[
  {
    "company": "Meta",
    "jobs": 8000,
    "date": "2026-05-20",
    "description": "Cut 10% of its 80,000 workforce. Zuckerberg's memo: 'success isn't a given' in the AI era. 7,000 more employees reassigned to AI-focused teams. 6,000 open roles scrapped. Nearly 1,400 cut in Seattle alone, 20% of its local workforce. His $300M superyacht docked in Seattle the same day.",
    "roles": "Sales, marketing, product, middle management (India, Seattle, Bay Area hardest hit). AI teams protected.",
    "source": "https://fortune.com/2026/05/21/meta-10-percent-workforce-layoffs-ai-tech-success-is-not-a-given-8-thousand-employees-mark-zuckerberg/",
    "roleTags": [
      "sales",
      "marketing",
      "product",
      "middle-management"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Oracle",
    "jobs": 21000,
    "date": "2026-06-22",
    "description": "Oracle's FY2026 10-K reports about 141,000 full-time employees at May 31, 2026, down from about 162,000 a year earlier, a net drop of about 21,000 (13%), after a restructuring plan of up to $2.1B meant to improve efficiency 'including through the adoption and integration of AI technologies across certain functions.' The filing says 'the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce.' Oracle disclosed no gross layoff count.",
    "roles": "Research and development, sales and marketing, services and support (largest net headcount declines)",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000119312526277521/orcl-20260531.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "engineering",
      "sales",
      "customer-support"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Block (Square)",
    "jobs": 4000,
    "date": "2026-02-26",
    "description": "Jack Dorsey cut Block 'by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000.' His shareholder letter: 'Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company... A significantly smaller team, using the tools we're building, can do more and do it better.' The 8-K puts restructuring charges at $450-500M.",
    "roles": "Engineering, operations, support",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/000119312526076557/d108590dex991.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "engineering",
      "operations",
      "customer-support"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Atlassian",
    "jobs": 1600,
    "date": "2026-03-11",
    "description": "Cut about 10% of staff, roughly 1,600 employees, 'to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales.' The company said its approach is not 'AI replaces people', 'but it would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn't change the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas.'",
    "roles": "Various",
    "source": "https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-team-update-march-2026",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Cloudflare",
    "jobs": 1100,
    "date": "2026-05-08",
    "description": "First mass layoff in 16-year history, cutting 20% of staff while posting record $639.8M revenue. CEO said AI made 'measurers' (middle management, finance, legal, auditing) obsolete. Internal AI usage surged 600% in 3 months.",
    "roles": "Middle management, finance, legal, auditing",
    "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/cloudflare-says-ai-made-1100-jobs-obsolete-even-as-revenue-hit-a-record-high/",
    "roleTags": [
      "middle-management",
      "finance",
      "legal"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Coinbase",
    "jobs": 700,
    "date": "2026-05-05",
    "description": "Cut approximately 700 employees, about 14% of its workforce, in an SEC-filed restructuring plan to manage operating expenses and 'optimize the Company's operations for the AI era.' The plan carries $50-60M in restructuring costs.",
    "roles": "Various",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978826000049/coin-20260505.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Salesforce",
    "jobs": 4000,
    "date": "2025-09-01",
    "description": "Cut customer support roles. CEO Marc Benioff said bluntly: 'I need less heads.' Replaced them with Agentforce, Salesforce's AI agent platform.",
    "roles": "Customer support, success managers",
    "source": "https://tech.co/news/companies-replace-workers-with-ai",
    "roleTags": [
      "customer-support"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Chegg",
    "jobs": 388,
    "date": "2025-10-27",
    "description": "Cut 388 roles, about 45% of its workforce, and brought back Dan Rosensweig as CEO. Chegg's release: 'The new realities of AI and reduced traffic from Google to content publishers have led to a significant decline in Chegg's traffic and revenue.'",
    "roles": "Company-wide (about 45% of workforce)",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364954/000136495425000112/a9901-pressreleasecheggtor.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Snap",
    "jobs": 1000,
    "date": "2026-04-15",
