Tech Layoff Tracker
Tech layoffs, tracked event by event
79,415 people across 29 major events tracked in 2026 so far. This tech layoff tracker pairs live events detected from the news hourly with a curated, sourced history of every major cut since 2022. Curated layer last updated August 2026.
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People affected
485K
Across all tracked events since Jan 2022
Events tracked
122
Major announcements, hand-curated & sourced
AI-attributed people
166K
Where companies or reporting cited AI
AI-attributed share
34%
By people · 37% by events
Tech layoffs in 2026: what the data shows
Tech layoffs in 2026 have reached 79K people across 29 major tracked events so far, against 138K tracked across all of 2025. The largest single event of the year is Oracle, at 21,000 positions. The pace is the story: cuts now arrive as routine restructuring at profitable companies, not as distress signals.
Of the people affected by tech layoffs this year, 70%worked at companies that explicitly connected the cut to AI, whether as substitution, reallocation toward AI investment, or “AI-driven efficiency.” Our attribution is deliberately conservative: an event only gets the AI badge when the company itself or credible reporting makes the link, so the real share is likely higher.
This tech layoff tracker exists to hold the whole picture in one place: filter the table below by year, industry, or company; follow the live wire above for events detected within the hour; and every curated entry names its source — links are being added across the archive, newest first. If a cut touches your employer, the warning signs checklist and the layoff risk calculator turn the data into a plan.
All tracked events
Counts reflect figures reported at announcement; companies sometimes revise them. The AI badge marks events where the company or credible reporting tied the cut to AI, substitution, reallocation, or AI-driven efficiency.
122 events · 485,258 people affected
- Zillow−500
2026-08 · Consumer Tech
Cut just over 500 roles, about 7% of staff, in a broad restructuring.
Source: Fast Company
- TikTok−250
2026-08 · Social Media
Closed its Nashville office of about 250 people, mostly trust-and-safety and content moderation roles.
Source: Fast Company
- Etsy−220
2026-08 · E-commerce
CEO Kruti Patel Goyal confirmed about 220 departures, close to 12% of the workforce.
Source: IBTimes
- GoogleUndisclosed
2026-08 · Big Tech
Cut hundreds of roles across several units in early August; total headcount undisclosed.
Source: IBTimes
- monday.com−630
2026-07 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
A fifth of the company cut as it restructures 'for the AI era' around its AI work platform.
Source: Engadget
- Visa−2,600
2026-07 · Fintech · AI (likely)
Efficiency push announced ahead of an earnings beat, with AI reshaping operations roles.
Source: CNBC
- Microsoft−4,800
2026-07 · Big Tech · AI (likely)
Cuts concentrated in Xbox and sales while record AI infrastructure spending continues.
Source: Computerworld
- Uber (customer service)−10%
2026-07 · Transportation & Delivery · AI (likely)
~10% of the customer-service organization cut as AI absorbs support volume.
Source: Engadget
- Rackspace−750
2026-06 · IT Services & Consulting · AI (likely)
Managed-cloud provider restructures toward AI-focused services.
Source: Engadget
- Robinhood−290
2026-06 · Fintech · AI (likely)
Restructuring framed around 'frontier technologies' absorbing operational work.
Source: Engadget
- Lucid Motors−18%
2026-06 · Automotive
Profitability push amid brutal EV competition.
Source: Engadget
- Intuit−3,000
2026-05 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
Second AI-driven restructuring after 2024's playbook, cuts to 'infuse AI across services'.
Source: Engadget
- Meta−8,000
2026-05 · Big Tech · AI (likely)
Engineering and product hit hardest in cuts explicitly making 'room for AI spending'.
Source: Computerworld
- Cisco−3,900
2026-05 · Hardware & Chips · AI (likely)
Cut despite record revenue, savings redirected to silicon, optics, security and AI.
Source: Computerworld
- Cloudflare−1,100
2026-05 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
A fifth of staff cut to 'define operations for the agentic AI era'.
Source: Computerworld
- PayPal−4,800
2026-05 · Fintech · AI (likely)
Third major cut of the decade, 'remove duplication, accelerate AI and automation'.
Source: Engadget
- Coinbase−700
2026-05 · Crypto · AI (likely)
Market conditions plus AI adoption cited together.
Source: Engadget
- Wix−1,000
2026-05 · E-commerce · AI (likely)
Website-builder incumbent restructures as AI site-generation resets the market.
