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Executive outplacement and coaching firm whose monthly reports on US job cuts and hiring plans are a widely cited labor-market indicator.
Center for AI Safety's Wage Loss Dashboard attributes just over 117,000 US job cuts this year to AI, or about $8.5 billion in annual wages. The total is an estimate and the state figures are modeled, so it suits rough sizing.
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Almost half of US employees surveyed by Visier said they have exaggerated how much they use AI or how expert they are with it. Visier links it to mandates and peer comparison, so leaders who gauge adoption from staff reports are partly counting a performance.
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US employers added 29,000 jobs in September while the Bureau of Labor Statistics cut 60,000 from its July and August counts. With layoffs still falling, the data describe a hiring freeze that argues for slowing headcount plans and holding cuts in reserve.
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Disney is cutting about 300 jobs, mostly in HR and tech, according to CNBC's source, in the third round of layoffs since Josh D'Amaro became CEO in March. The cost programme has now reached the HR staff who administer it. The wider jobs data does not yet show other employers doing the same.
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US tech layoffs hit 94,046 through August, up 16.8% on 2025, with May's 31,513 cuts accounting for more than twice that increase. Big employers set the monthly count, so the summer's 16.2% decline tracks their announcement calendars.
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Amazon is recruiting laid-off staff again and Deel says its boomerang hires have doubled. In the national data, returners went from 3.1% to 3.4% of US new hires over two years. The measured reversal is 0.3 percentage points.
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CBRE's 2026 report splits raw headcount from weighted quality, and the space between the two numbers is where hiring managers can actually act.
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Repeated layoffs have made brand-name employers look risky to workers whose jobs hold their immigration status. Two engineers told Business Insider they left Amazon and Oracle for firms they judged steadier.
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