#ailayoffs

So this was just a “let’s sell you on AI” meeting?
This spin is infuriating. Don’t pi-s on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
AI already took jobs. Just because they were taken first doesn’t mean AI didn’t replace them. In a way I guess it’s true because those who are still employed just have the additional burden of trying to get the job done - until AI can learn. But leadership will keep repeating that it’s not taking jobs. Maybe if we keep hearing it we will believe it?
And are we really bragging that 3 employees were “repurposed” so people start feeling safe?
Just stop. It’s insulting.

Here’s what you can start doing:
Be honest about what the vision is for this company and who has a true future with Canon. Give people the resources to develop marketable skills and move on if your long term plan does not include them. People have families to raise.

Looks like the US is heading into a collapse over the next decade with the relentless jobs being lost due to H1B visas Ofdshoeing and AI.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we see over 50% of white collar jobs completely gone over the next 5 years.

This is a real SHTF scenario and most people still have their heads up their as--s when it comes to this

Dan pushed ai on us all on monday then immediately moved to fire so many people on friday. Was there warning?

Where are these layoffs coming from?

Forced Ai training. And soon to be forced to use Ai. While my director and mangers openly joke and laugh about how Ai is so great and will eventually take will our jobs. Great morale boost while they actively talk about wanting to boost morale.

Economy is getting worst. Most companies are announcing cuts, Cisco is no different. Major LR announcements in work for next Cisco Q3 earnings on May 13. This would be drastic shift caused by AI disruptions. 15-20 percent across the company. Many Delivery centers to shut.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/crypto-com-layoffs-12percent-ai-job-loss.html

Scrutinize, double scrutinize and triple scrutinize each and every engineer, especially the dead wood at Grade 10 and above. Most of them are needless overheads and only serve to drag the company down.

This is the ERA of AI assisted development. Leverage AI and eliminate DEAD WOOD.

From my LinkedIn feed:

I used Claude Code to create a new HDL and vibe coded a compiler in a couple of weeks of my spare time. (Yeah very little left after a busy day at work ;-) ) Now I am very certain say 80% likelyhood we won’t need half of design or verification engineers in max two years from now. I think we’re going back to a full stack frontend engineer model again. For a medium complexity accelerator chip, you need 1 architect, <10 AI native frontend engineers (doing design, verification, synthesis, timing,) 2 verification/emulation specialists for integration testing. I don’t know enough physical design to predict there.

AI isn't working as well as Mike would like. I hear 2026/early 2027 layoffs are delayed by 6-12 months. Mike is not happy. 115m dollars is being deployed to consultants to "make it work".

Warehouse workers for Southern Glazer in Las Vegas were recently laid off. They claim artificial intelligence robots are replacing their positions. Around 50 of more than 100 warehouse staff were reportedly let go on March 8. The affected workers performed tasks like picking products and building pallets. Southern Glazer has not yet responded to requests for comment.

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/las-vegas-warehouse-workers-claim-ai-replaced-them/amp/

Isn’t it cool how the bank is training us in AI and encouraging us to try to automate some of our processes? No free lunches here. Every process you automate is one more step towards your own layoff. Even the things that aren’t successful highlight to the LLM what is important on the front line and what should get automated. Think you’re gonna get a nice bonus for alll that AI work you do? I have a Tuesday meeting set up for you. Don’t train your robot job destroyer .

Many companies are openly discussing AI's role in workforce reductions. MIT research indicates AI can already replace a significant portion of the US labor market. Several firms, including IBM and Wisetech, have directly cited AI for job cuts. IBM's CEO stated hundreds of human resources employees were replaced by AI. Wisetech announced 2,000 job cuts, attributing them to AI-led efficiency gains.

https://www.businessinsider.com/list-companies-replacing-human-employees-with-ai-layoffs-workforce-reductions

I've been through a few layoff cycles and I don't remember ever once an employee on a H1B visa or any other work visa getting let go. H1B visa holders are considered temporary workers. Why are full time employees let go before temporary employees? Soon all of Nike will be visa workers. The American dream is for everyone except Americans.

Leadership, not just here but across all companies, needs to realize that AI is not the answer, at least not in its current form. You can already see it breaking things all around us. Amazon is just one of the most recent examples. But they don't seem to care. They'll lay all of us off in the name of AI, only to watch everything start to crumble later.

