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October 2026

425 filings · 1,133,237 humans automated on record.

10-31 Dropbox finds 110 files it no longer needs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-31 Microsoft offers 60,000 people a graceful exit from relevance ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-31 Entry-level marketing jobs consolidated into one very busy survivor ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-31 Amazon tells staff to use AI more, then cuts 250 jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-31 Virgin Media O2 cuts a quarter of staff, calls it signal ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-31 MacPaw trims 30 marketers, calls it a structure update ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-31 Heineken cuts 6,000 jobs, calls it refreshment ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-31 MediaCorp reorganizes away from 50 employees ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-31 Hello Sunshine, goodbye half the staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Ubisoft streamlines three German studios by 100 people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Qualcomm, Barclays, eBay and Microsoft all restructure on the same news cycle ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Citi books $200mn severance line item, calls it efficiency ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 NatWest finds £420m in savings, 1,400 of them were people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Conduent tolls out 113 jobs for $70 million ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Finnish wire service STT to go dark in March ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Coolbet bets against its own Tallinn workforce ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Zoho founder does math, gets 10x, sounds worried ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Home.pl finds AI, loses dozens of employees in Szczecin ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Legendary chili sauce maker may swap hundreds of workers for algorithm ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Company un-fires 350 engineers it definitely didn't need ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 ING posts 1.85 billion euros, axes 400 jobs anyway ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Proton's privacy pitch doesn't extend to your job security ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Critical Software finds 200 jobs non-critical ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Wells Fargo picks Dec. 26 to deliver 86 pink slips ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-30 Lenz trims 75% of staff, calls it strategic clarity ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Medialivre lays out 12 layout artists ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Eight in ten companies just quietly stopped hiring humans ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Unico's selfie-ID firm quadruples output, shrinks the humans behind it ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Replit fires the developers, hires the vibe ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Marpai's call center finds 40% savings, zero coincidences ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Happen does more loans with a fifth fewer humans ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Estonia's CRM unicorn restructures, offices go quiet ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Manchester CEO says AI does better work, same energy ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Owner cuts two-thirds of staff, calls it booming ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 Intel trims 67 in Folsom, calls it the first of the year ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 ServiceNow spends $167 million to avoid the word layoffs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-29 KT's AI takes 1.2 million calls, reports no deaths yet ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 20% of staff cut, AI revenue called the bright spot ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Amazon and Dropbox both discover a small number of roles ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 CargoAi's bot now answers 70 percent of the mail ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 ServiceNow finally admits it's gunning for your payroll line ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Supply chains optimize themselves right out of entry-level jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Elementor personalizes everything except the layoffs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 GiG Software cuts 25% of staff, keeps its name ironic ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Dropbox drops about 20% of staff, keeps the folders ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Critical acclaim, 25% fewer critics of the layoff memo ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 EA's AI push leaves staff trust in the respawn queue ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Gjensidige frees up resources by freeing 40 developers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Danish banks fire staff, hire 100plus AI specialists instead ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Microsoft guts Copilot team, the division named after staying ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Scripps cuts 431 jobs, conjures 100 new ones from the ether ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Telegraph restructures toward an AI future, minus some staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Apple trims 400 jobs, including the AI team building its replacements ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-28 Cognizant merges three engineering units into one smaller headache ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-27 Fast fashion finds a model employee who never gets tired ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-27 Innodata trims 550 jobs training the thing that trimmed them ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-27 Swedbank cuts 100 now, previews sequel starring AI ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-27 Mediahuis trims 35 jobs, calls it a plan ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-27 Don't Nod cuts nearly every non-manager, somehow keeps the managers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-27 Prophecy International finds $7.5 million in savings, misplaces half its staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-27 Zalando's models now exist only in the uncanny valley ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-27 Six IT giants shed 24,000 jobs, call it attrition ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-27 Omnicom wraps restructuring, 15,000 jobs left on the cutting room floor ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 Charity arm restructures itself, 60 jobs become the cause ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 Proton asks staff to re-apply for jobs by proving AI love ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 PolicyFly shrinks a five-person job down to a rounding error ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 Microsoft offers 60,000 employees a choice: jump or be pushed ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 200,000 signatures, zero seats at BioWare ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 Ikea cuts 1,650 jobs, blames everything but the obvious roommate ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 Payroll company pays fewer humans to talk about payroll ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 The Hague automates itself into a