    "description": "Cut approximately 1,000 people, 16% of full-time staff, and closed more than 300 open roles. Evan Spiegel's memo, filed with the SEC: 'we believe that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence enable our teams to reduce repetitive work, increase velocity, and better support our community, partners, and advertisers.'",
    "roles": "Company-wide (16% of full-time staff; no function breakdown disclosed)",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312526155861/d36756dex991.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "HP",
    "jobs": 5000,
    "date": "2025-11-01",
    "description": "Cut 4,000-6,000 employees as part of an AI productivity initiative across global operations.",
    "roles": "Operations, support, admin",
    "source": "https://intellizence.com/insights/layoff-downsizing/major-companies-that-announced-mass-layoffs/",
    "roleTags": [
      "operations",
      "customer-support",
      "admin"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Paycom",
    "jobs": 500,
    "date": "2025-10-01",
    "description": "Cut staff after automating payroll and back-office functions with AI. One of the clearest cases of AI directly replacing human jobs.",
    "roles": "Payroll processing, back-office",
    "source": "https://programs.com/resources/ai-layoffs/",
    "roleTags": [
      "finance",
      "admin"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "CrowdStrike",
    "jobs": 500,
    "date": "2025-05-06",
    "description": "Cut approximately 500 positions, about 5% of the workforce. CEO George Kurtz's memo, filed with the SEC: 'AI flattens our hiring curve, and helps us innovate from idea to product faster.' CrowdStrike said it would keep hiring in customer-facing and product engineering roles.",
    "roles": "Various",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000110465925045244/tm2514190d1_ex99-1.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Duolingo",
    "jobs": 100,
    "date": "2024-01-08",
    "description": "Offboarded 10% of contractors as the company declared itself 'AI-first.' Content translation work moved to AI models. One of the first major 'replaced by AI' stories.",
    "roles": "Contract translators, content creators",
    "source": "https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-duolingo-replaces-contractors-ai/",
    "roleTags": [
      "translation",
      "content"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Dell",
    "jobs": 12500,
    "date": "2024-08-01",
    "description": "Cut 10% of workforce as it reorganized around demand for AI servers and infrastructure. Traditional PC and services roles eliminated.",
    "roles": "Sales, support, traditional infrastructure",
    "source": "https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/",
    "roleTags": [
      "sales",
      "customer-support",
      "it"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Dropbox",
    "jobs": 528,
    "date": "2024-10-01",
    "description": "Cut staff as it refocused the entire business around AI search and document intelligence.",
    "roles": "Engineering, product, various",
    "source": "https://programs.com/resources/ai-layoffs/",
    "roleTags": [
      "engineering",
      "product"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "PayPal",
    "jobs": 2500,
    "date": "2024-01-30",
    "description": "Reduced 9% of staff as automation expanded across fraud detection, risk management, and customer support pipelines.",
    "roles": "Fraud analysts, risk management, support",
    "source": "https://programs.com/resources/ai-layoffs/",
    "roleTags": [
      "risk-fraud",
      "customer-support"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Klarna",
    "jobs": 700,
    "date": "2024-06-01",
    "description": "Replaced 700 customer service agents with an AI chatbot. Then reversed course by 2026 as customer satisfaction tanked on complex issues. Now uses a hybrid model.",
    "roles": "Customer service agents",
    "source": "https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/klarna-reverses-ai-layoffs-replacing-700-workers-backfired",
    "roleTags": [
      "customer-support"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Upwork",
    "jobs": 145,
    "date": "2026-05-07",
    "description": "Cut 24% of its 600-person workforce. CEO said AI is making teams smaller: 'Two pizza teams are dead.' Stock plunged 19%. Law firms launched securities investigations.",
    "roles": "Various across the company",
    "source": "https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/upwork-layoffs-2026",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "BILL Holdings",
    "jobs": 709,
    "date": "2026-05-07",
    "description": "Cut 30% of staff the same day it authorized a $1B stock buyback. CEO said 'AI presents an extraordinary opportunity' while eliminating the humans. Announced on the same day as Upwork's cuts.",
    "roles": "Engineering, operations, support",
    "source": "https://layoffhedge.com/company/bill-holdings",
    "roleTags": [
      "engineering",
      "operations",
      "customer-support"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "PayPal (2026)",
