The Tel Aviv-based work management platform monday.com, famous for its vibrant customizable boards used in project tracking, recently became another tech firm to reference AI when announcing staff reductions. On Wednesday the company disclosed in an SEC filing that it plans to cut roughly 20 percent of its employees, totaling just over 600 positions, through a restructuring plan connected to updates in product, marketing and go-to-market approaches aimed at creating a leaner operating model while advancing its AI-driven expansion efforts.

Co-founder Eran Zinman informed staff via a LinkedIn note that the decision was not intended to cut expenses or substitute workers with AI but rather to align the organization with an AI-first direction introduced about a year earlier during a platform rebrand. monday.com, which maintains two U.S. offices, anticipates 45 million to 55 million dollars in net restructuring charges yet still forecasts up to 20 percent year-over-year revenue growth for 2026.

According to recent Financial Times analysis U.S. tech companies have eliminated nearly 140000 positions since the beginning of this year with Amazon Oracle Meta and Microsoft responsible for almost 50000 of those reductions while directing hundreds of billions into AI data center construction. The FT also noted that firms referencing AI in layoff announcements have trailed the Nasdaq by nearly 10 percent in the 30 trading days after their disclosures indicating the market may not fully accept the explanations provided.

The situation shows some positive aspects as well. The FT highlights that AI-centric organizations such as Anthropic and OpenAI are expanding quickly and taking in some of the talent released from other parts of the sector. Within certain companies implementing reductions headcount is being redistributed rather than eliminated. Meta for example shifted around 7000 employees into new AI-oriented positions earlier this year even while cutting 8000 others and IBM reports tripling entry-level hiring for AI and hybrid-cloud positions alongside its recent reductions.

Here is an ongoing review - in reverse chronological order - of larger tech companies that have disclosed major layoffs this year with AI noted as a contributing element.

Microsoft - July 9 2026. Microsoft eliminated approximately 4800 positions or 2.1 percent of its global workforce primarily within its Xbox gaming division resetting the unit only three years after acquiring Activision Blizzard for 75 billion dollars according to the FT. It also provided buyouts framed as voluntary separations without specifying the number of employees affected. The company indicated the position eliminations were not being replaced by AI yet recognized that AI is altering how work is performed. CFO Amy Hood noted that overall headcount decreased year-over-year in fiscal Q3 and is projected to continue declining as the firm emphasizes building high-performing teams that function with speed and flexibility amid growing AI investments.

Oracle - June 22 2026. Oracle revealed in late June that it had decreased its workforce by 21000 employees over the prior 12 months representing a 13 percent reduction meaning more cuts than previously reported including those tied to AI. The adoption and rollout of AI technologies throughout operations have led and may continue to lead to workforce reductions the company stated in an annual financial regulatory filing.

GitLab - June 3 2026. GitLab reduced its staff by about 350 workers or 14 percent to support AI infrastructure investments and manage increased traffic from AI processes. CEO Bill Staples noted that agentic workloads are straining competitors and that the company had started a generational rebuild of its core infrastructure to handle what he described as 100x growth needs. GitLab is withdrawing from 22 countries reducing management layers and collaborating with an unspecified AI lab to update its platform for agent-scale demands. The company reported first-quarter revenue of 264 million dollars up 23 percent year-over-year and expects to incur 30 to 35 million dollars in restructuring costs.

Google - ongoing through May. Alphabet's Google has quietly reduced employees across its Cloud division including its Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant-linked cybersecurity staff even as Cloud revenue increased 63 percent to surpass 20 billion dollars for the first time and its backlog nearly doubled to over 460 billion dollars. Over the past year Google has reduced managers overseeing small teams by more than a third with 35 percent fewer managers having fewer direct reports. Unlike most firms on this list Google has not announced a single overall figure with reductions occurring through ongoing performance reviews a voluntary buyout program and structural changes with external estimates placing the 2026 total between 1500 and 3000-plus engineers.

Intuit - May 20 2026. Intuit revealed plans to eliminate about 3000 positions or 17 percent of its total workforce in a restructuring focused on decreasing complexity and shifting resources toward AI. CEO Sasan Goodarzi reportedly informed staff that the company is simplifying its structure to improve product delivery.

Meta - May 20-21 2026. Meta cut approximately 8000 employees or 10 percent of its workforce while shifting about 7000 staff into new AI-focused roles that they reportedly dislike. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff the reductions were required because success is not assured in AI.

Cisco - May 14 2026. Cisco announced it is reducing nearly 4000 jobs or 5 percent of its workforce despite reporting stronger-than-expected profit and revenue. CFO Mark Patterson stated this was not a savings-driven restructure but rather about realigning resources around silicon optics security and AI.

Cloudflare - May 7-8 2026. Cloudflare reduced about 20 percent of its workforce equaling 1100 people while reporting quarterly revenue of 639.8 million dollars up 34 percent year-over-year and marking the highest single quarter in company history. CEO Matthew Prince noted that the vast majority of those laid off last week were measurers including middle management finance legal internal auditing and revenue recognition.