tidier balance sheet ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 Barclays drafts a list, checks it for AI twice ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 Netflix cuts 6% of staff while streaming record profits ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-26 Rapyd pivots to AI, employees pivot to unemployment ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Supermarket chain scans and bags 3,000 jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Block blames AI, Barclays blames everything but ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Companies un-fire the humans, call it strategy ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Big tech trims itself, calls it AI growth ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Nationwide finds 275 ways to say 'redundant' ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 200,000 creative jobs vanish, suspect list stays suspiciously vague ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Tennis Channel aces its editorial department out ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Vercel shrinks sales team from ten to one, plus a bot ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Rippling's engineers get benched by the cheaper bot ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 NAB cuts 2,500 jobs, AI subpoenaed as character witness ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Benioff cuts support staff to 5,000, calls it upskilling ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-25 Actor replaced by AI that also can't nail the take ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-24 Anthropic's platform team now writes zero lines of its own code ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-24 Profits up, headcount down, AI future secured ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-24 Japan's new grads get preemptively automated, four years early ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-24 Barclays, Block, and Meta synchronize their severance calendars ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-24 Generali insures everything except 800 jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 Telegram coder says AI writes client, humans should write resignation letters ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 Standard Chartered streamlines decision-making out of 15% of back office jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 Reuters counts 100,000 AI pink slips, banks lead the ledger ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 Telegraph to reinvent reader experience, minus 100 readers' bylines ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 AmEx charges $336 million to members' account, waives it for itself ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 Eric Schmidt does the math nobody at HR wanted to ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 Volvo cuts 2,500 jobs, market knocks off a billion anyway ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 India's IT giants trim 24,422 jobs, call it optimization ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 The layoff list gets a running tally and a group chat ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 Volvo's airbags still deploy faster than severance ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 Atlassian cuts 1,500 jobs, calls it an investment ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 SBI Securities shaves 2,933 hours off human small talk ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 One digital agent, twenty salaries, zero severance meetings ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-23 Unnamed global bank cuts 5,000 jobs to fund its own replacement ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Video editor's job hits zero, nobody's job title does ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Kroger trims 3,000 jobs, calls it freshness initiative ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Tens of thousands laid off, AI gets co-writing credit ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Eric Schmidt discovers org charts have glue, wants it gone ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Stockly won't hire the devs it meant to hire ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Barclays finds 5,000 efficiencies, all of them people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Westpac trims 140 jobs, calls it weak housing, not weak excuses ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Nine Entertainment trims 30 newsroom jobs, keeps the algorithm on staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Comcast seeks nimbler workforce, sheds the heavy parts ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 24,000 jobs vanish, labeled normal attrition ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-22 Mars cuts 55 IT jobs, keeps the M&M mascots ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 q.beyond's AI transformation costs EUR 4.3m, savings tbd ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 Qualcomm trims the underperformers, pivots to overperforming machines ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 India's IT giants find 7,000 efficiencies, call it hiring strategy ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 BioWare gets archived, Battlefront gets a sequel ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 Design teams can now do more with less you ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 Anthropic builds the ladder, then kicks away the bottom rung ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 DNB banks 10 billion, debanks 400 employees ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 eBay streamlines itself down to 1,100 fewer people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 Company cuts half its staff, doubles its editing workload ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 Volkswagen gives 330,000 workers Copilot, and a hint ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 Bending Spoons acquires companies, then acquires their silence ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 Adcore trims a quarter of staff, keeps the AI division ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 Microsoft rationalizes 62 Italians into unemployment ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 World Bank finds the bottom rung just quietly vanished ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-21 AWS CEO does the math: 294 jobs, zero regrets ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 Vermont firm leans into AI, lands on employees ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 Academic bloat finally finds its diet plan ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 Marklo hires 11, lets AI cover the other 69 desks ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 Flutter cuts 1,400 jobs, declines to name the dealer ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 Bird shrinks flock from 1,000 to 120, calls it survival of the fittest ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 NEC's new department staffs only AI, calls it empowering humanity ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 Pella closes plant it opened on your tax dollars ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 Lookiero and Outfittery merge, 55 wardrobes simplified ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 Laser-weeding startup weeds its own payroll ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-20 Swiss publishers cut 310 jobs, call it a question of efficiency ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Ottawa's translation bureau to lose 339 words for 'attrition' ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Lastminute.com cuts a