Sep 8, 2026

AI Layoff Tracker

September 7-8, 2026 · verified job cuts · counted by the date the cuts take effect · provisional

Over September 7-8, 2026, employers verified 627 US job cuts. Worldwide, verified job cuts totalled 669. No employer explicitly named AI as a reason.

Both figures are verified job cuts on September 7 and 8, 2026, counted where the jobs were and by the date the cuts take effect.

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 · 66,553 in 2026 so far

We reviewed 8 entries dated September 7-8, 2026, 669 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 66,553 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 7-8, 2026, verified only: 669 from state WARN filings.

All 8 entries on September 7 and 8, 2026 are verified, across 8 companies. The window holds no announced estimates. Announced cuts are plans companies have stated that no filing or named report verifies yet.

Biggest cuts

September 7-8, 2026, verified only, ranked by job count.

Where the jobs were

September 7-8, 2026, verified job cuts, counted where the jobs were rather than where the employer is based: United States 627 · Canada 42. Regions are our own grouping.

Which industries

September 7-8, 2026, verified job cuts, by the industry we classified the employer into: Technology 212 · Logistics & Transport 169 · Healthcare & Pharma 121.

By US state

September 7-8, 2026, verified US job cuts, by the state where the notice was filed: California 421 · Missouri 107 · Kentucky 73 · Colorado 26.

2026 YTD

608,876

verified job cuts

January 1 - September 8, 2026, worldwide, counted by the date the cuts take effect.

Of those, 66,553 were attributed to AI by the employer, January 1 - September 8, 2026, worldwide.

52,093 of the 608,876 verified job cuts sit on entries with no country recorded, January 1 - September 8, 2026.

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Data notes

Every row also carries a "Source" link to the filing or report it was drawn from.

These lines cover 502 of the 669 verified job cuts on September 7 and 8, 2026. 125 more sit below the lines shown. 42 are on entries with no industry recorded.

About this snapshot

The database last changed September 8, 2026 at 20:04 UTC. This digest was composed September 8, 2026 at 20:04 UTC, and every figure in it is the snapshot taken then.

Cite this

AI Layoff Tracker, AskTheRecruiter.com. Figures for September 7-8, 2026, as of September 8, 2026 at 20:04 UTC, accessed September 8, 2026 at 20:04 UTC.

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

Talent Intelligence Tracker

10

talent and employer-activity signals

September 7-8, 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 10 companies, September 7-8, 2026. 7 of the 10 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.

5 of the 10 signals listed on September 7 and 8, 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 hiring signals

September 7-8, 2026, the signals naming the most jobs first, then newest first. Each headline is quoted as its source published it, in that source's own language.

• Khaitan (India) Ltd: Resignation of Company Secretary and Compliance Officer w.e.f 6th September 2026 (bseindia.com) (India, BSE India (SEBI Regulation 30 filing), September 7, 2026)
• PVP Ventures Ltd: Appointment of Mr. Vinay Paruchuru as the Company Secretary and Compliance Officer with effect from 14th September, 2026 (bseindia.com) (India, BSE India (SEBI Regulation 30 filing), September 7, 2026)
• Unimech Aerospace and Manufacturing Ltd: Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI Listing Regulations, we hereby inform you that certain Senior Management Personnel ('SMP') have ceased to hold their respective positions, and a member .... (bseindia.com) (India, BSE India (SEBI Regulation 30 filing), September 7, 2026)
• Bombay Potteries & Tiles Ltd: Resignation of Mr. Rakesh Shivkumar Wadhera as Independent Director from the Board of Bombay Potteries & Tiles Limited. (bseindia.com) (India, BSE India (SEBI Regulation 30 filing), September 7, 2026)
• Carborundum Universal Ltd: Enclosed intimation pertaining to appointment of CFO & KMP. (bseindia.com) (India, BSE India (SEBI Regulation 30 filing), September 7, 2026)

Other talent activity

September 7-8, 2026, worldwide: Leadership moves 7 · Funding rounds 0 · Pay and benefits changes 0. These categories overlap with the hiring signals above and with each other, so they do not sum to the headline.

2026 YTD

25,804

talent and employer-activity signals

January 1 - September 8, 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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Talent Intelligence Tracker, AskTheRecruiter.com. Figures for September 7-8, 2026, accessed September 8, 2026 at 20:04 UTC.

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