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Cloudflare plans to cut 224 jobs at its San Francisco headquarters. These layoffs are scheduled to take effect this Friday. This local reduction is part of a larger global restructuring. The company previously announced over 1,100 worldwide job eliminations. Cloudflare stated the changes are for the "agentic AI era," not cost-cutting.
San Francisco, California
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/cloudflare-san-francisco-layoffs-22255580.php
A Gartner study challenges the expected profits from AI-driven layoffs. Many organizations reducing staff with AI found little direct return on investment. The research surveyed 350 large global enterprises. Strongest AI returns came from enhancing employee productivity, not eliminating workers. Companies often underestimate hidden costs and the need for human oversight.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
https://mitechnews.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-layoffs-may-not-be-delivering-the-payoff-ceos-expected-gartner-study-finds/
As SAPPHIRE '26 wraps up, look for merch and rebranding swag being given away. The company is now SAIP! All in on AI.
A yet still weirder acronym than SAP ... so I checked on its meaning:
Systems Acquisition and Implementation Program?
Substance Abuse Intervention Program?
God, I miss J White's marketing genius.
LinkedIn plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce. This reorganization will eliminate approximately 875 positions. The company aims to shift focus toward growing business areas. AI automation is not the reason for these specific headcount reductions. Microsoft, LinkedIn's owner, has also made recent workforce reductions.
https://qz.com/linkedin-layoffs-workforce-reduction-reorganization-051326
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/gm-layoffs-ai-severance.html
As an academic looking at industry, it appears that Chevron’s attendance of petrotech science meetings is way down the last few years. Does this reflect a shift in focus to other technologies (AI?), or just a declining investment in R&D and staff development?
Do you know that an average German employee has to work around 360 years only to make an equivalent of what Christian Klein gets as a bonus in a year?
Shocking, isn’t it?
But not really.
In most companies, executive bonuses are a fraction of their salary unless they have a very good year. At SAP, executive bonuses are several times their salaries even with drastic drops in the share price and losing shareholder confidence.
Such high bonuses are made possible because of a supervisory board that prefers to give more money to the board and group executives over actually giving more value to shareholders. Since CK joined the board, there has been a tremendous push to increase executive bonuses and reduce employee bonuses.
There was a proposal to pay executive bonuses in RSUs so their remuneration is based on their performance. But it was shot down by them.
Sales have been trying to get more European government contracts but we’re losing them instead because CK is forcing governments to use Palantir and American cloud companies and they don’t want that.
Product and Engineering has been trying to bring all SAP products together to create a seamless end user experience. But they’re asked to stop and instead put customer data in a memory which is accessible to chatbots from American companies in the name of AI.
Engineers have been learning new skills to be better at their work but they are told that being an expert is no good and the only way to grow is by getting on a management track.
Customers are asking for important features in core SAP products and they are told that they should focus on AI slop instead because it’ll be easier for them to lay off their own employees with the help of SAP.
Employees are just asking for fair salary increases and basic human respect. But executives are treating them as dental plaque that needs to be removed with each cleaning. And executives are doubling down to keep them in fear of losing their livelihoods because it’s fun for them.
Shareholders are asking for SAP to have a decent realistic product roadmap and sustainable growth. But instead, they are getting more bull excr-ment called autonomous enterprise which is just frankly bad marketing. And they’re being blamed for not being open to innovation when the share price falls.
We’ve truly reached an interesting age of capitalism where a handful of people who have many times the wealth necessary for a lifetime are exploiting hard working people so they can amass even more wealth.
Their biggest enablers are the supervisory board and group executives and CK fanboys. Stop supporting these freaks.
What can we do to stop this transfer of wealth from shareholders to the pockets of these executives?
Hi folks! I applied and landed an interview for an AI position. The hiring manager seems excited after our interview. What should I expect if hired? I was happy until I read some of these posts..but now I’m scared
For the last couple of months i've spent time following trainings, learning how to build agents etc but Eliza just isn't delivering. Copilot on the other hand is far simpler to use and gets me what i need without giving me a migraine.
Part of IT Marketing & Sales. We just have way too many people doing nothing. Everyone just acts they are super busy but there is no real work. All of our code is written by AI now and everyone on my team is H1B. If GM was able to layoff 500-600 people then we could probably do some clean up across Ford. Design, Development, Testing is all driven by AI and yet I don't understand why we are hiring like it is 2018. One of the best engineer on our team left recently and we are operating in chaos. Leadership thinks they are right and do not listen to team members. Its pure CHAOS!!!