quarter of staff, books it as a feature ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 NAB finds 2,500 ways to say efficiency ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Nordic bank finds 400 efficiencies, calls it disruption ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Zendesk's new hires never ask for a raise or a desk ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 AI finally tops the layoff leaderboard, no asterisk needed ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 NZME trims newsroom, product and dev, blames the usual weather ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Loto-Québec bets on AI to cover retirees' shifts ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Covisian's call center shrinks again, no algorithm blamed this time ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Amazon maps a smaller New York, 15 warehouses at a time ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Acrisure trims 2,250 jobs, calls it a transformation program ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Starlink's hold music now leads directly to Grok ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-19 Boeing streamlines itself past 1,800 Seattle jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 Auntie Beeb trims 110 techies, keeps the deficit ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 Spotify right-sizes itself down to 1,500 fewer humans ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 Salesforce finds 400 workers it never has to hire ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 BMW's self-driving unit drives itself off the payroll ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 Fastenal calls 400 fewer salespeople 'good hygiene' ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 India's IT managers get optimized out of the org chart ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 Ad shoot shrinks from dozens of crew to one prompt box ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 Deloitte consults itself into cutting 170 jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 GoStudent shrinks from 2,500 to 150, calls it a reset ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-18 Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs, finds $95 billion for data centers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-17 Junior dev postings cut nearly in half, seniority required at birth ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-17 Wipro trims 6,716 jobs, certifies thousands more in 'AI-ready' ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-17 Rokt collapses 15 career ladders into four, calls it empowerment ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-17 Full stack developer, redundant stack included ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-17 Disney lays off humans, then buys a chatbot's talent budget ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-17 Monday.com's AI pivot cuts 20% of the people who track work ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-17 CWT books 190 employees a one-way trip out ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-17 Anthropic finds its own agents outwork staff six to one ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Journal team trains replacement, gets $1,000 and a Zoom goodbye ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Aussie firm pays two years' salary to train your replacement ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Anthropic admits its own product ate its entry level ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Sterling Heights plants cite "unforeseeable circumstances," lay off 200 anyway ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Dublin's tech workers discover collective bargaining, right on schedule ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Epic cuts 1,000 jobs, tells survivors AI is the new coworker ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Milan's first AI layoffs arrive, with more offices in the queue ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 400,000 employees trained on AI, 20 days before the layoffs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 BofA cuts 3,000 jobs, hires 1,000 contractors to clean up the AI ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Compliance guru retires, gets replaced by a login ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Netflix cancels a thousand jobs, no renewal vote needed ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Thinkific cuts 96 jobs, analysts raise price target ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Foxtel tries to automate humans away, settles for regret ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 16,000 corporate jobs streamlined, AI budget thickened ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Pokeworks freezes hiring, keeps growing anyway ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Workday exec says you were always in the boardroom, actually ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 McKinsey automates the slide decks it used to bill $2M to make ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 GSK trims 1,217 jobs, mostly the people who managed people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-16 Kroger finds 37% of office jobs were just duplicate work ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Persuasion essayist loses job, gains a title that explains itself ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 VW design chief: AI boosts creativity, shrinks headcount ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Big five publishers ban AI books, hire AI to edit the rest ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Four companies restructure around AI, ROI tbd ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Fed confirms AI job losses now official monetary policy data ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Block cuts 40% of staff, code review gets 150% chipper ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Hubtel freezes hiring, CEO promises 10-20x jobs someday ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Yale's donor letters now ghostwritten by actual ghosts in the machine ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Mercor fires 50 people, calls it a typo ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Rivian retitles the title department: deleted ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Meta trims 10 percent of staff, grows its AI org by the same breath ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Agency halves headcount, keeps the org chart for the bots ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Fed notices companies solving headcount by simply not hiring ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Deutz engines restructured, 300 jobs idle before the results call ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 DeepL flattens its org chart, finds no managers underneath ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 a16z eats its own cooking, recruiters get the bill ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Microsoft calls Vietnam staff into a meeting, then out the door ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Pimkie's parent outsources customer service to Tangier, AI included ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 BHP mines less overhead, same iron ore ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 TomTom recalculates route, 200 jobs fall off the map ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Samsung finds 20% of its phone division is now hypothetical ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 FlashAI does the work of five, hires zero ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Veloe's