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Monthly Job Cuts Report

atr AskTheRecruiter.com Weekly Pulse Job Cuts Report · Week of Jul 14, 2025 · 🌐 Worldwide Data as of Aug 1, 2026 · 1:02 PM EDT · AskTheRecruiter.com
17,557
Worldwide verified job cuts this week ▲ 96% vs week of Jul 7
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
100
🤖 blamed on AI by the employer 1% of the total
AI or automation named as a cause, in the company’s own words.

Every figure below is a live link: click any number, company or industry to open the exact rows and sources behind it, filtered to this period.

Across 75 separate verified layoff events in 8 countries · 250 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.

  • Amazon Web Services 100 jobs · 2025-07-18 · United States AI named as the cause
    “adoption of generative AI tools would trigger a workforce reduction”
    See the source →

Open every AI-attributed cut in the tracker, filtered →

Methodology: Verified cuts have a primary source behind each figure, an SEC filing, a state WARN notice, or a named news report with a quote. AI attribution requires the employer’s own words. Machine-extracted numbers are double-checked and every correction is disclosed openly.

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