    "jobs": 4760,
    "date": "2026-05-05",
    "description": "Bloomberg reported that PayPal plans to cut about 20% of staff over two to three years, roughly 4,760 of the 23,800 employees it had at the end of 2025; PayPal has not confirmed a headcount. Its 10-Q says the restructuring program 'will focus on realigning our operating structure and accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence and automation across the company' and should deliver at least $1.5B in annual savings. This is its second round of cuts, after 2,500 in Jan 2024.",
    "roles": "Company-wide (no function breakdown disclosed)",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633917/000163391726000082/pypl-20260630.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Ticketmaster",
    "jobs": 350,
    "date": "2026-05-15",
    "description": "Cut 8% of global workforce across 25 countries as AI handles more customer service and event operations.",
    "roles": "Customer service, operations across 25 countries",
    "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/layoffs-accelerate-may-2026-firms-040430218.html",
    "roleTags": [
      "customer-support",
      "operations"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Intuit",
    "jobs": 3000,
    "date": "2026-05-20",
    "description": "The TurboTax and QuickBooks maker cut 17% of its workforce to 'reduce complexity' and divert resources toward baking AI into its products. Announced the same day as Meta's 8,000 cuts. Signed multi-year deals with Anthropic and OpenAI while showing 3,000 humans the door.",
    "roles": "Corporate structure, product, various (US workers stay until July 31)",
    "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/intuit-to-lay-off-over-3000-employees-to-refocus-on-ai/",
    "roleTags": [
      "product",
      "middle-management"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Cisco",
    "jobs": 4000,
    "date": "2026-05-14",
    "description": "Cut nearly 4,000 jobs one day after reporting record $15.8B quarterly revenue and $5.3B in AI infrastructure orders. CFO said the restructuring realigns resources around silicon, optics, security, and AI. Up to $1B in charges to pay people to leave.",
    "roles": "Various (restructuring toward AI infrastructure)",
    "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/cisco-cuts-nearly-4000-jobs-to-spend-more-on-ai-reports-record-quarterly-revenue/",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Workday",
    "jobs": 1750,
    "date": "2025-02-05",
    "description": "Cut approximately 1,750 positions, 8.5% of its workforce. In a memo filed with the SEC, CEO Carl Eschenbach said 'the increasing demand for AI has the potential to drive a new era of growth for Workday' and that the company was 'prioritizing innovation investments like AI and platform development.'",
    "roles": "Company-wide (no function breakdown disclosed)",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327811/000132781125000030/wday-020525x991.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Uber",
    "jobs": 41,
    "date": "2026-07-22",
    "description": "Cut roughly 10% of Community Operations (the support arm covering riders, drivers and delivery partners) in the first headcount reduction Uber has ever attributed directly to AI. Bloomberg's headline: 'Uber Cuts 10% of Customer Service Jobs, Citing Embrace of AI.' Remaining remote staff in the division were also ordered to relocate to hub offices. Only the 41-person California WARN filing is public; the global total is undisclosed and larger.",
    "roles": "Customer support / Community Operations; remaining remote roles forced back to hub offices",
    "source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-layoffs-ai-prompts-cuts-to-customer-service-jobs-2026-7",
    "roleTags": [
      "customer-support"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Monday.com",
    "jobs": 600,
    "date": "2026-07-22",
    "description": "Cut 20% of its workforce, just over 600 people, in an SEC-filed restructuring tied to its 'AI-driven growth strategy,' at a cost of $45-55M in charges while still guiding to 19-20% revenue growth. Co-founder Eran Zinman told staff the move 'was not made to reduce costs or replace people with AI,' which is a difficult sentence to place next to the filing.",
    "roles": "Product, marketing, go-to-market",
    "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/monday-com-lays-off-hundreds-to-focuses-on-ai/",
    "roleTags": [
      "product",
      "marketing",
      "sales"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Angi",
    "jobs": 350,
    "date": "2026-01-01",
    "description": "The home-services marketplace formerly known as Angie's List cut 350 jobs (12.5% of its 2,800 staff) explicitly 'in light of AI-driven efficiency improvements,' with AI taking over customer matching and contractor vetting. Expected to save $70-80M a year, at a one-time restructuring cost of about $30M.",
    "roles": "Customer matching, service provider vetting, operations",
