A US layoff tracker built from state WARN notices and company filings.
Everyone counts the layoffs. We read them.
As of October 14, 2026, PinkSlipped's Layoff Wire holds 6,228 WARN notices from 33 states covering 573,852 workers, with notices going back to January 2019.
Oct 6, 2026 · Cambridge, MA + global
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HubSpot's CEO memo, furnished to the SEC with an 8-K on Oct 6, has two lines about AI that pull in different directions. The cuts are "not driven by AI-related efficiencies." And over the past year the company "shifted our strategy from building software that helps customers grow to delivering outcomes for them with AI," a shift the memo says means changing how the company is organized. The first says AI efficiency is not the reason for the cuts. The second puts AI at the center of why the company is reorganizing.
Both can be true, and the space between them is the story. Layoff counts sort cuts by the reason an employer gives, and a memo that names AI as the strategy while ruling it out as the cause does not sort cleanly. In Challenger, Gray & Christmas's July report, Andy Challenger said: "As regulations start to take shape, companies will be even more careful in their announcements, which would make tracking the impact of AI on jobs more opaque." That is why we read the memo, not just the count.
WARN Act notices filed with state labor departments · Filter by state and workforce size on the ledger
The Signal
September 2026
9%
AI-cited share of September's announced job cuts — 3,961 of 43,281. AI ranked fifth among stated reasons.
Challenger, Gray & Christmas ↗Jan–Sep 2026
21%
AI-cited share of job cuts announced by US-based employers this year — 120,136 of 573,195. In 2025 it was 4.5% (54,836 of 1,206,374, Challenger's December 2025 report).
Challenger, Gray & Christmas ↗2023 – Sep 2026
191,961
AI-cited job cuts since Challenger began tracking the reason in 2023. Our sum of two Challenger figures: 71,825 (2023–2025) + 120,136 (Jan–Sep 2026).
PinkSlipped calculation from Challenger, Gray & Christmas data ↗Major Events
375
Freightliner and Western Star lines move to the Carolinas. The North American headquarters and engineering operations stay in Oregon.
3,445
One of the largest recent WARN filings in the US: 3,445 seasonal workers laid off
~3,000
The memo is not public and Kroger has made no filing on the cuts. As reported, it cites duplicated work and adapting with technology. Kroger laid out an AI strategy on Sep 22 but has not tied these cuts to it.
~660
CEO Yamini Rangan's memo, furnished to the SEC with an 8-K: "This is not driven by AI-related efficiencies." The same memo says the company has shifted its strategy to "delivering outcomes for them with AI." Global count.
Oracle has not said how many jobs this round cuts; Washington's WARN record lists 359 at its Seattle offices. Its Sep 11 quarterly filing ties the 2026 restructuring plan to "the adoption and integration of artificial intelligence technologies." Oracle has not said these notices fall under that plan.
515 (13% of salaried workforce)
About 515 positions are gone through early retirements and terminations as the company starts a $500 million cost program.
~3,300
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's email to staff cites removing layers and simplifying team structures, and does not mention AI. The email says about 10%; the 3,300 figure comes from Bloomberg and Uber's statement to Fast Company. Global count.
305
A New York WARN notice lists 305 of 839 headquarters roles at Three World Trade Center, with separations starting September 30.
more than 200
Bloomberg reported the cuts on Aug 21. Apple has not filed a WARN notice or issued a public release.
undisclosed
The company confirmed both studio closures and further games-team cuts. It declined to say how many jobs were eliminated.
WARN notices
WARN Act notices are legal records employers file with state labor departments before a mass layoff or closure. Each row links to its source: the state's own record where we have it, otherwise the report we took it from, labeled as such. A WARN filing does not, by itself, indicate AI-driven displacement.
Recent and notable notices · 6,228 filings on the ledger
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Nov 30, 2026
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738
Sep 15, 2026
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When something lands that we think is going national — a filing, a reversal, a number that changes the story — we send it, with the read attached and sources included. No fixed schedule. We write when there's something worth writing about.
Data & methodology
Cut totals and cause attribution come from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, cited to the month of publication. WARN filings come from each state's own published WARN records, read by Big Local News' open-source warn-scraper where it covers a state and by parsers we wrote where it doesn't. The coverage table on the ledger shows which states are flowing today. Occupational exposure research is cited individually and never blended.
We are currently ingesting from 29 states, with 13 more configured and not yet returning filings.
A WARN filing does not, by itself, indicate AI-driven displacement. Every stat carries the period it describes, errors are corrected in place and logged, and nothing publishes without a person reading the evidence first.
Cut totals & attribution
Challenger, Gray & Christmas
WARN filings
29 states ingesting · 13 configured
Scope
United States only
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