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Monthly Job Cuts Report

atr AskTheRecruiter.com Weekly Pulse Job Cuts Report · Week of Oct 27, 2025 · 🇺🇸 US only Data as of Aug 1, 2026 · 2:48 AM EDT · AskTheRecruiter.com
62,142
US verified job cuts this week ▲ 969% vs week of Oct 20
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
388
🤖 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 117 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.

  • Chegg 388 jobs · 2025-10-27 · United States AI named as the cause
    “the new realities of AI and its impact on traffic”
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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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