new IVR hangs up on 80% of its workforce's reason to exist ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Salesforce cuts support staff from 9,000 to 5,000, calls it support ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Workday renames your old job 'meta work', cuts 1,750 actual jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 StarHub reviews strategy, finds 300 fewer people needed ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Citi moves from 'restructuring' to 'excellence,' same 20,000 absences ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-15 Workday lays off humans, buys itself an AI firm ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 Axon aims AI at the people who built its AI ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 Infosys CEO previews the other half of the org chart ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 Cloudflare's 600% AI metric means everything and nothing ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 Recruiter calls disruption 'very good,' cuts own staff 15% ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 Factory workers wear GoPros to film their own farewell tour ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 Publicis sets a quarter-off sale on human tasks ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 Wharton surveys the arsonists, finds fires everywhere ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 200 million daily users, one increasingly edge-case team ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 FICO cuts hundreds, your credit score unaffected but curious ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 Xbox cuts 3,200 jobs, then opens a lab to study AI mods ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-14 Coforge flattens 13 career layers into four AI bands ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Lightspeed cuts 250 roles, some of which never existed ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 LinkedIn cuts 875 jobs right after its best quarter ever ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Microsoft and HoneyBook streamline Israeli tech, humans included ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 DocMorris prescribes itself a healthy dose of automation ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Mesa Labs finds $5M in savings, 40 of it human ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Mercor automates site reliability, reliability of SRE jobs unclear ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Basware's AI now answers half your complaints about Basware's customers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 POSCO DX CEO: people still matter, 20% of the work proves it ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 ONS finds clerical work is AI's favorite target ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Quantum Studios cuts 15% of artists, calls it unprecedented ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Duco reconciles the books, then the headcount ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Alibaba sheds a third of its workforce, calls it full-stack ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Services firm fables its way from 70 coders to eight ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Clay's agent does lead research so your SDR team doesn't have to ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Arctic Wolf CEO eyes 75 percent agentic SOC, humans optional ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Commerzbank finds 10% of staff capacity hiding in the AI budget ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Applied Materials to double revenue, keep headcount flat ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Billing reconciliation shrinks from four days to forty minutes ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-13 Standard Chartered streamlines Malaysia by 11 percent ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Epic Games tells staff: no more hand-written anything ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Bending Spoons buys Airtable, bends it into a smaller shape ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Kroger trims 3,000 corporate jobs, finds savings in aisle AI ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Scale AI, the company that labels data for robots, delabels 700 humans ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Microsoft's AI agent builders get built out ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Leadership's confidence in AI outlasted its confidence in one engineer ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Leela's pitch: compliance team of ten, headcount of none ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 India's entry-level ladder loses its bottom rungs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Cemex pours $475m in savings, Lyons plant loses half its crew ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Bird CEO discovers 'high agency' means doing your job plus the designer's ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Big brand swaps mom's voice for one with no soul, or salary ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Designers demoted from creatives to cleanup crew ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 CEO shrinks staff 88%, discovers remaining 120 have great 'agency' ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 ANZ's QA team fails its own exit interview ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Telia disconnects 900 employees to improve the signal ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 IBM exec says coding is now just 10% of the job, down from 60% ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-12 Wix cuts a fifth of staff, blames robots and exchange rates ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 McKinsey turns 100, gifts itself 10% fewer employees ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 Xero finds $145k in savings, misplaces the grad intake ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 KPMG cuts AI jobs, keeps the AI consulting slides ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 Junior dev's entry-level job offered a $20 understudy ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 HPE exec sets two-year countdown on human-free support ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 KPMG trims executive assistants, calls it a 'broader scope' ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 Visa charges 7% of staff to the restructuring account ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 OPmobility cuts 770 jobs, keeps the optimistic rebrand ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 One Zero rounds down to fewer employees ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-11 Westpac cuts 100-plus jobs, calls it banking as usual ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 Boss replaces one employee, forgets to replace his own hubris ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 Big Three cut 20,000 jobs, offer PowerPoint about cybersecurity careers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 Telegraph's 171 years of journalism meet a consultant's spreadsheet ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 Apple shelves plan to fire 5,000, keeps the AI that inspired it ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 Netflix finds 40% savings, VFX artists find the door unquantified ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 Wesfarmers finds 500,000 hours, politely declines to say whose ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 Newcastle council streamlines itself, minus 121 streamers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 Walmart's robot