Source: Engadget
- LinkedIn−875
2026-05 · Social Media
Reorganization across business units; AI not cited.
Source: Engadget
- Groupon−400
2026-05 · E-commerce · AI (likely)
A quarter of staff cut in a rebuild as an 'AI-native company'.
Source: Engadget
- Snap−1,000
2026-04 · Social Media · AI (likely)
Third major cut in four years, this one to 'leverage AI to streamline operations'.
Source: Engadget
- Nike (technology)−1,400
2026-04 · Retail & Corporate
Global streamlining with the majority of cuts in technology roles.
Source: Engadget
- Disney−1,000
2026-04 · Media & Streaming
Streamlining toward an 'agile, tech-enabled workforce'.
Source: Engadget
- Oracle−21,000
2026-03 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
Largest cut in company history (early reports said up to 30,000) while managing massive AI-infrastructure spending.
Source: Computerworld
- Atlassian−1,600
2026-03 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
Cuts explicitly to 'self-fund' AI investment and enterprise sales expansion.
Source: Computerworld
- Epic Games−1,000
2026-03 · Gaming
Fortnite engagement downturn drives the gaming industry's latest contraction.
Source: Engadget
- Salesforce−1,000
2026-02 · Enterprise SaaS
Cost reduction across divisions, including, notably, the Agentforce AI unit itself.
Source: Engadget
- Amazon−16,000
2026-01 · Big Tech
Follow-on to late-2025's record cut, with AWS and technical roles hit disproportionately.
Source: Computerworld
- Ericsson−1,600
2026-01 · Telecom
Cost cutting amid the ongoing telecom equipment spending downturn.
Source: Computerworld
- Verizon−13,000
2025-11 · Telecom
Largest cut in company history as new CEO restructures non-union workforce.
Source: Reuters
- HP−5,000
2025-11 · Hardware & Chips · AI (confirmed)
4,000–6,000 roles by 2028 as AI is embedded across product development, support and operations.
Source: CNBC
- Amazon−14,000
2025-10 · Big Tech · AI (likely)
Largest corporate cut in Amazon's history; leadership cited a leaner org for the 'AI era'. Reports pointed to up to 30,000 planned.
Source: Reuters
- Paramount Skydance−2,000
2025-10 · Media & Streaming
Post-merger restructuring across legacy TV and streaming units.
Source: Variety
- Meta (Superintelligence Labs)−600
2025-10 · Big Tech · AI (likely)
Restructuring inside Meta's AI unit itself, even AI teams are not immune to consolidation.
Source: Axios
- Lufthansa Group−4,000
2025-10 · Travel · AI (likely)
4,000 administrative roles to be cut by 2030, explicitly attributed to AI and digitalisation.
Source: Reuters
- Target (corporate)−1,800
2025-10 · Retail & Corporate
First major corporate cut in a decade, a signal that white-collar tightening spread beyond tech.
Source: CNBC
- Accenture−11,000
2025-09 · IT Services & Consulting · AI (likely)
CEO said staff who cannot be reskilled for AI delivery will be 'exited', reskilling as a condition of employment.
Source: Financial Times
- Salesforce−4,000
2025-09 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (confirmed)
Customer-support roles cut after CEO Marc Benioff said AI agents now handle up to half of support conversations.
Source: CNBC
- Oracle−3,000
2025-08 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
Cuts across cloud units as spending shifts toward AI datacenter build-out.
Source: Bloomberg
- Tata Consultancy Services−12,000
2025-07 · IT Services & Consulting · AI (likely)
Largest layoff in Indian IT history, mid/senior staff whose skills no longer matched an AI-led delivery model.
Source: Reuters
- Recruit Holdings (Indeed / Glassdoor)−1,300
2025-07 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
Glassdoor folded into Indeed; CEO memo said 'AI is changing the world', the job-search industry cutting its own staff.
Source: TechCrunch
- Microsoft−9,000
2025-07 · Big Tech · AI (likely)
Second wave of 2025 cuts (~15,000 total for the year) while committing record capex to AI infrastructure.
Source: CNBC
- Intel−24,000
2025-07 · Hardware & Chips
New CEO Lip-Bu Tan shrinks Intel toward ~75,000 core employees after years of falling behind in the AI chip race.
Source: Reuters
- Bumble−240
2025-06 · Consumer Tech
Third of workforce cut as dating-app growth stalls.
