AI impact on Information Technology
Tracking AI-driven job losses and impacts in Information Technology: 40 reports, 29,450 jobs affected in sourced events. Posted and discussed by the people affected.
Verified AI job losses in Information Technology
Reports and discussion
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Oracle has told California it will cut 441 jobs in Redwood City, Santa Clara and Pleasanton on 13 November, the state's WARN list shows
Oracle America filed three WARN notices with California's Employment Development Department on 14 September 2026, received the following day, for permanent layoffs taking effect on…
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CrowdStrike cut about 500 jobs, and its chief executive told staff that AI flattens the hiring curve
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company, announced on 6 May 2025 a plan that it told the SEC "is expected to result in a reduction of roles representing approximately 500 positions …
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Bird cut about 20% of its staff, and its founder told them tasks that needed dedicated headcount no longer do because of AI
Bird, the Dutch business-messaging company formerly called MessageBird, reduced its headcount by "approximately 20%" on 11 May 2026, founder Robert Vis wrote in a note to all staff…
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Fiverr cut about 250 jobs after its chief executive wrote that AI means it does not need as many people
Fiverr, the Israeli freelance marketplace, told staff on 15 September 2025 that it would part ways with "approximately 250 team members across the different departments". The lette…
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OpenText is cutting 1,600 more jobs, and its chief executive says the work will be done with a machine via AI
OpenText, the Canadian enterprise-software company, expanded its restructuring on 30 April 2025 to a total net reduction of about 2,000 positions, an increase of about 1,600 on the…
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The AI safety protest reached OpenAI's developer conference with a new demand: do something about the layoffs
A few dozen protesters rallied outside OpenAI's DevDay conference at Fort Mason in San Francisco on 29 September 2026, and for the first time in this month's run of demonstrations …
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Thomson Reuters is cutting up to 500 engineers and hiring 250 'AI-native' ones, and its statement never says AI took the jobs
Thomson Reuters told engineering staff on 13 July 2026 that it is cutting up to 500 roles, about 1.8 percent of its 27,100 global workforce and 5.2 percent of its 9,400-strong oper…
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Google Layoff Pushed Engineer to Reject Lucrative Offer and Start AI Startup
Rob Waters, a 42-year-old Google data analytics and AI sales specialist, was laid off in November 2025 while traveling for work - his laptop was remotely disabled mid-flight. In De…
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Is AI replacing tech workers, or paying for itself with their jobs? 94,000 US tech layoffs so far in 2026
U.S. tech companies cut at least 94,046 jobs from January through August 2026, up 16.8% on the same months of 2025, according to Crunchbase's Tech Layoff Tracker. The year came in …
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Amazon and tech firms rehire workers after AI-driven layoffs prove premature
Amazon, Meta, and other tech companies are actively recruiting back former employees they previously laid off, according to Business Insider reporting. Maria Colacurcio, CEO of pay…
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San Francisco tech employment falls to 2019 levels as AI hiring fails to offset broader layoffs
Employment in San Francisco and San Mateo County's tech and professional services sectors has dropped to its lowest point since 2019, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data a…
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Will AI take jobs faster where the government is pushing it? What China's rollout has done to workers
The Associated Press reported on 24 August 2026, in a dispatch by Chan Ho-him and Fu Ting carried here by PBS NewsHour, that AI is pushing Chinese workers out of jobs while state p…
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Is AI the reason, or the cover story? A case that tech layoffs are really about cheaper labour abroad
SBS News in South Korea reported on 18 September 2026 that AI is being used as an explanation for tech layoffs that are really driven by cost. The piece is built on an interview wi…
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Did HP blame AI for its job cuts? Its SEC filings say AI efficiencies enable a 4,000 to 6,000 headcount reduction
HP's board approved a restructuring called the Fiscal 2026 Plan on November 25, 2025, and the company expects it to cut global headcount by approximately 4,000 to 6,000 employees b…
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NYC entry-level tech postings fell 49% since 2022, study finds
The Center for an Urban Future reported that entry-level job postings in computer and mathematical fields in New York City dropped 49% between 2022 and 2025, the largest decline ac…
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Oracle India layoffs: how many jobs are going, and did Oracle blame AI?
