterday and today, so a signal dated yesterday was also in yesterday's edition.

7 of the 33 signals listed on September 5 and 6, 2026 state a direction of hiring. The rest are other employer activity in the same window: funding, leadership, pay and site news. That activity names no roles, and this tracker follows it because it tends to come before hiring.

Biggest signals and job-board increases

September 5-6, 2026, the signals naming the most jobs or postings first, then newest first. A news headline is quoted as its source published it, in that source's own language. A job-board line is our own description of what the employer's board listed on two dates, not a headline anyone published.

• CEO VinCons tiết lộ 100.000 công nhân tuyển mới từ vùng nông thôn, miền núi, không lấy của doanh nghiệp khác (cafef.vn) (100,000 jobs, Vietnam, CafeF, September 5, 2026)
• Curaleaf Holdings, Inc.'s job board listed 13 more active postings in United States than our previous scan (job board: 239 to 252) (job-boards.greenhouse.io) (13 more postings listed, United States, Greenhouse job board, board read September 5, 2026)
• OpenAI's job board listed 11 more active postings in Singapore than our previous scan (job board: 767 to 778) (jobs.ashbyhq.com) (11 more postings listed, Singapore, Ashby job board, board read September 5, 2026)
• Foundry Robotics's job board listed 5 more active postings in San Francisco than our previous scan (job board: 17 to 22) (jobs.ashbyhq.com) (5 more postings listed, California, United States, Ashby job board, board read September 5, 2026)
• Flatpay kører med overskud i Danmark – Finland også på vej (borsen.dk) (Denmark, Borsen, September 5, 2026)

Other talent activity

September 5-6, 2026, worldwide: Leadership moves 10 · Funding rounds 4 · Pay and benefits changes 2. These categories overlap with the hiring signals above and with each other, so they do not sum to the headline.

2026 YTD

25,274

talent and employer-activity signals

January 1 - September 6, 2026, worldwide, counted by the date the source published, or, for a job-board reading or a source that carries no date, the day we captured it.

Jobs in: US hiring demand

External context from Indeed Hiring Lab, not the tracker's own records. These figures describe the whole US labour market and are not counted in the totals above.

The Indeed US Job Postings Index (February 1, 2020 = 100, seasonally adjusted) stood at 101.91 as of August 21, 2026, 1.91 points above the baseline, unchanged from a month earlier.

AI-related terms appeared in 6.28% of US postings as of July 31, 2026, up 0.33 points from a month earlier.

Sources: Indeed Hiring Lab Job Postings Tracker for the index and Indeed Hiring Lab AI Tracker for the AI share, both published by Indeed Hiring Lab under CC BY 4.0. Index as of August 21, 2026. AI share as of July 31, 2026. The comparisons against the baseline and against a month earlier are our own arithmetic on the published series.

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Cite this

Talent Intelligence Tracker, AskTheRecruiter.com. Figures for September 5-6, 2026, accessed September 6, 2026 at 13:17 UTC.

https://asktherecruiter.com/blog/talent-intelligence-tracker/

From the blog

What we wrote around the numbers: analysis and explainers from the tracker team.

The 3 newest of 57 posts we published on September 5 and 6, 2026.