微软周一表示,已裁减约 4800 个岗位,占其全球员工总数的 2.1%,这加剧了科技界因人工智能相关因素而引发的一系列裁员潮。该公司表示,被裁撤的岗位“并非由人工智能取代”,但也承认“人工智能正在改变工作的完成方式”,并正在自动化许多日常任务。
这些裁员延续了科技行业许多人眼中如同流行病般的现象:公司在报告创纪录营收的同时裁减员工,并将人工智能既视为增长引擎,也作为裁员理由。根据再就业服务机构 Challenger, Gray & Christmas 的数据,5 月份科技行业裁员人数创下多年来的单月最高纪录,而人工智能是被提及最多的原因。据自 2020 年起追踪行业裁员的监测网站 Layoffs.fyi 统计,2026 年迄今已有约 12 万个科技岗位被裁撤。
我们最近撰文探讨了为何企业或许需要重新思考这一理由,尤其是因为对其中许多公司而言,它们现在裁撤的团队正是在疫情期间招聘热潮中急剧膨胀的,这引发了关于当前真正状况的疑问。以下按时间倒序持续更新,列出今年已宣布大规模裁员且明确提及人工智能因素的各大科技公司。
甲骨文——2026 年 6 月 22 日。甲骨文在 6 月下旬披露,过去 12 个月内已裁减 21000 名员工,降幅达 13%,这意味着裁员规模比此前已知的更大,其中部分原因与人工智能有关。该公司在一份年度财务监管文件中表示:“在我们各项业务中采用和部署人工智能技术,已经导致并可能继续导致我们员工队伍的缩减。”
GitLab——2026年6月3日。GitLab 裁减了约 350 名员工,约占其员工总数的 14%,以筹集资金用于 AI 基础设施投资,并应对来自 AI 工作流激增的流量。CEO Bill Staples 表示,智能体工作负载正在“将竞争对手推向悬崖边缘”,公司已开始对其核心基础设施进行“代际重建”,以支撑他所说的百倍增长需求。GitLab 正在退出 22 个国家,精简管理层级,并与一家未具名的 AI 实验室合作,为其智能体规模的工作负载重建平台。该公司报告第一季度营收为 2.64 亿美元,同比增长 23%,预计将产生 3000 万至 3500 万美元的重组成本。
谷歌——持续至 5 月。Alphabet 旗下的谷歌已在其云部门悄然裁员,涉及威胁情报组及与 Mandiant 相关的网络安全员工,尽管云业务营收增长 63%,首次突破 200 亿美元,且积压订单几乎翻倍,超过 4600 亿美元。过去一年中,谷歌裁减了超过三分之一管理小团队的经理——直接下属较少的经理数量减少了 35%。与榜单上大多数公司不同,谷歌从未公布过单一的总裁员数字——这些裁员是通过滚动绩效评估流程、自愿买断计划以及结构性重组进行的,外部估计 2026 年裁员总数在 1500 至 3000 多名工程师之间。
Intuit——2026年5月20日。Intuit 宣布计划裁减约 3000 个岗位——约占其员工总数的 17%——作为一次以降低复杂性和向 AI 重新分配资源为核心的重组。据报道,CEO Sasan Goodarzi 告诉员工,公司正在降低复杂性并简化结构,以便能交付更好的产品。
Meta——2026年5月20日至21日。Meta 裁减了约 8000 名员工,约占其员工总数的 10%,同时将约 7000 名员工调至新的 AI 重点岗位(据报道他们对此并不满意)。CEO Mark Zuckerberg 告诉员工,这些裁员是必要的,因为在 AI 领域“成功并非理所当然”。
思科——2026年5月14日。思科宣布裁员近4000人,约占其员工总数的5%,尽管其公布的利润和营收均好于预期。首席财务官马克·帕特森表示:“这实际上并非出于节省成本的架构调整……更多是为了围绕芯片、光学、安全和AI领域重新配置资源。”
Cloudflare——2026年5月7日至8日。Cloudflare裁员约20%(1100人),其公布的季度营收为6.398亿美元,同比增长34%,创下公司历史上单季最高纪录。首席执行官马修·普林斯写道,“上周我们裁掉的绝大多数人是‘衡量者’”——即中层管理、财务、法务、内部审计和收入确认岗位。
通用汽车——2026年5月12日。通用汽车裁减了500至600个岗位,主要涉及得克萨斯州奥斯汀和密歇根州沃伦的IT职位,并表示正在市场环境不确定的情况下重新评估其人力需求。一位知情人士向CNBC透露,AI在此次裁员决策中起到了一定作用,但并非唯一原因。通用汽车在声明中表示,公司正在“对其信息技术组织进行转型,以使公司更好地为未来做好准备”。尽管进行了裁员,该公司仍有大约80个IT职位空缺,包括AI、赛车运动和自动驾驶汽车领域的岗位。
Coinbase——2026年5月5日。这家加密货币交易所表示,将裁员约700人,占其员工总数的14%,这是旨在应对市场波动并提升AI效率的重组计划的一部分。该公司将组织架构扁平化,在首席执行官和首席运营官之下仅设五个层级,并表示将尝试“一人团队”模式,将工程、设计和产品角色合并。首席执行官布莱恩·阿姆斯特朗写道,AI极大地改变了工作节奏——“工程师利用AI,能在几天内完成过去需要一个团队数周才能交付的工作”——并且公司需要“在我们工作的方方面面充分利用AI”。
PayPal — 2026年5月5日。PayPal宣布计划在未来两到三年内裁减约20%的员工——超过4500个岗位——作为以AI应用和组织精简为核心的转型战略的一部分。CEO恩里克·洛雷斯告诉投资者,公司将在其开发流程中“积极采用AI”,并组建了一个直接向他汇报的新的“AI转型与精简”团队,负责“逐个职能”地重新设计公司流程。洛雷斯将裁员解释为去除组织层级,并表示AI将远远超越编码领域,扩展到客户服务、支持运营和风险管理。
