1,874,495
Worldwide verified job cuts ▲ 535% vs 2019
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
50
🤖 blamed on AI by the employer 0% of the total
AI or automation named as a cause, in the company’s own words.
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Across 12,250 separate verified layoff events in 41 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.
- Microsoft AI named as the cause
“Microsoft is laying off more than 50 journalists to replace them with AI for Microsoft News and MSN”
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Biggest employers cut (full year)
| American Airlines Group Inc. · 3 events | 81,500 |
| Lufthansa · 2 events | 50,000 |
| United Airlines Holdings, Inc. · 2 events | 49,000 |
| Cinemaworld | 45,000 |
| Continental · 5 events | 44,058 |
| HSBC · 3 events | 35,857 |
| Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. · 2 events | 30,000 |
| Airbus · 5 events | 26,175 |