It's coming - Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount | Reuters https://share.google/MVojTS4lM4QvvO5Ae

https://investinglive.com/stocks/oracle-layoffs-could-reach-45000-as-ai-replace-database-engineering-roles-job-loss-flood-20260312/amp/

https://gizmodo.com/oracle-will-downsize-its-product-teams-because-of-ai-2000732097

https://pub.towardsai.net/the-builders-notes-epic-oracle-and-cerner-are-blocking-healthcare-ai-here-s-the-proof-4cc17095f1dc

https://digital.va.gov/ehr-modernization/ehr-deployment-schedule/

https://telecareaware.com/breaking-oracle-health-loses-five-executives-sent-there-to-fix-cerner-report-and-what-is-it-telling-us/

https://docs.oracle.com/en/industries/health/health-patient-portal/pp-release-notes/known-issues.html

https://www.nextgov.com/modernization/2026/01/va-watchdog-lists-ehr-modernization-major-management-challenge/410919/

Nothing but a sinking ship being held together by the VA contract. They’re blocking 3rd-party APIs to force everyone onto the Clinical AI Agent, but the legacy code is so buggy (inbox column shifts, read-receipt failures) that clinicians are revolting. If you’re on the legacy maintenance side, the $2.1B RIF budget has your name on it. Management is literally counting your 'AI-generated PRs' to see if they can replace you with Code Assist."

Hearing pd claims and injury and all of p&c claims will be downsizing due to AI.

is whether AI agents implemented over the last 6 months will get laid off too? And in what order? Eg,

• Expensive US based employees first
• then EU
• offshore/outsourced workers next
• AI agents, once nobody else is left

Labor cost margin

https://fortune.com/2026/03/10/ceos-ai-labor-cost-margin-workforce/

Tech layoffs reached over 45,000 globally in early 2026. Approximately 20% of these reductions, totaling over 9,200 jobs, are linked to AI implementation. Block accounted for the largest single cut with 4,000 layoffs, driven by AI tool capabilities. Other companies like WiseTech Global, Livspace, eBay, and Pinterest also reduced staff due to AI strategies. Firms are restructuring operations around AI-driven workflows to boost efficiency and automate tasks.

https://technode.global/2026/03/09/2026-tech-layoffs-reach-45000-in-march-more-than-9200-due-to-ai-and-automation-rationalfx/

Reality check: Frontier AI only handles ~2.5% of real remote freelance jobs per the RLI study.
Paper: https://www.remotelabor.ai/paper.pdf
Video breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3kaLM8Oj4o
Nonstop AGI hype looks more like a convenient excuse for mass layoffs and cost-cutting than actual progress.

We know we're being replaced by actual people. As if it matters who or what takes my job. The outcome is the same - I'll be unemployed.

https://nypost.com/2026/03/07/business/wall-street-executives-say-morgan-stanleys-latest-layoffs-caused-by-ai-sources/

Story by bgriffiths@insider.com (Brent D. Griffiths)

Anthropic economists say they have developed a new way to track how AI will upend the workforce.
Their new measure shows that AI use hasn't come close to tapping the full power of large language models.
Not surprisingly, they say the most exposed field is computer programmers.
Anthropic economists say that AI use is far from reaching its full potential to disrupt the labor market.

Using their new measure, they found the five most exposed occupations to be: Computer programmers, customer service representatives, data entry keyers, medical record specialists, and market research analysts and marketing specialists.

AI has yet to significantly affect the unemployment rate for workers in these highly exposed professions, economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory wrote. The pair said there is "suggestive evidence" that the hiring of young workers in those fields has slowed.

Massenkoff and McCrory also wrote that there are a number of tasks and, in some cases, whole jobs that AI can't do, such as making legal arguments in a courtroom.

"Many tasks, of course, remain beyond AI's reach—from physical agricultural work like pruning trees and operating farm machinery to legal tasks like representing clients in court," the pair wrote.

The core of Massenkoff and McCrory's paper proposes a new way to measure AI displacement risk that combines real-world data on Claude usage with other factors, including tasks that are theoretically possible for AI.

Anthropic has been publishing real-world data on Claude usage for every state and Washington, DC, through their "Anthropic Economic Index."

By doing so, the pair said that they hope to pinpoint economic disruption more reliably in real time, making it easier to "help identify the most vulnerable jobs before displacement is visible."

"This approach won't capture every channel through which AI could reshape the labor market, but by laying this groundwork now, before meaningful effects have emerged, we hope future findings will more reliably identify economic disruption than post-hoc analyses," they wrote.

The measure, which they call Observed Exposure, shows just how far LLMs have to go to disrupt specific job tasks that AI could theoretically replace or augment.