Source: Bloomberg
- Walmart (corporate/tech)−1,500
2025-05 · Retail & Corporate · AI (likely)
Global tech and corporate roles simplified 'to move faster', with automation absorbing coordination work.
Source: Wall Street Journal
- Microsoft−6,000
2025-05 · Big Tech · AI (likely)
Cuts concentrated on management layers and non-coding roles; CEO noted AI now writes a meaningful share of Microsoft's code.
Source: CNBC
- CrowdStrike−500
2025-05 · Cybersecurity · AI (confirmed)
CEO memo: 'AI flattens our hiring curve', one of the most explicit AI-for-headcount statements on record.
Source: CNBC
- Panasonic−10,000
2025-05 · Industrial & Manufacturing
Global restructuring split between Japan and overseas operations.
Source: Nikkei
- Block (Square / Cash App)−930
2025-03 · Fintech
Jack Dorsey flattens the org; performance and strategy cited over cost.
Source: TechCrunch
- Siemens−5,600
2025-03 · Industrial & Manufacturing
Cuts in factory-automation unit amid weak demand in China and Germany.
Source: Reuters
- HP−2,000
2025-02 · Hardware & Chips
'Future Now' restructuring plan extended with further cuts.
Source: Bloomberg
- Workday−1,750
2025-02 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
CEO: 'companies everywhere are reimagining how work gets done', capital redirected into AI while HR-software headcount shrank.
Source: CNBC
- Meta−3,600
2025-02 · Big Tech · AI (likely)
'Low performers' cut in a raise-the-bar exercise while Meta hired aggressively for machine-learning roles.
Source: Bloomberg
- Salesforce−1,000
2025-02 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
Cuts announced while simultaneously hiring thousands of AI-product salespeople, replacement, not shrinkage.
Source: Bloomberg
- Freshworks−660
2024-11 · Enterprise SaaS
Global restructuring across sales and marketing.
Source: TechCrunch
- Dropbox−528
2024-10 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
Second AI-era cut: CEO said the company was in a 'transitional period' investing in AI products.
Source: Company memo
- Intel−15,000
2024-08 · Hardware & Chips
Historic cost-cutting after missing the AI datacenter boom that lifted Nvidia.
Source: Reuters
- Cisco−5,900
2024-08 · Hardware & Chips · AI (likely)
Second 2024 cut, explicitly to 'invest in key growth opportunities and drive more efficiencies', AI and security.
Source: Reuters
- General Motors (software org)−1,000
2024-08 · Automotive
Software and services division trimmed after rapid over-hiring.
Source: CNBC
- Intuit−1,800
2024-07 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
CEO openly reframed layoffs as reallocation: same headcount re-hired into AI-focused roles.
Source: Company letter
- Tesla−14,000
2024-04 · Automotive
Global 10%+ cut including the entire Supercharger team.
Source: Electrek
- Dell−6,000
2024-03 · Hardware & Chips · AI (likely)
One of several waves in 2024 (~12,500 total) as Dell reorganised its salesforce around AI infrastructure.
Source: The Register
- Electronic Arts−670
2024-02 · Gaming
Part of an industry-wide gaming contraction of 10,000+ roles in 2024.
Source: IGN
- Sony (PlayStation)−900
2024-02 · Gaming
Studio closures including PlayStation London.
Source: The Verge
- Snap−528
2024-02 · Social Media
Flattening the org to 'reduce hierarchy'.
Source: CNBC
- Expedia−1,500
2024-02 · Travel
Restructuring after a multi-year platform rebuild.
Source: Skift
- Bumble−350
2024-02 · Consumer Tech
New CEO resets the company around a smaller core.
Source: TechCrunch
- Grammarly−230
2024-02 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
Restructured 'to focus on the AI-enabled workplace', a writing-AI company reorganising because of AI.
Source: TechCrunch
- SAP−8,000
2024-01 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
€2bn restructuring explicitly 'to increase focus on key strategic growth areas, in particular business AI'.
Source: Reuters
- Microsoft (Activision Blizzard)−1,900
2024-01 · Gaming
Post-acquisition consolidation of the gaming division.
Source: The Verge
- eBay−1,000
2024-01 · E-commerce
Full-time roles cut alongside contractor reductions.
Source: Company blog
- Unity−1,800
2024-01 · Gaming
'Company reset' after the runtime-fee pricing backlash.
Source: Reuters
- PayPal−2,500
2024-01 · Fintech
Second major cut in twelve months under a new CEO.
