The Research · Dossier 03 · Updated 2026-06

The Layoff Index.

The job apocalypse they say isn't happening.

Every public AI-attributed job cut in 2025–2026 — searchable, sortable, sourced. The headcount the walkbacks leave out.

113,000+ Workers Displaced · 2026 YTD
179 Companies Cutting
22 Major Cuts Documented
82% Named AI Out Loud

"Nobody's losing their job to AI" is a sentence with a headcount attached. This is the headcount.

The same executives who tell a camera the disruption is overstated tell an earnings call something else. Benioff: "We will hire no more software engineers in 2026." Dimon: "We have displaced people because of AI." Winters: AI will replace "lower-value human capital." The index files those quotes next to the number of people they describe.

Every row is a public cut — earnings call, SEC filing, press release, or WARN Act notice. We tag each by how openly AI was named: explicit when they said it out loud, implied when AI sat in the same paragraph as the cut, restructuring when the euphemism did the work. Search it. Sort it. Find the ones that lied to you with a straight face.

  • Explicit They named AI as the reason. On the record, on a call, in a filing. No translation needed.
  • Implied AI investment cited in the same breath as the cut. The connection left for you to make.
  • Restructuring "Efficiency." "Streamlining." "Right-sizing." The euphemism doing the work AI won't be blamed for.

Sources & Method

Macro totals (113,000+ displaced across 179 companies, 2026 year-to-date) tracked via Layoffs.fyi. The indexed rows below are the major documented cuts where AI was named on the record — drawn from company earnings calls, SEC filings, official press releases, and WARN Act notices. Each row's attribution tag (explicit / implied / restructuring) reflects how openly AI was cited in the primary source, not our interpretation of intent. Every headcount and aggregate in the app is computed from the underlying rows, so the math is always internally consistent. This index tracks what was said out loud; undisclosed and un-backfilled cuts are, by definition, uncounted. Last full pass: 2026-06. Updated as cuts are documented.

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