153,104
Worldwide verified job cuts ▼ 18% vs Q4 2025
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
9,050
🤖 blamed on AI by the employer 6% of the total
AI or automation named as a cause, in the company’s own words.
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Across 910 separate verified layoff events in 33 countries · 31,300 AI-attributed including announced plans.
AI, in the employer’s own words 8 attributions 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.
- Block AI named among the causes
“CFO Amrita Ahuja: cuts position the company to "move faster with smaller, highly talented teams using AI to automate more work." Jack Dorsey (X post, per Fortune): "We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working." (TechCrunch)”
See the source → - Atlassian AI named as the cause
“attributing them to AI”
See the source → - Livspace AI named as the cause
“the workforce reduction was part of a measured, phased transition as the company integrates AI agents and automation across core functions, including sales, design, operations and marketing”
See the source → - Salesforce AI named as the cause
“workforce reductions linked to the growing use of artificial intelligence”
See the source → - Meta AI named as the cause
“amid AI-led restructuring”
See the source → - Angi Inc. AI named among the causes
“leans on artificial intelligence to improve efficiency”
See the source → - Commonwealth Bank AI named as the cause
“it won’t hire more people unless the job cannot be done by artificial intelligence”
See the source → - Amazon AI named among the causes
“tying them to efficiency gains from artificial intelligence”
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Biggest single cuts
| Volkswagen Group | 50,000 |
| Internal Revenue Service | 31,000 |
| UPS | 30,000 |
| Bosch · Germany | 20,000 |
| HSBC Holdings Plc · United Kingdom 🤖 | 20,000 |