Source: CNBC
- Google−1,000
2024-01 · Big Tech · AI (likely)
Hardware, Assistant and ad-sales cuts; Sundar Pichai warned of more as resources shifted to Gemini. Ad-sales roles were replaced partly by AI tooling.
Source: The Verge
- Amazon (Twitch, Prime Video, MGM)−1,000
2024-01 · Big Tech
Twitch cut 35% of staff; Prime Video and MGM Studios trimmed hundreds more.
Source: CNBC
- Duolingo−10%
2024-01 · EdTech · AI (likely)
~10% of contractors cut as generative AI took over translation and content work, an early, explicit AI substitution.
Source: Bloomberg
- Discord−170
2024-01 · Social Media
Correcting a 5x pandemic-era headcount expansion.
Source: The Verge
- Spotify−1,500
2023-12 · Media & Streaming
Third cut of 2023; CEO admitted the company hired ahead of its business in 2020–21.
Source: Company letter
- Twilio−400
2023-12 · Enterprise SaaS
Second cut of 2023 amid activist-investor pressure.
Source: CNBC
- Stack Overflow−100
2023-10 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
Traffic and revenue fell as developers shifted questions to AI assistants, a business model directly disrupted by LLMs.
Source: The Verge
- LinkedIn−668
2023-10 · Social Media
Second 2023 cut (716 in May), concentrated in engineering.
Source: CNBC
- Nokia−14,000
2023-10 · Telecom
Up to 14,000 roles by 2026 after a 5G equipment demand slump.
Source: Reuters
- Qualcomm−1,258
2023-10 · Hardware & Chips
Cuts in California offices amid a smartphone-chip downturn.
Source: CNBC
- Chegg−80
2023-06 · EdTech · AI (likely)
The canonical AI-disruption story: the stock halved after the CEO said students were choosing ChatGPT over Chegg.
Source: CNBC
- Shopify−2,000
2023-05 · E-commerce
Second major cut; logistics arm sold to Flexport the same day.
Source: CNBC
- LinkedIn−716
2023-05 · Social Media
Sales and operations restructure; China job app shut down.
Source: BBC
- IBM−7,800
2023-05 · IT Services & Consulting · AI (likely)
CEO Arvind Krishna paused hiring for ~7,800 back-office roles he expected AI to perform within five years.
Source: Bloomberg
- Vodafone−11,000
2023-05 · Telecom
Three-year simplification plan under a new CEO.
Source: Reuters
- Dropbox−500
2023-04 · Enterprise SaaS · AI (likely)
CEO Drew Houston: 'the AI era of computing has finally arrived', cuts made to hire different, AI-focused skill sets.
Source: Company memo
- Lyft−1,072
2023-04 · Transportation & Delivery
New CEO cuts over a quarter of staff to compete with Uber on price.
Source: CNBC
- Meta−10,000
2023-03 · Big Tech
The 'Year of Efficiency': second mass layoff in five months, plus 5,000 closed open roles.
Source: Company post
- Accenture−19,000
2023-03 · IT Services & Consulting
Largest consulting-industry cut of the cycle, mostly back-office roles.
Source: Reuters
- Amazon−9,000
2023-03 · Big Tech
Second wave (27,000 total across 2022–23), hitting AWS, advertising and Twitch.
Source: CNBC
- Indeed−2,200
2023-03 · Enterprise SaaS
The job-search leader cut staff as job postings fell from post-pandemic peaks.
Source: Company blog
- Ericsson−8,500
2023-02 · Telecom
Global cost-cutting as 5G roll-out spending cooled.
Source: Reuters
- Zoom−1,300
2023-02 · Enterprise SaaS
The defining pandemic-boom stock corrects; CEO cut his own salary 98%.
Source: Company memo
- Dell−6,650
2023-02 · Hardware & Chips
PC demand collapse after the work-from-home hardware boom.
Source: Bloomberg
- Yahoo−1,600
2023-02 · Media & Streaming
Ad-tech unit cut by nearly 50% over the year.
Source: Axios
- Twilio−1,500
2023-02 · Enterprise SaaS
Second cut in six months (11% in Sept 2022).
Source: CNBC
- PayPal−2,000
2023-01 · Fintech
Fintech correction after the e-commerce boom faded.
Source: CNBC
- SAP−3,000
2023-01 · Enterprise SaaS
Restructuring ahead of the larger 2024 AI-driven overhaul.
