AI workforce events sorted by newest first, including planned items when they are explicitly reported.
Wix announced a roughly 20% workforce reduction, about 1,000 jobs, citing both shekel-dollar currency pressure and the rapid evolution of AI capabilities as reasons to become a leaner, flatter organization.
Meta told employees it would cut about 10% of its workforce, roughly 8,000 jobs, beginning May 20, while also closing 6,000 open roles as it pursued efficiency and heavy AI investment.
Intuit is laying off about 17% of its workforce, roughly 3,000 employees worldwide, to simplify its corporate structure and sharpen its focus on AI across its products.
Standard Chartered said it would cut 15% of its back-office roles by 2030, about 7,800 redundancies, with automation and AI adoption driving a slimmer operating model.
Cisco said it would cut around 5% of its workforce, nearly 4,000 jobs, while changing its cost structure to invest more in AI and cybersecurity after reporting strong quarterly results.
General Motors laid off about 600 salaried IT employees, more than 10% of its IT department, while continuing to hire for AI-native development, data engineering, cloud engineering, and model or agent development skills.
Cloudflare announced it would cut about 20% of its workforce, or 1,100 jobs, saying the move was not cost cutting but a change in how a high-growth company operates in the agentic AI era.
DeepL said it would cut around 250 jobs, about a quarter of its workforce, as it moved toward smaller teams and embedded AI into how the company operates.
Ticketmaster cut about 350 employees across 25 countries, primarily in engineering, product, and design, while flattening layers and investing behind fewer technology initiatives.
Coinbase said it would cut about 700 jobs, or 14% of its global workforce, as it trimmed costs and reorganized around AI-driven workflows.