微软 — 2026年4月至5月。微软提供了以自愿离职形式组织的买断方案,但未披露这将影响多少员工。CFO艾米·胡德表示,第三财季员工总数同比下降,并且随着公司在AI投资不断增加的情况下专注于“打造以速度和敏捷性运作的高绩效团队”,预计员工总数将继续下降。
Snap — 2026年4月16日。Snap裁减了其全球约16%的员工——约1000名全职员工——并取消了超过300个空缺职位,CEO埃文·斯皮格尔将AI的进步列为主要驱动因素。“人工智能的快速进步使我们的团队能够减少重复性工作,提高速度,并更好地支持我们的社区、合作伙伴和广告商,”斯皮格尔在一份提交给美国证券交易委员会的备忘录中写道。该公司表示,已经看到小型团队利用AI工具推动Snapchat+、广告平台性能和基础设施效率方面的进展。
IBM — 贯穿2026年。结合2025年第四季度的裁员和2026年4月Red Hat工程部门的裁员,估计在美国削减的职位数量在3000到9000个之间,使IBM自2024年9月以来的累计裁员总数超过15000人。彭博社报道称,IBM计划将其美国AI和混合云岗位的初级招聘人数增加两倍,尽管大约200个人力资源职位已被AI智能体取代。一位IBM发言人将2025年第四季度的裁员描述为一次常规的再平衡,影响了其全球员工中“低个位数百分比”的人员。
Atlassian — 2026年3月11日。Atlassian裁员约1600人(占员工总数的10%),以“重新平衡”资源向AI和企业销售倾斜,尽管消息公布后股价上涨近2%。CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes表示:“我们的做法并非‘AI取代人类’。但假装AI不会改变我们所需技能的构成,或某些岗位所需的人数,那是不诚实的。它确实会改变。”
Dell — 1月30日(但于2026年3月披露)。Dell在2026财年员工总数减少约10%——约11000个岗位——从一年前的108000人降至约97000人,遣散费支出为5.69亿美元。裁员之际,Dell预计其AI优化服务器收入在2027财年可能翻倍。
Oracle — 2026年3月5日至31日。如上所述,Oracle开始通过终端邮件告知员工,将裁员数千人。裁员之际,Oracle公布的季度净利润为37亿美元,同比增长27%,剩余履约义务增长325%至5530亿美元——节省的资金被重新投入AI数据中心。正如Oracle在6月22日的年度文件中披露,这些裁员将在12个月内累计达到21000人。
Block — 2026年2月26日至27日。Jack Dorsey的Block裁员4000人——几乎占员工总数的一半,从超过10000人降至不足6000人。Dorsey在X上写道:“我们已经看到,我们正在创建和使用的智能工具,配合更小、更扁平化的团队,正在催生一种全新的工作方式,从根本上改变了建设和运营一家公司的意义。”他补充道:“我认为大多数公司都行动迟缓。在未来一年内,我相信大多数公司都会得出同样的结论,并做出类似的结构性调整。”
Salesforce——2026年2月10日。Salesforce裁减了不到1000名员工,涉及市场营销、产品管理、数据分析及其Agentforce AI部门。该公司向《财富》杂志表示:“由于Agentforce带来的效益和效率提升,我们看到需要处理的客服案例数量有所下降,因此不再需要积极补充技术支持工程师岗位。”此前,该公司已裁减了约4000个客户支持岗位,将该团队规模从约9000人缩减至5000人,CEO马克·贝尼奥夫表示,由于AI智能体能够处理相关工作,公司需要的“人手更少”。
亚马逊——2026年1月28日。亚马逊裁减了16000个企业岗位,此前在2025年10月已裁减14000个岗位——三个月内裁减了约9%的企业员工。该公司表示,这是“通过减少层级、增强自主权、消除官僚主义来强化组织”的一部分。CEO安迪·贾西曾在2025年6月表示:“随着我们推出更多生成式AI和智能体,这应该会改变我们的工作方式。未来几年,我们预计这将减少我们的企业员工总数,因为我们在全公司范围内广泛使用AI,从而获得了效率提升。”
Microsoft said Monday that it has eliminated about 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, adding to the string of AI-related layoffs hitting the tech world. The company said the roles being cut are “not being replaced by AI,” but acknowledged that “AI is changing how work gets done” and automating many everyday tasks.
The cuts continue what feels to many in the tech industry like an epidemic: companies reporting record revenues while simultaneously culling their workforces, pointing to AI as both the engine of growth and the reason for the cuts. Tech layoffs hit their highest single month in years in May, and AI was the most-cited reason, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Roughtly 120,000 tech roles have now been cut in 2026, according to Layoffs.fyi, a tracker that has monitored industry layoffs since 2020.