Source: Reuters
- IBM−3,900
2023-01 · IT Services & Consulting
Cuts tied to the Kyndryl spin-off and Watson Health sale.
Source: Bloomberg
- Salesforce−8,000
2023-01 · Enterprise SaaS
'We hired too many people', Marc Benioff's admission became the cycle's epitaph.
Source: Company letter
- Google−12,000
2023-01 · Big Tech
Largest cut in Alphabet history, announced days after Microsoft's, the peak of the correction.
Source: Company blog
- Microsoft−10,000
2023-01 · Big Tech
Announced the same month as its multibillion-dollar OpenAI investment, cutting people while buying AI.
Source: CNBC
- Amazon−18,000
2023-01 · Big Tech
Then the largest layoff in tech history: devices, retail and HR hit hardest.
Source: Company blog
- Spotify−600
2023-01 · Media & Streaming
First of three cuts in 2023.
Source: Company blog
- Cisco−4,100
2022-11 · Hardware & Chips
'Rebalancing' announced with quarterly earnings.
Source: Reuters
- DoorDash−1,250
2022-11 · Transportation & Delivery
Pandemic delivery boom normalises.
Source: CNBC
- Meta−11,000
2022-11 · Big Tech
Zuckerberg: 'I got this wrong', the first mass layoff in Meta's history opened the floodgates.
Source: Company letter
- Amazon−10,000
2022-11 · Big Tech
Devices and books organisations hit first; grew to 18,000 by January.
Source: New York Times
- Twitter / X−3,700
2022-11 · Social Media
Half the company cut days after Elon Musk's takeover, and the product kept running, a fact executives everywhere noticed.
Source: Reuters
- Stripe−1,100
2022-11 · Fintech
Collison brothers: 'we overhired for the world we're in'.
Source: Company email
- Lyft−683
2022-11 · Transportation & Delivery
Second cut of 2022 amid recession fears.
Source: CNBC
- Carvana−1,500
2022-11 · E-commerce
Second cut of 2022 (2,500 in May) as used-car prices fell.
Source: CNBC
- Snap−1,280
2022-08 · Social Media
Ad-market slump forces a 20% cut and project cancellations.
Source: The Verge
- Robinhood−780
2022-08 · Fintech
Second 2022 cut as retail-trading mania unwound.
Source: CNBC
- Shopify−1,000
2022-07 · E-commerce
Tobi Lütke: 'I got this wrong', the e-commerce-forever bet unwinds.
Source: Company memo
- Coinbase−1,100
2022-06 · Crypto
Crypto winter: rescinded offers and an 18% cut within a year of going public.
Source: Company blog
- Netflix−450
2022-05 · Media & Streaming
Two rounds after the first subscriber loss in a decade, the event that started the 2022 sentiment turn.
Source: Variety
- Carvana−2,500
2022-05 · E-commerce
Fired 12% of staff, some over Zoom, as pandemic-era demand reversed.
Source: CNBC
- Peloton−2,800
2022-02 · Consumer Tech
The first great pandemic-darling correction; CEO replaced the same day.
Source: CNBC
Tech layoff tracker FAQ
What is a tech layoff tracker?
A tech layoff tracker is a continuously updated record of workforce reductions across the technology industry: which company cut, when, how many people were affected, and why. This tech layoff tracker adds two things most lists lack: a live wire that auto-detects new layoff events from news feeds every hour, and conservative AI attribution, marking only the cuts that companies or credible reporting explicitly tied to AI.
How many tech layoffs have there been in 2026?
Our curated tracker counts 79,415 people across 29 major events in 2026 so far, against 137,820 in all of 2025 — about 58% of last year's total. Industry-wide aggregates such as Layoffs.fyi run higher (125,000+ people across 260+ companies as of 2026-08-06) because they include hundreds of smaller companies. Our totals are lower on purpose: we count only major, individually sourced events. The largest single event of 2026 in our tracker is Oracle, at 21,000 positions.
Which companies announced layoffs most recently?
The most recent curated entries are Zillow, TikTok, Etsy, Google. The live wire section above surfaces newly reported events within about an hour; they are verified before joining the curated dataset and are excluded from every statistic until then.
How many layoffs are caused by AI?
Attribution is the hard part, so this tracker is conservative: an event is AI-badged only when the company itself or credible reporting explicitly tied the cut to AI. Our measure is shown live in the stats above, on both a people-affected and an event-count basis. Looser industry analyses attribute a larger share of events at least partly to AI or automation.
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