    "source": "https://www.ibj.com/articles/angi-to-eliminate-350-jobs",
    "roleTags": [
      "customer-support",
      "operations"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Rapid7",
    "jobs": 314,
    "date": "2026-08-07",
    "roles": "Cross-company restructuring around the Command Platform (detection & response, exposure management)",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001560327/000156032726000043/rp-20260807.htm",
    "description": "Cut about 12% of its 2,613 staff under a board-approved \"2026 Restructuring Plan\" with $10-11M in charges, mostly severance. New CEO Wael Mohamed called it \"a strategic shift in business operations to drive efficiency and focus\"; the 8-K frames the cuts as freeing capacity to increase investment in AI-driven security products.",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "ServiceNow",
    "jobs": 1000,
    "date": "2026-07-30",
    "roles": "Overlapping roles from the Armis, Veza and Moveworks acquisitions, rolled out over several months",
    "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/exclusive-servicenow-cut-1k-jobs-183242920.html",
    "description": "Up to 1,000 jobs (~3%) cut as \"planned rightsizing\" so that, despite three acquisitions, ServiceNow ends 2026 at the ~29,000 headcount it started with, on CEO Bill McDermott's logic that AI productivity means the company \"does not need to grow staff.\" Spokesperson: \"We are driving efficiencies across the business, actively investing in and hiring for AI-focused skills, and managing headcount with discipline to end 2026 where we started.\" Shares rose 9%.",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Apple",
    "jobs": 200,
    "date": "2026-08-21",
    "roleTags": [
      "engineering",
      "product"
    ],
    "roles": "Vision Pro gaming and immersive video (~100); Siri and Intelligent Systems Experience software (~100)",
    "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/apple-is-reportedly-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-from-siri-vision-pro-teams/",
    "description": "Rare mass layoffs at Apple: roughly 100 roles cut from Vision Pro (largely closing the gaming team and shrinking immersive video) and about 100 from Siri and related software, as the company moves money toward AI and new hardware. The Siri cuts follow the decision to rebuild the assistant on a new AI architecture that needs different expertise than the team it replaced. Apple said it is realigning teams \"to evolve our business.\""
  },
  {
    "company": "Pinterest",
    "jobs": 700,
    "date": "2026-01-27",
    "roleTags": [
      "sales",
      "various"
    ],
    "roles": "Company-wide, with sales and go-to-market restructured; headcount reallocated to AI-focused roles",
    "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-to-lay-off-15-of-staff-to-redirect-resources-to-ai/",
    "description": "Cut about 15% of its ~4,700 staff to \"double down on an AI-forward approach,\" in CEO Bill Ready's words, reallocating money to AI-focused teams and AI products at a cost of $35-45M in charges. The stock fell on the news. A week later Pinterest fired two engineers who had built an internal tool to track which colleagues had been laid off."
  },
  {
    "company": "Visa",
    "jobs": 2600,
    "date": "2026-07-28",
    "description": "Cut about 2,600 jobs, roughly 7% of its workforce and mostly in product and technology teams, and booked $563M in severance. CEO Ryan McInerney: 'AI is also helping to accelerate this evolution and shape the way work gets done at Visa.' Visa named efficiency as the main goal and AI as a key but not the only factor; the savings go to stablecoin and commercial payments.",
    "roles": "Mostly product and technology/development teams",
    "source": "https://www.americanbanker.com/payments/news/visa-layoffs-will-cut-7-of-its-workforce",
    "roleTags": [
      "product",
      "engineering"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "FICO",
    "jobs": 570,
    "date": "2026-10-06",
    "description": "Committed to eliminating 'approximately 15% of positions across the Company', roughly 570 jobs by Reuters' estimate from the 3,811 staff FICO reported in September 2025 (FICO gave no headcount). Its 8-K says the plan works by 'reducing the number of layers in the organization, simplifying the operating structure, optimizing processes and tools, and integrating AI-driven product development.' Pre-tax charges are about $27M.",
    "roles": "Company-wide; fewer management layers, with product development reorganized around AI",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814547/000119312526415732/d127042d8k.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "middle-management",
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "DNB",
    "jobs": 400,
    "date": "2026-10-06",
