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A new California report examines artificial intelligence's impact on jobs. The study tracks employment trends since ChatGPT launched in late 2022. It suggests AI-related layoffs increased in parts of the Bay Area. AI creates new opportunities in some sectors. However, researchers note it also accelerates workplace changes and job displacement concerns.
https://www.wionews.com/videos/ai-job-shock-california-study-tracks-rising-layoffs-since-chatgpt-launch-1783012300163/amp
This has become a common theme. Everyday on LinkedIn, several folks with head full of thick black hair announce joining IBM. And then there are those with gray hair and thinning hair who publish the post about the departure.
A longtime software engineer reported being laid off from Bandcamp. He claimed most of the remaining engineers were also let go. This news has renewed concerns among artists and users about the platform's future. Bandcamp has a history of ownership changes and previous staff reductions. Artists rely on Bandcamp for direct music sales and fear platform instability.
https://www.tunefountain.com/bandcamp-engineering-layoffs/
The Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center will cut 96 jobs. Headquarters Hotel Mgmt, LLC operates the hotel. These layoffs are scheduled for October 1. State officials approved converting half the hotel to senior apartments. This plan uses state tax incentives.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
https://www.nj.com/business/2026/07/jersey-shore-hotel-to-cut-nearly-100-jobs-as-senior-housing-plan-moves-forward.html
HKS has announced staff reductions. Dozens of employees are affected by the layoffs. The firm cites a real estate industry slowdown. Tight lending standards are impacting new projects. Developers face challenges moving forward with construction.
Dallas, Texas
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2026/07/02/hks-layoffs-dan-noble.html
Several U.S. firms are rehiring employees previously replaced by AI. Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after AI-driven quality inspections led to numerous recalls. Klarna rehired customer service staff after customer satisfaction declined. IBM found its AI chatbot could not handle complex HR issues, leading to increased hiring. These companies discovered human expertise, empathy, and judgment remain vital for critical tasks.
https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/07/03/RM7ZI7K4ORGU7KTERUCAOLOAQM/
The US insurance sector continued to shed jobs through June. Revised figures for April and May showed further declines. This resulted in the single worst half-year in history for insurance job counts. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provided this data. Broker layoffs contributed to the overall job reduction.
https://www.intelligentinsurer.com/us-insurance-job-rout-deepens-as-broker-layoffs-join-the-count
Western New York experienced job reductions. More than 700 layoffs occurred in the second quarter. These cuts affected various industries. One specific industry accounted for the majority of these job losses.
https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2026/07/02/layoffs-jobs-western-new-york-second-quarter-q2.html
Lucid is replacing almost its entire executive team under new CEO Silvio Napoli. This leadership overhaul follows the struggling EV maker cutting 18% of its workforce. The company also recently withdrew its 2026 production guidance. New hires include a Chief Financial Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Customer Officer. Lucid is also creating a distinct business unit for robotaxis, AI, and advanced technologies.
Casa Grande, Arizona
https://electrek.co/2026/07/02/lucid-c-suite-overhaul-napoli/
Indus Technology is laying off 120 employees. These job cuts are occurring in Washington state. The affected roles include engineering technicians. Logisticians and electronics technicians are also impacted. The layoffs affect two Navy centers.
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2026/07/02/indus-technology-layoffs-warn-navy-nuwc-bangor.html
There's no need for a layoff when they are firing everyone everyday! Less than 200 North American frontline customer service agents and less than 100 MCO agents, once a upon a time there were thousands of agents and now everyone is being let go everyday due to a plan make it make sense! These are tenured agents 8 years etc of service and all of a sudden they cannot maintain metrics and that's not fishy? I would look into filing a formal complaint if you feel you have been discriminated against and let go. Sad times at Wayfair.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/genentech-layoffs-south-san-francisco-22330978.php
Yes, we are actually looking for CE for our customer in the South of England to maintain IBM legacy equipment. So if you have been recently laid off or are about to be, let me know.
I’d like to get everyone’s thoughts on Wells Fargo leaders that are taking over in technology. Starting with Steve Hagerman down as old BB&T and SunTrust leaders are pushed out they’re being replaced by folks from Wells Fargo. They keep hiring their friends from Wells for HUGE money and most of them are getting exceptions to work remotely even they are enforcing the policy that all new hires need to be in a Truist office. They seem quite toxic leading by fear and are turning our culture into the terrible culture they created and left behind at Wells.
That's 100% the only reason why I'm still here.