General Motors - May 12 2026. GM eliminated 500 to 600 positions mostly in IT roles in Austin Texas and Warren Michigan stating it was reassessing workforce needs amid uncertain market conditions. A person familiar with the cuts told CNBC that AI played a role in the decision though it was not the sole factor. GM's statement indicated it was transforming its Information Technology organization to better position the company for the future. Despite the reductions the company still had roughly 80 open IT positions including roles in AI motorsports and autonomous vehicles.

Coinbase - May 5 2026. The crypto exchange announced it was cutting about 700 employees or 14 percent of its staff as part of a restructuring aimed at addressing market volatility and boosting AI efficiency. The company reduced its organizational structure to five layers below the CEO and COO and said it would test one-person teams combining engineering design and product roles. CEO Brian Armstrong wrote that AI had altered the pace of work dramatically with engineers using AI to complete in days what previously took a team weeks and that the company needed to apply AI across every aspect of its operations.

PayPal - May 5 2026. PayPal announced plans to reduce around 20 percent of its workforce over the next two to three years exceeding 4500 jobs as part of a turnaround strategy focused on AI adoption and organizational simplification. CEO Enrique Lores told investors the company would aggressively adopt AI in its development processes and created a new AI transformation and simplification team reporting directly to him tasked with redesigning the company's processes function by function. Lores described the cuts as removing organizational layers and said AI would extend well beyond coding into customer service support operations and risk management.

Microsoft - April-May 2026. Microsoft offered buyouts structured as voluntary separations without disclosing how many employees these would impact. CFO Amy Hood said total headcount declined year-over-year in fiscal Q3 and is expected to keep declining as the company focuses on building high-performing teams that operate with pace and agility amid rising AI investment.

Snap - April 16 2026. Snap reduced roughly 16 percent of its global workforce about 1000 full-time employees and closed more than 300 open roles with CEO Evan Spiegel citing AI advancements as a key driver. Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence enable our teams to reduce repetitive work increase velocity and better support our community partners and advertisers Spiegel wrote in a memo filed with the SEC. The company said it had already seen small squads using AI tools to drive progress across Snapchat+ ad platform performance and infrastructure efficiency.

IBM - rolling through 2026. Between Q4 2025 cuts and April 2026 Red Hat engineering reductions estimates range from 3000 to 9000 U.S. positions eliminated bringing IBM's cumulative total since September 2024 above 15000. Bloomberg reported IBM plans to triple its U.S. entry-level hiring for AI and hybrid-cloud roles even as roughly 200 HR positions were replaced by AI agents. An IBM spokesperson described the Q4 2025 round as a routine rebalancing affecting a low single-digit percentage of its global workforce.

Atlassian - March 11 2026. Atlassian cut about 1600 jobs or 10 percent of its workforce to rebalance toward AI and enterprise sales even as shares rose nearly 2 percent on the news. CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said our approach is not AI replaces people but it would be disingenuous to pretend AI does not change the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas. It does.

Dell - January 30 though disclosed in March 2026. Dell's total workforce fell about 10 percent in fiscal 2026 roughly 11000 jobs to about 97000 employees from 108000 a year earlier with 569 million dollars spent on severance. The cuts came as Dell projected its AI-optimized server revenue could double in fiscal 2027.

Oracle - March 5-31 2026. As noted above Oracle began informing employees it would be cutting thousands of jobs via terminal emails. The cuts came even as Oracle posted 3.7 billion dollars in quarterly net income up 27 percent year-over-year with remaining performance obligations up 325 percent to 553 billion dollars with savings redirected toward AI data centers. The cuts that would later total 21000 over 12 months as Oracle disclosed in its June 22 annual filing.

Block - February 26-27 2026. Jack Dorsey's Block cut 4000 jobs nearly half its workforce down to under 6000 from over 10000. Dorsey wrote on X we are already seeing that the intelligence tools we are creating and using paired with smaller and flatter teams are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. He added I think most companies are late. Within the next year I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes.

Salesforce - February 10 2026. Salesforce laid off fewer than 1000 employees across marketing product management data analytics and its Agentforce AI unit. The company told Fortune because of the benefits and efficiencies of Agentforce we have seen the number of support cases we handle decline and we no longer need to actively backfill support engineer roles. This followed an earlier cut of about 4000 customer-support roles shrinking that team from roughly 9000 to 5000 with CEO Marc Benioff saying the company needed less heads because AI agents handle the work.

Amazon - January 28 2026. Amazon cut 16000 corporate jobs following 14000 cuts in October 2025 about 9 percent of its corporate workforce in three months. The company said it was part of strengthening our organization by reducing layers increasing ownership and removing bureaucracy. CEO Andy Jassy had said in June 2025 that as we roll out more generative AI and agents it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today in the next few years we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.