the morgue

August 2026

104 filings · 534,041 humans automated on record.

• 08-31 TELA Bio trims 20% of staff, discovers $17M in annual efficiencies ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-31 Zomato cuts 240 support staff, outsources the rest of caring ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-29 Meta's plan to go full Skynet hits snag: the AI wasn't ready ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-29 Oracle books $27B AI deal, pays for it in headcount ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-29 Xbox layoffs called illegal, which is cute given they're also inevitable ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-29 Synopsys restructures 10% of staff into $425 million accounting line ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-28 Blue Yonder replaces dashboards with agents, dashboard-watchers with severance ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-28 PagerDuty restructures workforce to fund the platform that will restructure the workforce ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-27 Developers fired to fund AI build an AI that fires the CEO back ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-27 Even Healthcare evens out 375 jobs in the name of care journey optimization ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-27 Raiffeisen Switzerland to cut up to 180 jobs in efficiency drive ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-26 Google workers unionize twice as hard, discover AI still doesn't negotiate ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-26 500,000 teachers apply for 1,550 jobs; GEMS plans 200 AI agents to help ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-26 Meta's secret plan was 60% cuts, then someone remembered the optics ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-26 JPMorgan cuts 63 jobs in Jersey, presumably the state ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-26 Intuit discovers it had too many managers, eliminates the discovery ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-26 WiseTech cuts 500 jobs, saves $34 million, calls it transformation ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-25 Man quits preemptively, discovers the future arrived slower than his panic ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-25 G8 Education suspends 40 childcare centres, restructures support office ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-24 Starbucks brews 200 corporate jobs down to nothing ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-24 Automation company loses customer, discovers it also automated away its cushion ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-24 87,714 jobs cut for AI, but don't worry, Bezos has ideas ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-24 Turns out the AI can't actually do Linda's job, but Linda can do it for 30% less ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-24 KPMG cuts 5% of staff, blames market conditions and scandal, definitely not the thing automating audits ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-23 Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs to reset Xbox, whatever that means ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-22 Tyson closes Utah plant, 723 workers learn they were the restructuring ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-22 The Sandbox cuts half its staff, keeps both co-founders on the org chart ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-22 IBM rebalances its workforce, a verb that means firing people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-21 Apple fires Siri team, replaces them with better Siri ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-21 Recruiter warns AI is killing jobs, submits own financials as evidence ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-21 Omnicom outsources its AI outsourcers ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-21 Delta to automate office jobs, charge you personally more ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-20 Moderna cuts 800 jobs while restructuring around the vaccine that made it famous ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-20 Oxford Nanopore cuts 16% of R&D staff to focus on making more things ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-20 126,000 jobs slashed as companies restructure toward their AI future ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-19 Spark cuts 600 jobs, CEO collects $900K for a job well done ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-19 Arrive AI arrives at the future six months early, minus some humans ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-19 Goldman Sachs counts 16,000 monthly job losses, calls it a trend ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-19 Nokia exits China after 40 years, takes 7,200 jobs with it ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-19 Sanofi reshapes workforce, which is what you call it when the blueprint includes fewer people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-18 Salesforce finds a billion reasons to restructure its workforce ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-18 South Korea's youth lose 268,000 jobs to AI, which promptly hires their parents ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-18 Comscore finds $25 million in annual savings lying around the office ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-18 Grab shaves 14 points off mechanical analytics, calls it progress ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-18 Diageo streamlines 6% of workforce into very significant impacts ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-18 Morrisons finds 4,912 efficiencies, previously known as people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-18 AI fires retail worker for being late, achieves perfect attendance record ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-17 InspireMD misses revenue target, finds $9M in its org chart ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-15 Finance and tech firms race to fire people before it becomes slightly harder ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-15 AI fires its first human, discovers it has a taste for it ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-15 Ouster cuts 20% of staff, calls it an AI pivot, stock goes up ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-15 Acoustic Imaging trims 4% of staff, cites sluggish economy and not the robots ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-15 Jumia cuts 11% of staff ahead of schedule, AI arrives right on time ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-14 Startup fires its first human, calls it a watershed moment ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-14 Man wins right to lose job the old-fashioned way ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-14 thyssenkrupp sheds 3,500 jobs, calls it restructuring gains ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-14 Biotech breakthrough means 17% fewer people to break it through with ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-14 Chegg restructures workforce to become AI first, students second ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-13 FedEx delivers pink slips in SoCal, calls it an overhaul ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-13 Cybersecurity learns nothing, automates anyway ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-12 C3.ai cuts 35% of staff to focus on its core competency: losing money ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-12 PPC salaries down 21% as bots learn to burn money faster than humans ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-12 Supermassive Games cuts 75 jobs after weak sales, third time since 2024 ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-12 Oracle discovers cost savings, plans second helping ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-12 India's telecom giants finish 5G rollout, discover they need fewer humans for 6G ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-10 Rapid7 cuts 12% of staff, stock soars on improved efficiency outlook ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-10 Xbox restructures 3,200 people into the most significant history ever ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-10 NEC opens department staffed entirely by AI, installs AI managers to supervise them ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-10 VideoAmp cuts CTO along with 20% of staff, discovers AI can optimize executives too ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-10 Telik cuts 25% of staff to advance programs with fewer people advancing them ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-10 Goodfood enters creditor protection, rationalizes workforce into past tense ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-10 monday.com misses targets, cuts staff, cites AI opportunity with a straight face ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-10 Scripps cuts 12% of staff, calls it a transformation plan ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-10 Qantas says Project iQ won't cost jobs, unions say cool name though ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-09 Weatherman automated out, says the forecast called for it ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-08 Google discovers 52 Washingtonians were technically optional ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-08 Insperity realigns workforce into smaller, more efficient shape ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-08 Zillow cuts 500 jobs to create 'disciplined cost structure,' which is apparently a thing houses need ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-08 Coles offshores hundreds of jobs to create the future, which is apparently in Bangalore ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-07 BMW to streamline operations, asks fewer people to navigate same maze ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-07 700 employees streamlined into the cloud ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-07 Meta employee postpones having children until the org chart stabilizes ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-07 Salesforce trims another 59 in Seattle, AI agents continue their winning streak ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-06 TikTok closes Nashville office, 250 moderators shown the door ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-06 Schaeffler discovers retirement is cheaper when you expand the definition ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-06 WPP cuts more jobs to recover profits lost to thing cutting jobs ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-06 Nutanix cuts 5% of staff to focus on AI priorities ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-05 Etsy lays off 220 to improve coordination, which is easier with fewer people to coordinate ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-05 EA to cut $700 million in costs, which is corporate for people ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-05 Tata promises one AI agent for every human employee, stops short of promising every human will stay employed ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-05 Medical supplier completes workforce restructuring, celebrates AI mask fitter ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-05 Zillow restructures 500 people into an integrated experience ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-05 Intuit cuts 1,800 jobs to flatten management, reports record quarter ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-04 Scripps automates the news, keeps the anchors for now ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-04 ChargePoint cuts 10% of staff to fund the transition to efficiency ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-04 monday.com cuts 20% of staff to align with AI strategy, analysts remain bullish ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-04 Magic Leap pivots from building the future to supplying parts for it ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-04 Twenty million pounds in, 5% of humans out ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-04 Qantas discovers AI works even better when you pay someone else less to use it ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-04 Xbox restructures toward digital-first, humans toward unemployed-first ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-04 FalconX trims 10% of staff, presumably the 10% least blockchain-native ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-03 Record profits, record layoffs: the new math ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-03 Google trims $50 million from HCLTech deal, calls it vendor consolidation ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎
• 08-02 29% of firms cut headcount where AI could, did ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