AI impact on other industries
Tracking AI-driven job losses and impacts in Other: 34 reports, 1,000 jobs affected in sourced events. Posted and discussed by the people affected.
Verified AI job losses in Other
| Date | Company | Jobs | What happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livspace | 1,000 | Layoff - Livspace cut 1,000 jobs, and the company says tasks that were manual are now handled by intelligent systems | People Matters | |
| Baker McKenzie | Layoff - Baker McKenzie is phasing out business services roles after a review that rethought its work "including through our use of AI" | Legal Cheek | ||
| Total | 1,000 | across 1 verified event | ||
Reports and discussion
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Baker McKenzie is phasing out business services roles after a review that rethought its work "including through our use of AI"
Baker McKenzie, one of the world's largest law firms, confirmed in February 2026 that it is likely to cut roles across its business services teams. A spokesperson set out the reaso…
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Bill Gates says many jobs will disappear forever, and proposes reserving some work for humans and taxing AI tokens and robots
Bill Gates published an essay on 26 August 2026 arguing that the world has no plan for the arrival of AI and needs one before unemployment rises sharply. He expects AI to take on w…
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Connecticut employers must now tell the state whether a mass layoff is related to AI, under a rule that took effect on 1 October
Since 1 October 2026, every employer that files a federal WARN notice with Connecticut's Labor Department has had a new question to answer. Section 26 of Public Act 26-15 says each…
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AI was the stated reason for 3,961 US job cuts in September, only the fifth-biggest cause, yet it still leads 2026 at 120,136
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the outplacement firm that counts announced US job cuts by the reason employers give, published its September report on 1 October 2026. Employers anno…
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Livspace cut 1,000 jobs, and the company says tasks that were manual are now handled by intelligent systems
Livspace, the Bengaluru-based home-interiors company backed by KKR, let go of about 1,000 employees, roughly 12 percent of its workforce, over the six months to February 2026, a co…
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California becomes the first state to make employers say when AI caused a mass layoff, and to put a human behind an AI firing
Governor Gavin Newsom signed two laws on 30 September 2026 that go to the centre of what this site tracks. Senate Bill 947 stops employers relying only on an automated decision sys…
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McKinsey: 11 million US workers may have to change occupation by 2035 as AI removes demand for 36 million jobs
The McKinsey Global Institute said in a report covered by CNN Business on 29 September 2026 that automation and artificial intelligence could push about 11 million American workers…
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Raimondo warns of mass AI job displacement without transition planning
Gina Raimondo, former Commerce Secretary now leading the nonprofit Raise Us, told CNBC she fears tens of millions of Americans could face unemployment or underemployment if AI adop…
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UK minister prepares contingency plan for potential AI-driven job disruption
AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the UK government is drawing up a contingency plan for possible severe job market disruption from artificial intelligence, despite no current evid…
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Why are workers more anxious than ever? Glassdoor finds mentions of AI in employee reviews up 164% in a year
Employee confidence in the US fell to a record low in September, the third new low this year, according to the Glassdoor Employee Confidence Index published on 28 September 2026. T…
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Is AI creating jobs or just clean-up work? A Bath professor says fixing AI's "almost right" output risks becoming underpaid piecework
Akhil Bhardwaj, associate professor of strategy and organisation at the University of Bath, writes in The Conversation (republished by the Jamaica Gleaner) that evidence so far sho…
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Disney legal chief tells under-1,000-person department it will be a 'much smaller organization' after automation review
In a September 18, 2026 memo to Disney's Legal and Global Affairs department, which has fewer than 1,000 staff worldwide, Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer Horacio Gutierrez w…
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51.7% of companies plan to cut junior hiring due to AI adoption
A survey of 51.7% of companies expect to reduce entry-level job opportunities as they implement artificial intelligence, according to the Digital Talent Barometer 2026 study presen…
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Women of color face steeper AI job displacement risk, Freedom Socialist Party argues
The Freedom Socialist Party published an analysis arguing that women, particularly women of color, face disproportionate job loss from AI automation. The argument rests on two fact…
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Kelly, Sanders and Casar propose competing bills to tax AI companies for worker relief
Sen. Mark Kelly introduced legislation requiring AI companies to fund a trust that would support workers threatened by the technology through job training, unemployment benefits an…
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What California's No Robo Bosses Act would actually require before an AI can get you fired
This site covered California's three AI employment bills on 16 September, when they went to Governor Newsom's desk. This is what one of them, Senate Bill 947, would actually do. Fr…
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Why can't companies stop cutting jobs for AI? A new model says each firm keeps the savings and hands the damage to its rivals
Two economists have put the argument that AI layoffs are self-defeating into a formal model. In a preprint posted to arXiv on 21 March 2026 and revised on 3 June, Brett Hemenway Fa…
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Pay surges for AI-skilled workers even as companies announce record layoffs
Jobs most exposed to artificial intelligence saw advertised wages rise 46% since 2021, according to Indeed data analysed by The Kobeissi Letter, compared with 25% growth for least-…
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When an algorithm makes the call at work, who do you complain to?
