2026 · How AI Is Reshaping Work

McKinsey is trimming roughly 10% of its workforce as generative AI compresses the analyst work that was the product, with Bain, BCG and Deloitte slowing behind it.

Microsoft is cutting roughly 9,000 jobs across sales, consulting and Xbox gaming, redirecting payroll toward record AI spending in what has become an annual July restructuring.

British American Tobacco will cut about 9,000 roles — 5,500 eliminated and 3,500 moved to Accenture — in an AI-driven restructuring it calls Fit2Win.

U.S. layoffs fell 53% in June to 45,849, but AI was the leading cited reason for the fourth month running and tech again led every sector.

Cisco filed WARN notices to cut 471 jobs across three California offices, part of a sub-4,000 global reduction the company attributes to reshaping around AI.

Colorado's tough AI employment law was set to take effect June 30; lawmakers replaced it in May with a version that drops impact assessments and the duty to avoid algorithmic bias.

Seattle customer-data startup Amperity confirmed layoffs it blames on an AI shift — landing two weeks after co-founders pushed out the CEO they hired in 2024.

Culture Amp, which sells software for measuring employee engagement, has cut about 70 jobs in its third layoff round in three years.

Amdocs is cutting roughly 3,000 jobs, its third annual layoff in a row — but the first one a new CEO has chosen to call an AI transition.

ServiceNow laid off several hundred employees and credited the cuts to 'real AI efficiencies' from its own platform — its first layoff after CEO Bill McDermott's 2023 no-cuts promise.

New hiring data reported June 24 shows the AI-kills-coders story has it backwards: engineering held up while middle management absorbed the cuts.

Oracle's annual filing disclosed a 13% workforce cut and named AI as a cause — while the company readies up to $50B to build the data centers replacing those workers.