army stalls out on turkeys and boxes ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 Saber CEO forgets writer's name before remembering her lawsuit ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-10 UPS hires 100,000 temps to help cut 30,000 permanents ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Surveillance startup Flock watches its own headcount disappear ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 India's outsourcing engine idles, freshers need not apply ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Metro cuts 60 jobs, discovers profitability via subtraction ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 EBRA's regional papers strike over AI doing the layout ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Staffing company staffs up on bots instead of staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Studio of seven becomes studio of one plus algorithm ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Netflix cues up 850 layoffs, engagement still buffering ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 HubSpot's AI story has everything except the headcount ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Quartz staffs its website with one reporter and infinite patience ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Ghostwriters report fewer commissions, more hauntings by AI drafts ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 BBC unveils digital overhaul, staff unveil their doubts ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Porsche's new plan: fewer people, same zero to sixty ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Kill Boring Dead offers staff two years' pay to kill their own jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Revolut's CEO finds a way to grow without hiring anyone ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Best Buy outsources jobs, keeps the geek squad name ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-09 Facial-recognition giant can't recognize its own survival odds ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Oracle says 'anyone' can now do your job in minutes ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Nestlé finds 16,000 ways to cut costs by cutting people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 UK ad agencies lose 19% of their youngest staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 McClatchy cuts reporters, posts job for their replacement's babysitter ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Prior authorization for your own job: denied ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 India's IT giants automate the bottom rung off the ladder ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Bank project once needing 50 engineers now needs ten, a month ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 3M synergizes customer service into a Microsoft subscription ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Humane tech nonprofit goes founder-led, humanely cuts most staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Amazon trims support staff right before the big sale ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Apex Legends vets can't escape the layoff loop ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Deutsche Bank 3.0 boots up, 2,000 employees shut down ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Media Prima transforms its business by subtracting 300 people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 DC Thomson cuts 300 jobs, closes magazines about living, animals, and you ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Kingdom Come: Deliverance's localization guy localized out of a job ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Meta's AI chief says 100 engineers is a rounding error ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-08 Banco do Brasil's AI clocks in for 20,000 employees, none invited ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Scripps cuts 268 jobs, discovers streaming works great without them ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Feishu cuts 1,000 jobs, gets a more focused AI direction ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Kakao translates Kiwi Vine into a liquidation notice ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 DocMorris finds a prescription for 100 jobs: delete ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Gannett rebrands as an 'intelligence organization,' hires Palantir instead of reporters ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Nokia dials 253 Finns straight to voicemail ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Autodesk's CEO does the math so you don't have to ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Small businesses discover the ideal hire: nobody ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Saylor says AI outworked his team in a month, names no survivors ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 WiseTech cuts 30% of staff, loses the word 'AI' in translation ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Bayer turns 30 AI agents loose on its own consultants ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 KPMG's AI team gets automated, gets £100 for its silence ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 HSBC chief who warned AI would 'destroy jobs' destroys some jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-07 Paramount-Warner merger finds synergy, loses staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 FICO cuts 15% of staff, your credit score remains unmoved ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 Logistics firm 'recovers capacity' it never gives back ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 Bluevine's care center is 80% algorithm, fully caring ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 BBC fills top news job, empties 2,000 others ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 HubSpot realigns 660 employees right out the door ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 Gopuff automates dispatch, attrition does the rest ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 Nine combines two kitchens, fires half the cooks ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 Microsoft narrows its focus, and its headcount ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 OKX says Oli merges 95% of its code, humans approve of being approved ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 DNB simplifies life for customers, less so for staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 Maine outsources teaching the teachers to a chatbot ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-06 S4 Capital's agents work unsupervised, like the 800 people who no longer work at all ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Coinbase speeds up support testing, slows down having employees ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Middletown's packaging plant folds into Columbus efficiencies ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 LONGi hits 90 percent automation, solar jobs hit the panel recycling bin ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Tamedia trims 34 more jobs from newsrooms covering layoffs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Google's AI Overviews overview the traffic right out of Future ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Two founders, zero hires, twenty invisible coworkers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 IG Group's CTOs exit, AI ambitions remain fully staffed ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Snap restructures 1,000 people into a footnote ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Insurers' favorite new risk factor: their own staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Private