16,165
Worldwide verified job cuts ▼ 33% vs August 2017
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
500
🤖 blamed on AI by the employer 3% of the total
AI or automation named as a cause, in the company’s own words.
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Across 104 separate verified layoff events in 15 countries.
AI, in the employer’s own words 1 attribution this period, each with its source
This is the receipt behind the number above. Every cut we count as AI carries the company’s own statement, quoted verbatim, and a link to where they said it. Nothing here is inferred.
- Allstate AI named as the cause
“Automation is hitting office jobs in Chicago”
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Biggest single cuts
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise · CA | 5,000 |
| Lego | 1,400 |
| Kone Corporation | 1,000 |
| Angus Council · United Kingdom | 800 |
| Harman | 650 |