A curated record of mass layoffs in the technology sector from 2023 onwards, cataloguing headcount reductions at major firms alongside UK government estimates that AI automation may displace 10–30% of existing jobs. The tracker contextualises how AI adoption—particularly large language models and agentic AI—is accelerating workforce restructuring across white-collar roles.
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Most threatened roles
- UK dept of education 10-30% can be automated away.
Mass Layoff tracker
- 2023
- Recent layoffs at Microsoft (10,000 jobs or 5 percent of the workforce),
- Amazon (18,000 jobs / 6 percent)
- Meta (11,000 / 13 percent).
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- 2024 so far
- PayPal cuts 9% of workforce
- UPS cuts +12,000 roles
- Microsoft cuts +1,900 roles
- Twitch cuts 35% of workforce
- Unity Software 25%
- Brex 20%
- Discord 17%
- Wayfair 13%
- Riot Games 11%
- Duolingo 10%
- Rent the Runway 10%
- eBay 9%
- Blackrock 3%
- Citigroug cuts 20,000 roles
- Google cuts +1,000
- Amazon cuts several hundred roles