equity buys Sapiens, fires the wisdom part ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Frag Magenta answers 2.6 million calls, zero of them awkward ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 BBC cuts 2,000 jobs the old-fashioned way, one drip at a time ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 NBCUniversal streams profitability, drains staff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Duolingo's owl eats 10 percent of the contractors ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-05 Entry level job market shrinks to one or two or three ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Dailyhunt parent automates the humans out of the hunt ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Warhorse Studios localizes its empathy into a machine ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Wonder fires 150 humans, hires robots to lose money faster ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Square Enix levels up its org chart, London falls off a cliff ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Rogers cuts customer service agents, hold music stays fully staffed ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 SOFTSWISS AI chief says the quiet part at full volume ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 CMS redesigns teams around tech, support staff left out of frame ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Eidos-Montréal trims 124 jobs, 'changing project needs' takes the blame ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 AI writes a compiler in 10 hours, engineers write resignation letters ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Truck plant cuts 1,400 jobs, schedules rally three days later ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Factory Zero gets closer to actual zero ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Oracle sends layoffs at 6 AM, before the humans can object ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Manulife shutters Malaysia tech unit, 300 jobs unplugged ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Fiverr's gig economy meets an economy of zero gigs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Lucid's connectivity director disconnects after nine years ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 Edward Jones trims up to 1,000 jobs, leads change with integrity ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-04 State Farm agents learn good neighbors need fewer humans ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Heriot-Watt declines to translate 41 jobs into a future ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Birmingham fails a transparency test, translates five jobs into none ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 PwC's CEO offers staff a choice: adapt or evaporate ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Block blames AI for 4,000 jobs Dorsey admits he overhired for ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Meta's AI safety team didn't survive contact with Meta ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 BNY finds algorithms better at counting trillions, people not included ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Nike trims a division, not a swoosh in sight ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 SSENSE develops a sharp eye for layoffs ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Atlassian execs huddle, staff get the agenda later ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Oracle files 441 layoffs, leaves the reason field blank ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Evonik cuts 3,200 jobs just to prove it can do it alone ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Equity Bank staff invited to reapply for their own jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Ping An's AI writes the code and answers the phones ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Sanofi upgrades its bots from obedient to autonomous ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Commonwealth Bank cuts 230 jobs, calls it a future workforce program ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Last Sentinel loses 80 humans before it loses its identity crisis ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 GM reshapes IT operations by removing the operators ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 VSCO cuts staff, applies a flattering filter called 'AI-native' ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 Edtech worker learns what the product was teaching ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-03 ServiceNow exec calls it life-changing, declines to say whose life ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Amazon's AI mandate kills the game before the players could ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Fiserv finds thousands of efficiencies, calls them people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Reach cuts 220 journalists chasing traffic AI already ate ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 McClatchy outsources lifestyle journalism to lifestyle-adjacent software ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Microsoft cuts 3,200 Xbox jobs, director cuts LinkedIn post ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Klarna's 700-person AI victory lap quietly reverses ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Anthropic's CFO says Claude writes the code, humans write the vibes ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 FactSet shrinks for the first time in years, growth unaffected ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Telstra's 'connected future' disconnects 650 jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Marvel shrinks its visual development team to project scale ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Flute player undercut by a Rs5,000 subscription ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 The Grout Guy's bot grouts the gaps in dispatch ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Android Central loses all its humans, keeps its pulse ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-02 Zoom cuts 1,300 jobs, calls say nothing about it ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 RTI sharpens its focus, dulls 200 careers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 Snyk secures your code, not your job ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 Gates proposes taxing the robots that are busy untaxing your job ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 TCS outsources 23,460 jobs to nobody ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 Banks keep the judgement, outsource the judgement calls anyway ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 AI claims fifth place in September, first place for the year ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 SAP tears up the no-layoffs clause right before it needs one ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 EA respawns without its QA testers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 F-Secure secures savings by unsecuring 145 jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 Kiwi.com sheds four out of five employees, revenue takes flight ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 Government banks $2.4 billion in AI savings nobody costed ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 Andela, once a launchpad for junior devs, demolishes the launchpad ✝ ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 Novo streamlines sales team down by 108 patients' worth of jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
10-01 Blaize cuts 26% of staff to focus on, checks notes, growth ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