These are not layoffs. They are mass firings of low talent hangers-on or irrelevant departmental deadweight that pretty much needed to go and probably wont be missed. Like MD or AR, or your coworker who never quite got it. Why does CDW do it this way? Because our power-hungry CWS department has both ears of our lawyer CEO who is terrified of lawsuits. They won’t let managers fire people along the way that are incompetent, underperforming or bad cultural fits, so the business becomes filled with dead weight and weakened operationally, and bad people are pushed around to different teams or ignored. And it causes the business to run like cr-p. Then every year or 18 months there needs to be a house cleaning. It’s true and it’s really a pi-s-poor way to run talent in a talent-dependent business. Oh, and think you want to go to a PE owned company like Presidio or similar? Good luck. If you are weak, slow or ignorant, they will cut you faster than you can say “at will employment” and its why they are always hiring. They also rate leaders on how fast they can get rid of bad people. But that approach has an ironic “intended” consequence: Minimal layoffs, and true destination workplace because the talent is top notch. The type of people you want to work with. The thing is, at CDW, we did lose some dolphins in the layoff tuna net who were never managed correctly, but that is the very rare exception. There are also some great people at CDW, but this will never be a talent magnet because of how talent is managed. LCD.
Sounds like there has been rolling layoffs through some depts over the last week or two, and we all remember what happened in the week following the 4th in 2024.
I don't know what next week holds, but don't forget what we've all done for this company over the years. If layoffs come next week, remember that it's not a reflection on you. Layoffs are a failure of senior leadership and strategy, not the employee base doing the day-to-day work.
Enjoy your weekend, CUSA team! I hope the beer is cold, the grills are hot, the A/C is powerful, and the explosives safe and hilarious! I look forward to lambasting senior leadership next week if talented people lose their jobs to the Ai fantasy and vendor pool. (If it's any consolation, I used a hoard of Canon's Ai tokens on pointless nonsense today because I could and we were told to use Gemini, right? LOL)
Have a good weekend Canon team.
Just layed off 42 people in Columbus more to come
I was laid off in Nov on the Print US side along side many others. And now I am seeing people in the UK print division being laid off...
CDW let go of roughly 750 employees, with zero prior notice. I know that many are not getting 60 days of pay.
Is this a violation of the WARN Act? Or is there some loophole related to remote work and multiple offices that CDW is able to use as a defense?
Anyone hearing anything?
Opening a thread to provide insights to those who have been impacted by the latest RIF at CDW. By now, we should have received our severance packages and the clock has begun for the review. Very clearly in the documentation, it states "you have been advised in writing to seek legal counsel concerning the terms of this General Release before signing it and have had ample time to do so...".
Has anyone been able to seek legal counsel? What is the general feedback from counsel on the General Release and any other terms of the separation?
RIFs underway for McKesson Pharmacy Systems (EnterpriseRx), particularly in engineering. Most engineering to be outsourced overseas.
Dells market cap will be cut in half in the coming weeks. Nobody needs Dell anymore, take your energy polluting products to Mars
Hughes is bleeding people right now. Management bet that AI and industry layoffs would give them the upper hand, but the draconian policies are backfiring and the job market seems to be better than what people expected. And at this point, it doesn't seem like Charlie or Hamid care even.
There’s no better way to celebrate independence than at Verizon, a great American country that has granted independence to thousands of employees! From our former CEO, former President of Consumer Group, former CHRO, former Chief Communications officer, former President of GN&T, 2 former Presidents of VGS, 5k VSP takers, and 13k and counting riffed Vteamers - there’s no shortage of independence from Verizon to celebrate. We are a winning team, and I’m honored to follow such great leadership that powers and empowers the way we work, live and play as we play to win. Simple matters! Better matters! And we are truly the best. The results speak for themselves. Verizon is the very best of America. Proud to be VZ!
Why is that whenever I search for Randal Stephenson he has an ear to ear grin? He has a very big smile and laugh for someone who cost the company over $100 billion. Maybe he lives a very comfortable life after making nearly millions in executive compensation. It makes me just sick inside whenever I see a picture of him. I don’t mind the massive business blunders but just don’t be walking around with the cheekiest grin.
What is the point of keeping SVP+ ICs in high cost locations while full teams are being laid off ?
What is their exact contribution?
