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Monthly Job Cuts Report

atr AskTheRecruiter.com Weekly Pulse Job Cuts Report · Week of Sep 1, 2025 · 🇺🇸 US only Data as of Aug 1, 2026 · 10:39 AM EDT · AskTheRecruiter.com
11,525
US verified job cuts this week ▲ 47% vs week of Aug 25
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
4,000
🤖 blamed on AI by the employer 35% of the total
AI or automation named as a cause, in the company’s own words.

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Across 79 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 4,000 jobs · 2025-09-02 · United States 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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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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