"For instance, Claude currently covers just 33% of all tasks in the Computer & Math category," they wrote.

Dario Amodei has warned about the future of white-collar work
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has repeatedly sounded the alarm about AI job displacement. He has said that AI could replace up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years. Amodei has stuck by his views even as others in the industry, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, have questioned his outlook.

Massenkoff and McCrory's findings dovetail with a growing consensus that AI could eliminate most entry-level software engineering jobs. One of the biggest uses for Anthropic's Claude is coding.

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, recently said he expects the title of software engineer to start to "go away" in 2026.

xAI CEO Elon Musk said last year that "anything that is physically moving atoms" will outlast AI disruption longer. The Anthropic economists found that the least exposed professions include cooks, motorcycle mechanics, lifeguards, bartenders, and dishwashers

It is worth noting that sweeping predictions of AI job disruption haven't always aged well.

Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called "Godfather of AI," said in 2016 that "people should stop training radiologists now" and that within five years AI would surpass humans in the field. A decade later, radiologists remain in demand. Hinton told The New York Times in 2025 that his prediction was too broad and that the timing was off, even as he was correct about the direction of AI progress.

AI disruption also won't affect everyone the same way, the Anthropic economists wrote.

Based on US Census Bureau data from the three months before ChatGPT's release, the economists found that "Workers in the most exposed professions are more likely to be older, female, more educated, and higher-paid."

https://x.com/PeterMcCrory/status/2029716715916198006/photo/1

@PeterMcCrory
Head of Economics at Anthropic.

Any news of layoffs from AI taking over entry level roles?

What’s the deal with this new buzz around AI DLC? Anyone have some insight into what it actually is? Also curious how many more jobs or roles might be at risk because of it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/oracle-layoffs-to-impact-thousands-in-ai-cash-crunch

According to this news article for reasons. Yay or Nay?

https://dailyvoice.com/md/elkton/morgan-stanley-to-lay-off-thousands-of-employees-here-are-reasons-why/

Shifting Priorities: The bank is reallocating resources to high-growth areas.

Performance Reviews: Some layoffs are tied to individual job performance.

Operational Efficiency: The bank is managing costs amid economic pressures.

AI, Automation: Increased use of artificial intelligence is automating routine tasks, reducing the need for certain roles.

Welcome to the "AI-First" masterclass, where our CPO and his merry band of visionaries have finally cracked the code: why pay for actual human expertise when you can just sprinkle some AI dust on the office and hope for a miracle? In this brilliant new company math, one prompt-wielder is magically expected to do the work of four seasoned professionals. It’s not a "layoff," everyone—it’s AI-powered efficiency optimization. Of course, the performance ratings are pure comedy; it’s a truly impressive feat to make KPIs impossible to achieve by simply moving them every time someone gets close. It seems the only thing "scaling" around here is the leadership's delusion that deep product context and institutional knowledge are "legacy baggage" that can be replaced by a stochastic parrot that doesn't even understand the roadmap.

I’m sure they’ll have a fantastic realization right around the time the production server catches fire because the code checked in by an "elite" hire who doesn't know the internals couldn't scale, and the IIM Product Manager’s slide deck isn't enough to rescue the business. There won't be anyone left who remembers how the system actually talks to itself, but hey, at least the PowerPoint decks looked sleek, right? It is incredibly draining to watch a leadership team systematically dismantle the very infrastructure keeping the company afloat, like watching a captain celebrate "weight reduction" while tossing the lifeboats overboard.

By the way, there’s a fascinating trend where every new "Director and above" hire seems to share the same IIT (from India) pedigree, while any existing veteran—PM or Engineer—without those specific credentials is being ushered toward the exit via "carefully crafted" negative feedback and impossible goals. Yes there are a couple of hires who are not from here, but watch the broader trend. If it happened to one person, it’s an exception; when it happens across the board, it’s a blueprint for a lawsuit. What these visionaries don't realize is that the momentum for a class action is already building among those who’ve been pushed out. I’m just waiting for that legal spark to materialize so I can join in and sue the heck out of these "geniuses" for wrongful termination. I have every single Workday feedback and "Connect" saved to show exactly how the narrative suddenly shifted the moment the new regime walked in. See you in discovery.

It seems the rolling layoffs have no end in sight, who else thinks they’ll reference AI as a reason for downsizing this year?

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-layoffs-deflation-us-economy-job-market-outlook-citi-2026-2

Meetings are being held (in person and Zoom) to encourage and push branch offices to use co-pilot.