Oracle began cutting jobs in India on September 15, 2026, a day after the round opened in the United States, with product engineering teams bearing the brunt while support and cons…
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Oracle raises restructuring cost estimate to $2.8 billion, citing AI deployment and data center spending
Oracle disclosed in a regulatory filing that it is expanding its 2026 Restructuring Plan by roughly $700 million, lifting the total estimated cost to about $2.8 billion from a prio…
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Tech industry layoffs exceed 128,000 in 2026 as companies redirect spending toward AI
Technology companies including Oracle, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Uber have announced major workforce reductions totaling at least 128,536 job cuts globally through September 2026…
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Cognizant's 'Project Leap' to cut 12,000-15,000 jobs, 4-5% of staff, as it shifts to AI delivery
Cognizant has disclosed "Project Leap," a restructuring expected to eliminate 12,000-15,000 positions worldwide, roughly 4-5% of its workforce, with the reductions tied directly to…
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Wipro says AI now does the work of 20,000 employees, but it moved them to other roles instead of cutting jobs
Wipro's AI initiatives have raised productivity by the equivalent of 20,000 employees' output, chief technology officer Sandhya Arun told Reuters on September 10, 2026, and those e…
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Upwork cut about a quarter of its staff, with its CEO saying AI lets smaller teams do more
Upwork is laying off approximately a quarter of its workforce, chief executive Hayden Brown told employees on May 7, 2026, in a message the company published. She gave two reasons:…
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Meta planned for AI to take over thousands of people's daily work, then shelved its second layoff wave
Meta spent the first half of 2026 planning to hand much of its employees' daily work to AI agents, according to a Reuters special report built on internal documents, recordings and…
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Are AI layoffs shrinking tech employment? US tech jobs grew by 86,000 in the same month
Technology occupation employment in the US grew by about 86,000 workers in August, according to CompTIA's analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, while tech companies cut roug…
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Is AI a staff-cutting tool? IBM's own automation chief says using it that way is 'wrong'
Neel Sundaresan, IBM's general manager for automation and AI, told the Chosun Ilbo in Seoul that AI is 'not a tool for cutting staff but a tool for creating more value with the sam…
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What does an 'AI supercycle' cost? Nokia is cutting Bell Labs research from 681 people to 408
Nokia plans to cut Bell Labs research headcount from 681 in 2024 to 408 by the end of next year, a reduction of about 46%, and to shrink its dedicated research centres from 19 to s…
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Another AI layoff? Zscaler cuts 3% of staff, but its SEC filing says only 'reallocating resources'
Zscaler told the SEC on 3 September 2026 that it had committed two days earlier to a plan to 'reduce our worldwide headcount by approximately 3%', a cut of roughly 260 people again…
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AI job losses are concentrated among workers aged 22 to 25, Stanford payroll study finds
Stanford University researchers working with payroll processor ADP analyzed employment data through June 2026 and found no broad AI-driven job destruction across the economy - but …
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Will AI replace software engineers, or just leave them reviewing its code?
The Guardian interviewed more than a dozen software engineers in July 2026 about work that has shifted from writing code to reviewing what AI writes. The numbers around them are st…
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Were 1,600 Atlassian job cuts really an AI layoff? Its CEO answers no and yes in the same sentence
Atlassian announced on 11 March 2026 that it was cutting roughly 10% of its workforce, about 1,600 roles, in a note from co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes that the company fil…
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Did AI take 3,000 jobs at Intuit? The memo it filed with the SEC says something else
Intuit told the SEC on 20 May 2026 that it would reduce its full-time workforce by approximately 17%, about 3,000 roles against its last reported headcount of 18,200, and book $300…