30,801
US verified job cuts ▼ 26% vs August 2025
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
4,000
🤖 blamed on AI by the employer 13% of the total
AI or automation named as a cause, in the company’s own words.
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Across 325 separate verified layoff events.
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.
- Salesforce AI named as the cause
“I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000 because I need less heads. So we have now done about a million-and-a-half conversations with customers, and at the same time, that's the agentic layer speaking to the customers”
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Biggest single cuts
| Salesforce 🤖 | 4,000 |
| Republic National · CA | 1,756 |
| Kohl's · OH | 768 |
| Blue Diamond Growers · CA | 632 |
| Chevron Corporation (HESS Corporation) · TX | 575 |