CNBC reported on 20 September 2026 that HR researchers have started asking who inside a company is supposed to handle a worker's complaint about an AI system. Darrell M. West of th…
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AI is now undergraduates' second-biggest worry, ahead of the climate crisis
Research published by the Global Undergraduate Awards on 18 September 2026 found that 55% of participating undergraduates named AI as a significant concern, up from 48% a year earl…
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We have had this argument before: the Council on Foreign Relations on AI and the globalization backlash
Michael Froman, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, argues in an essay published on 18 September 2026 that the public reaction to AI is following the shape of an older a…
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Will AI take jobs? 71% of Americans say yes - and 34 of 37 countries agree
Pew Research Center surveyed adults in 37 countries between February and May 2026. In 34 of them, more people expect AI to reduce the number of jobs than to create them over the ne…
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Worker anxiety about technology job losses reaches new high, outpacing actual displacement
Twenty-seven percent of U.S. workers now worry technology will make their jobs obsolete, up from 13% when Gallup first asked the question in 2017, according to a August survey of 1…
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Morgan Stanley economist: AI will hurt and help college-educated workers, with gains outweighing losses
Morgan Stanley economist Heather Berger argues that college-educated, high-income, urban workers face the most AI-driven job displacement but stand to gain the most from AI's econo…
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Are AI layoffs the whole story? Small firms that adopted AI grew headcount about 7% faster than those that did not
Gusto compared payroll records for 1,593 small businesses that adopted AI against 669 that were aware of it but had not, and found the adopters grew headcount about 7% more over th…
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How many jobs has AI actually cut? Morningstar puts it at a few hundred thousand, or 0.1% of US employment
Morningstar senior US economist Preston Caldwell estimates AI has subtracted no more than a few hundred thousand American jobs so far, around 0.1% of total US employment. White-col…
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California sends four workplace-AI bills to Newsom, including forced disclosure of AI-driven layoffs
California's legislature has sent four workplace-AI bills to Governor Gavin Newsom, who must act by September 30; if he does nothing, they become law without his signature. SB 951 …
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Companies that cut staff for AI are rehiring at a loss, research shows
Employers that cut staff to make way for AI are increasingly reversing course, according to research gathered by IBTimes UK. Forrester's Predictions 2026 report found 55% of employ…
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Did AI make work lighter? 52% say it added tasks, and 61% now do more than one job
Korn Ferry's Workforce 2026 Global Insights Report finds 62% of employees saying their workload has increased significantly over the past two years, with 44% stretched beyond their…
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AI layoffs, reversed: Gartner expects a third of AI-blamed job cuts to return by 2029
Gartner expects organizations to refill 30% of the positions eliminated in AI-related layoffs by 2029. VP analyst Tori Paulman told Computerworld that 30% is the average across com…