Whereas the HO witnessed this type of hype in their "new system processes," which later showed itself as a RIF, so too will the field. It may take a couple of years, but its coming.

NEW employee slogan: "Participate in your own demise at EJ" ....instead of:
"Together We Serve" which really means "together we serve ---> the ELT."

Dan was right with AI, employees will be replaced.

3 hours ago - Block Inc. announced a 40% workforce reduction to adapt to an AI-driven business model, triggering a 20-24% surge in its stock price.

I think many people do not get it - AI will impact many jobs for the simple reason that in the past 30 years we created lots of so-called bullsh-t jobs and many of you are doing them. And AI will ki-l those, but that is ok. Personal assistants, auditors, project managers, Excel monkeys, recruiters, HR, etc. to name a few - all will be gone soon.

I'm not sure that AI washing can really explain this at this point. Seems extreme. Will this be another klarna moment where they are calling people back in 3 months?

https://www.wsj.com/business/jack-dorseys-block-to-lay-off-4-000-employees-in-ai-remake-28f0d869

Jack Dorsey’s Block to Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce in AI Remake
Parent of Square and Cash App says intelligence tools have changed how to run a company

By Angel Au-Yeung
Feb. 26, 2026 5:04 pm ET

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square, at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention.
Jack Dorsey at a convention in Miami in 2021. Marco Bello/AFP/Getty Images
Block XYZ 4.99%increase; green up pointing triangle, the payments company founded by Jack Dorsey that includes Square and Cash App, said Thursday that it plans to lay off 40% of its workforce, or more than 4,000 employees.

Dorsey alluded to artificial-intelligence tools as the reason for the cuts in a letter to shareholders.

“The core thesis is simple,” wrote Dorsey. “Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company.”

The company said the plan would cost it $450 million to $500 million in expenses and severance. Shares rallied more than 20% in after-hours trading.

Big companies have already been laying off thousands of white collar workers over the past year, in some cases pointing to increased efficiency created by AI. Salesforce cut roughly 4,000 customer-support roles last year because of AI advancements. Pinterest, meanwhile, has said it is laying off nearly 15% of its workforce as part of a plan to focus more of the company’s resources on AI-related roles.

And the fear AI would shrink jobs and replace the functions of whole companies sparked a market rout earlier this week after a research report imaged a dystopian future for the U.S. economy.

Analysts and economists have pushed back against the scenarios laid out in the report, but Block’s drastic job cuts will likely stoke up those fears.

The company said most of the layoffs would occur in the first quarter of this year and be completed by the second quarter.

“I don’t think we’re early to this realization. I think most companies are late,” Dorsey wrote. “Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes.”

• Major firms announcing AI linked job cuts include Nike, Amazon, Meta, Dow, HP, Allianz, Telstra, WiseTech, Pinterest, Autodesk, MercadoLibre, SEB, British American Tobacco, and Agora.

• Goldman Sachs warns that accelerating AI adoption could raise US unemployment, estimating AI caused 5,000 to 10,000 monthly net job losses in highly exposed industries last year and accounted for 7% of planned layoffs in January.

• Companies across sectors including technology, finance, manufacturing, telecoms, and consumer goods are restructuring to prioritize AI, automation, and digital transformation.

• Workforce reductions range from hundreds to several thousand roles, with some companies cutting up to one third of staff as they redirect investment toward AI systems, cloud platforms, and efficiency programs.

• The trend signals a broader shift in corporate strategy, as businesses reallocate capital toward AI driven productivity gains, raising concerns among investors and economists about structural labor market disruption.

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/companies-cutting-jobs-investments-shift-toward-ai-2026-02-25/

Can’t wait for the first level apocalypse that’s surely coming this year.

The U.S. National debt is -

(Currently) $38.7 Trillion (and rising) per U.S. usdebtclock.

AI will take away (most) computer dependent jobs in the future (not all) but enough for the Unemployment rate to spike significantly thus reducing Tax revenue.

So Income Tax, and Corporate Tax will (need) to be Increased (especially) on Corporations, and the wealthy; to be able to cover it.

Reality is, even with the Trump Import tariffs that were nullified ($200.0 Billion a year with refunds of $125.0+ Billion in process back to Corporations-businesses) by the Supreme Court it wouldn't even faze the (current) $990.0 Billion (and rising) a year in Interest paid by U.S. taxpayers to outside Investors that finance the U.S. National debt.

These are the facts.