14,174
Worldwide verified job cuts this week ▲ 158% vs week of Feb 16
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
4,000
🤖 blamed on AI by the employer 28% of the total
AI or automation named as a cause, in the company’s own words.
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Across 76 separate verified layoff events in 14 countries · 4,400 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.
- 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)”
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Biggest single cuts
| BASF | 4,800 |
| Block 🤖 | 4,000 |
| SEB | 2,100 |
| WiseTech Global · Australia | 2,000 |
| Tyson Foods, Inc (Amarillo B-Shift Operations) Updated · TX | 1,761 |