    "description": "Norway's largest bank is cutting about 400 full-time equivalents in its Technology & Services unit because agentic AI now does work that was previously done by hand, including customer-data control, KYC checks, technology development and coding. CEO Kjerstin Braathen: 'AI is changing the way we work and how we deliver services to our customers. We are already seeing considerable gains, and are therefore adapting our organisation to a new reality.' The downsizing is due to finish in Q4 2026.",
    "roles": "Technology & Services unit: technology development and coding, customer-data control, KYC work",
    "source": "https://www.ir.dnb.no/press-and-reports/press-releases/dnb-making-organisational-changes-technology-services-2485833",
    "roleTags": [
      "engineering",
      "operations",
      "compliance"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "HubSpot",
    "jobs": 660,
    "date": "2026-10-06",
    "description": "Cut about 7% of staff, 'nearly 660 HubSpotters', in a reorganization CEO Yamini Rangan tied to its AI strategy: 'we have shifted our strategy from building software that helps customers grow to delivering outcomes for them with AI... But we also need to fundamentally change the way we are organized.' In the same memo, filed with the SEC, she wrote: 'This is not driven by AI-related efficiencies.'",
    "roles": "Management layers and the product organization (teams regrouped around customer outcomes)",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404655/000119312526414965/d183135dex991.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "middle-management",
      "product"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Zscaler",
    "jobs": 261,
    "date": "2026-09-03",
    "description": "Cut about 3% of its 8,700+ staff, roughly 261 people by BankInfoSecurity's estimate (Zscaler gave only the percentage), with $30-33M in charges. The 8-K says the cut means 'strategically reallocating resources to provide additional capacity to support our AI and growth initiatives.' The savings go to specialist sales teams.",
    "roles": "Company-wide 3% cut; savings redirected to specialist account executives and sales teams",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713683/000171368326000156/zs-20260901.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Booksy",
    "jobs": 200,
    "date": "2026-09-10",
    "description": "The Polish beauty and wellness booking platform cut about 20% of staff, roughly 200 positions across all departments and markets. In a LinkedIn post, co-founder and CEO Stefan Batory wrote: 'Możliwość pracy nad naszą wizją AI-first przez kolejne lata oznacza konieczność podjęcia trudnych decyzji już teraz' ('Being able to work on our AI-first vision for years to come means making difficult decisions now').",
    "roles": "All departments and markets (about 20% of staff)",
    "source": "https://www.money.pl/praca/polska-firma-podbila-swiat-teraz-tnie-zatrudnienie-o-200-osob-7327959978436768a.html",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Mews",
    "jobs": 200,
    "date": "2026-07-07",
    "description": "The $2.5B hotel-software company cut about 15% of its roughly 1,350 staff, about 200 people (the ANP wire says about 170), to become 'AI-native'. Founder Richard Valtr told Skift the cut 'does impact a number of different roles built for an era that is ceasing to exist, because of the fact that a singular employee can do so, so much more with AI.' Customer-facing roles were largely spared.",
    "roles": "Roles across teams and countries, especially hand-off roles between functional teams; customer-facing roles largely spared",
    "source": "https://skift.com/2026/07/07/mews-layoffs-restructuring-ai/",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "VideoAmp",
    "jobs": 50,
    "date": "2026-08-07",
    "description": "The ad-measurement company cut about 20% of staff, between 50 and 60 people by the company's count, mostly in product development and technology. The cuts included the CTO role, which will not be refilled. CEO Tony Fagan: 'These were difficult decisions, but they reflect our long-standing approach of adapting early... We believe AI is a major platform shift... For VideoAmp, that means continuing to invest in agentic software development.'",
    "roles": "Product development and technology, including the CTO role (eliminated, not refilled)",
    "source": "https://sea.peoplemattersglobal.com/news/workforce-planning/videoamp-cuts-20percent-of-workforce-as-ai-agents-reshape-its-operating-model-51339",
    "roleTags": [
      "engineering",
      "product"
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "Chegg (May 2025)",
    "jobs": 248,
    "date": "2025-05-12",
    "description": "Cut about 22% of staff, 248 people, mostly in Chegg Study and corporate services. The SEC-filed shareholder letter blamed Google's 'expansion of AI Overviews' and free student access to ChatGPT Plus and Anthropic's education offering, then said: 'As a result, we are once again taking proactive measures to align costs with our business outlook.'",
    "roles": "Chegg Study and corporate services",
    "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364954/000136495425000049/a9901-financialresultsq120.htm",
    "roleTags": [
      "various"
    ]
  }
]