We recently wrote about why that rationale is something companies may want to rethink, not least because for many of these companies, the teams they’re now cutting ballooned during the pandemic hiring surge, raising questions about what’s really going on right now. Below is a running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
Oracle — June 22, 2026. Oracle disclosed in late June that it had reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees over the past 12 months, a decline of 13%, which means more cuts than was previously known, including because of AI. “The adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce,” the company said in an annual financial regulatory filing.
GitLab — June 3, 2026. GitLab laid off roughly 350 workers, about 14% of its staff, to fund AI infrastructure investment and handle surging traffic from AI workflows. CEO Bill Staples said agentic workloads are “pushing competitors to the brink” and that the company had begun a “generational rebuild” of its core infrastructure to support what he called 100x growth requirements. GitLab is exiting 22 countries, flattening management layers, and partnering with an unspecified AI lab to rebuild its platform for agent-scale workloads. The company reported first-quarter revenue of $264 million, up 23% year-over-year, and expects to incur $30 to $35 million in restructuring costs.
Google — ongoing through May. Alphabet’s Google has quietly cut employees across its Cloud division, including its Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant-linked cybersecurity staff, even as Cloud revenue grew 63% to exceed $20 billion for the first time and its backlog nearly doubled to over $460 billion. Over the past year, Google has cut more than a third of the managers overseeing small teams — 35% fewer managers with fewer direct reports. Unlike most companies on this list, Google has never announced a single overall number — the cuts have come through a rolling performance review process, a voluntary buyout program, and structural reorganizations, with outside estimates putting the 2026 total at between 1,500 and 3,000+ engineers.
