Category: Layoffs and Closures

The number ticked past 113,000 sometime around the last week of May 2026. That is how many technology workers in the United States have been laid off since January 1, according to the company-by-company database maintained by Layoffs.fyi, the independent tracker whose data is regularly cited by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,…

When outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas released its May 2025 jobs report, one number jumped off the page: 21,490. That was the count of positions U.S. employers said they eliminated because of artificial intelligence in April alone, the highest single-month AI-linked total since the firm began tracking the category. It also marked the third…

In April 2026, American employers told 21,490 workers that artificial intelligence was the reason their jobs no longer existed. That single-month figure, compiled by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas from publicly announced layoffs, pushed AI past traditional cost-cutting as the most-cited cause of job loss for the first time in the firm’s 30-plus years…

Somewhere in the stack of 132,000 severance notices that technology companies have issued so far in 2026, there is a recruiting coordinator, a program manager, and a QA engineer who all got the same calendar invite on the same Monday morning. Their roles were “eliminated as part of an organizational realignment.” Down the hall, or…

In April 2026, more American workers lost their jobs because of artificial intelligence than for any other reason employers gave, and it was not close. Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas counted 21,490 positions eliminated with AI cited as the employer-stated primary cause, a sharp jump from approximately 13,000 in February and 12,000 in March….

Somewhere in Meta’s first-quarter 2026 earnings exhibit, filed with the SEC in late April, two numbers sit within pages of each other. The first: Meta expects to spend between $125 billion and $145 billion on capital expenditures this year, nearly all of it flowing toward data centers and AI compute hardware. The second, visible not…

132,000 tech workers have lost their jobs in 2026 – and the companies cutting them are spending $725 billion on AI this year In January, a Microsoft program manager in the Seattle area learned her role had been eliminated in what the company called a performance-based restructuring. By March, she had company. Thousands more cuts…

Cisco Systems just turned in the best quarter in its 41-year history, reporting $15.8 billion in revenue for fiscal Q3 2026. Within days, the company informed more than 4,000 employees that their jobs were being eliminated. The cuts, roughly 5% of Cisco’s global workforce, were disclosed alongside the earnings report in May 2026. On the…

By the time most Americans had finished their morning coffee on May 10, 2026, roughly 38,000 of their neighbors had already received layoff notices that month. The running tally, compiled by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas from public company announcements, marks the third consecutive month in which employers cited artificial intelligence as the single…

When IBM announced in 2023 that it would pause hiring for roughly 7,800 roles it believed AI could eventually handle, the move was treated as a bellwether. Dropbox, Chegg, and Duolingo followed with their own AI-linked cuts. The implicit promise was straightforward: fewer workers plus smarter software equals better results. Three years later, the data…