I think it's very possible that more people applied than what they anticipated.
imagine if the target was 8,000 eliminations and they received 12,000 applications... but of those 12,000 applications, only 3,000 were on the elimination list. they still need to cut the 5,000... so what do they do? maybe accept 1,000 of the VSPs and still have to cut 4,000...
now for those 8,000 VSP applications they have to reject? that's a LOT of pi---d off people who will probably be looking to leave. now they have to figure out how to retain those employees.
and for those 4,000 being cut... they will be upset too.
that is probably the clusterf*ck they have gotten themselves into.
July is about to be a headache for everyone.
The plan made by the leadership is insane. In the name of outsourcing to India, VZ is cutting jobs and restructuring work among the existing employees. In India, we have only a very, very limited number of team members, and even among them, many employees have been let go.
In order to protect my investment, I would prefer to see the decision makers replaced, than the workers, who deliver the revenue. I can get into debt myself, I don't need their help. I want them to report revenue!
It’s not what’s for dinner…... Shake up the company and bake the books. Still waiting for growth mode
Has anyone who was not a leader (band 5 or higher), actually been let go? I only know of leaders getting cut today - seems like the 16th will be for everyone else.
Next round of RIF this month, it will be huge impacting all big locations
it feels like we're being gaslit... as if we didn't hear what leadership said and read the program information and FAQs. I pulled the receipts.
quotes from Sarah's 6/15 Calling:
"we are sitting here today as a result of policy changes and market changes, program changes and strategic business decisions that we have made."
"when our membership shifts, we need to shift our organization accordingly. In plain terms, what that means is there will be CenTeamers who are impacted by some of the restructuring that we need to undertake in the near term."
"[The Voluntary Separation Program] is something that our people team has worked incredibly hard on... we felt it was really important in this moment as we were embarking on this restructuring, to give CenTeamers who, for whatever reason, may be ready to move on to their next chapter, or to continue to pursue our mission in a different way somewhere else, the ability to raise their hand and do that with some enhanced benefits."
"there will be a wave of restructuring, our goal is to notify any of the impacted CenTeamers by early August."
"my commitment to you as we go through these changes, both in the near term and whatever change comes as a part of Mission Simplify, is to be as transparent as possible."
Tanya's 6/15 Email:
"Today, we are announcing a Voluntary Separation Program (VSP) to provide a pathway for those employees who are ready to start their next chapter, as well as the hard news that following the VSP, some members of the CenTeam will be impacted by a wave of restructuring."
"the VSP is designed to provide eligible team members with choice."
Employee FAQs:
A1 What is the Voluntary Separation Program?
The Voluntary Separation Program is a program that provides eligible employees with the opportunity to apply to voluntarily leave Centene with some enhanced benefits.
A2 Why is Centene offering the VSP? And why now?
We have a responsibility to our customers and members to constantly evaluate whether we can deliver better outcomes more efficiently. At the same time, when our membership base shifts - whether because of policy changes or strategic business decisions - we must adjust our organization to match that membership. Combined, these factors mean we are entering a period of both reimagining and restructuring. So we are offering the VSP as part of our efforts to right-size our workforce.
A3 Will there also be job eliminations as part of an involuntary program?
Centene is offering the VSP now to proactively manage changes in the business while being transparent, remaining true to our culture and providing team members a voluntary option first, before considering other actions. Following the VSP, we do expect that we will need to make further restructuring decisions, and we will expect to notify anyone whose role is impacted by early August.
Tanya's 7/1 Email:
"The Voluntary Separation Program is an opportunity for those employees who were already considering an exit from Centene for personal or professional reasons to do so with some enhanced benefits."
"We strongly suggest that you apply for the VSP only if you want to leave Centene."
in essence, they said what they said... we heard what they said, we listened to what they said... we are not d-mb. we know that MCR/MCD/MKT health insurance is going through a major change. we know the economy is not looking all that great...
so we were supposed to risk being cut with less money? we have seen people post on here that they received significantly less severance. we have families to feed, we need to keep a roof over our heads!! I have been with the organization for years, believe in our mission and planned to stay for many more years, but this is ridiculous...
Union members at United Videogame Workers-CWA established the Game Worker Hardship Fund. This fund provides financial support to game developers impacted by layoffs. It assists workers across the United States and Canada. Eligible applicants can request up to $5,000 for basic life expenses. The fund is financed by membership dues and an itch.io charity bundle.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/union-workers-establish-hardship-fund-to-support-devs-impacted-by-layoffs
Has anyone been removed from their team and put on temporary assignment with no team or supervisor to report to since the VSP came out? Curious if people that have were already slated to be cut loose. Seems odd they would restructure before the VSPs are approved or denied.