196,577
Worldwide verified job cuts ▲ 83% vs Q4 2023
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
700
🤖 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 920 separate verified layoff events in 32 countries · 8,700 AI-attributed including announced plans.
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.
- Klarna AI named among the causes
“It is doing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents." (Klarna, on its OpenAI-powered AI assistant)”
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Biggest single cuts
| Bosch | 25,000 |
| Citigroup | 20,000 |
| UPS | 12,000 |
| John Lewis · United Kingdom | 11,000 |
| Milee · France | 10,199 |