Intuit — May 20, 2026. Intuit announced plans to eliminate roughly 3,000 jobs — about 17% of its total workforce — in a restructuring centered on reducing complexity and reallocating resources toward AI. CEO Sasan Goodarzi reportedly told staff the company is reducing complexity and simplifying the structure so it can deliver better products.
Meta— May 20-21, 2026. Meta laid off about 8,000 employees, roughly 10% of its workforce, while moving about 7,000 employees into new AI-focused roles (that they reportedly hate). CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff the cuts were necessary because “success isn’t a given” in AI.
Cisco — May 14, 2026. Cisco announced it’s cutting nearly 4,000 jobs, about 5% of its workforce, despite reporting better-than-expected profit and revenue. CFO Mark Patterson said: “This was really not a savings-driven restructure… this is more [about] realigning … resources around silicon, optics, security and AI.”
Cloudflare — May 7-8, 2026. Cloudflare cut about 20% of its workforce (1,100 people), reporting quarterly revenue of $639.8 million, up 34% year-over-year and the highest single quarter in company history. CEO Matthew Prince wrote that “the vast majority of those we laid off last week were measurers” — middle management, finance, legal, internal auditing, and revenue recognition.
General Motors— May 12, 2026. GM eliminated 500 to 600 jobs, largely in IT roles in Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan, saying it was reevaluating its workforce needs amid uncertain market conditions. A person familiar with the cuts told CNBC that AI played a role in the decision but that it wasn’t the only reason. GM’s statement said it was “transforming its Information Technology organization to better position the company for the future.” Despite the cuts, the company still had roughly 80 open IT positions, including roles in AI, motorsports, and autonomous vehicles.
Coinbase — May 5, 2026. The crypto exchange said it was cutting about 700 employees, or 14% of its staff, as part of a restructuring aimed at addressing market volatility and increasing AI efficiency. The company flattened its organizational structure to five layers below the CEO and COO, and said it would experiment with “one-person teams” combining engineering, design, and product roles. CEO Brian Armstrong wrote that AI had changed the pace of work dramatically — “engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks” — and that the company needed to “leverage AI across every facet of our jobs.”
PayPal — May 5, 2026. PayPal announced plans to cut around 20% of its workforce over the next two to three years — north of 4,500 jobs — as part of a turnaround strategy centered on AI adoption and organizational simplification. CEO Enrique Lores told investors the company would “aggressively adopt AI” in its development processes and formed a new “AI transformation and simplification” team reporting directly to him, tasked with redesigning the company’s processes “function by function.” Lores framed 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 cut roughly 16% of its global workforce — about 1,000 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 3,000 to 9,000 U.S. positions eliminated, bringing IBM’s cumulative total since September 2024 above 15,000. 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 1,600 jobs (10% of its workforce) to “rebalance” toward AI and enterprise sales, even as shares rose nearly 2% on the news. CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said: “Our approach is not ‘AI replaces people.’ But it would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn’t 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% in fiscal 2026 — roughly 11,000 jobs — to about 97,000 employees from 108,000 a year earlier, with $569 million 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 telling employees it would be cutting thousands of jobs via terminal emails. The cuts came even as Oracle posted $3.7 billion in quarterly net income, up 27% year-over-year, with remaining performance obligations up 325% to $553 billion — savings redirected toward AI data centers. The cuts that would later total 21,000 over 12 months, as Oracle disclosed in its June 22 annual filing.
Block — February 26-27, 2026. Jack Dorsey’s Block cut 4,000 jobs — nearly half its workforce, down to under 6,000 from over 10,000. Dorsey wrote on X: “We’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re 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 1,000 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’ve 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 4,000 customer-support roles, shrinking that team from roughly 9,000 to 5,000, with CEO Marc Benioff saying the company needed “less heads” because AI agents handle the work.
Amazon — January 28, 2026. Amazon cut 16,000 corporate jobs, following 14,000 cuts in October 2025 — about 9% of its corporate workforce in three months. The company said it was part of “strengthen[ing] 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.”