What's everyone's thoughts on being pushed to participate in Copilot usage programs? Seems like we are being asked to train the AI before the next RIF while being offered "space exploration stickers for our logbooks" for our participation. I am not kidding.
What does the agency footprint look like? Fewer agents? Far less support staff? AI self serve?
How long do Americans have left before AI, offshore workers and H1B visas take the last of the jobs left?
I am expecting more layoffs. I have no insider info. I feel that they are going to keep pushng in the same direction. This means job cuts.
Lookat the stock price. It has gone up several times over since 2023, and guess what else started happening around then? The employee count began dropping hard. That is not a coincidence.
The stock price is what they are watching. it's not our frustration stress & complaints. Not our objections to RTO. Not 100s of posts about loyalty. Nah, not workload too. None of that matters when the number they care about keeps moving in the direction they want.
And now they are starting to believe AI can make human labor worth less than it is today. I hope that is wrong. I really do. I am almost certain it will not. But it sure feels like that is where this is headed.
How much is the company paying for using codex and other AI tools? If the bill is high, it will impact the margin. A large layoffs can not be avoided.
New Jersey Expansion public information: WARN notices in New Jersey affect 141 employees, with separations scheduled between May 21 and June 14, 2026, as part of an AI automation and restructuring strategy.
Commerzbank announced plans to eliminate 3,000 positions. This move is part of its "Momentum 2030" strategy. The bank will invest Euro 600 million in artificial intelligence. These efforts aim to boost profitability and defend against a UniCredit takeover bid. Commerzbank reported a first-quarter net profit of Euro 913 million.
https://www.latestly.com/business/commerzbank-layoffs-germany-based-bank-to-cut-3000-jobs-in-major-pivot-to-defend-against-unicredit-takeover-7423939.html/amp
DeepL announced plans to cut approximately 25% of its workforce. This reduction affects about 250 employees. CEO Jarek Kutylowski cited a massive structural shift from artificial intelligence. The Cologne-based company develops AI translation tools. DeepL aims for fewer layers and faster decisions with this change.
Austin, Texas
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/layoffs-google-translate-rival-deepl-announces-plans-to-cut-25-of-staff/ar-AA22ANSi
Freshworks will cut 11% of its global workforce, approximately 500 jobs. This decision is partly due to rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. CEO Dennis Woodside stated AI now writes over half of the company's code. Automation has reduced routine tasks across various departments. The company expects about $8 million in one-time restructuring charges.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/freshworks-layoffs-company-to-cut-500-jobs-ceo-dennis-woodside-explains-why/ar-AA22u4Z5?uxmode=ruby&apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1
Nearly 38,000 US jobs were cut in the first 10 days of May 2026. This affected sectors like technology, finance, and aviation. Spirit Airlines ceased operations, impacting 14,000 employees. Many companies cited AI-driven restructuring and cost reduction plans. Kyndryl, PayPal, and Cloudflare also announced significant workforce reductions.
https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/05/10/us-layoffs-in-first-10-days-of-may-2026-nearly-38000-jobs-cut-480502/
Kyndryl restructuring should reduce overhead functions and reduce the number of managers that lack technical knowledge
Of the various systems they try to manage.
All chiefs and no Indians will cause the company to collapse.
Ai can identify various areas that can be improved as long as there is a team to analyze the data.
Don't ask me how. I know we are close and list is ready. Expect 20-40% cuts in few products.
Cloudflare on Thursday joined a growing list of tech companies — including Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon — that have reported increased revenue alongside massive layoffs, attributing both trends to their use of AI.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/cloudflare-says-ai-made-1100-jobs-obsolete-even-as-revenue-hit-a-record-high/
Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
https://startupfortune.com/meta-is-turning-layoffs-into-fuel-for-its-ai-spending-race/
It doesn’t matter to who are already let go, but it matters a lot to who are there absorbing heavy workload and on call’s. Leadership can take some more stupid decision on AI data center expansion and betting on OpenAI. As you all know OCI is outdated and old fashioned cloud it can never win cloud race.
Oracle will again do layoffs for employees who has RSU vesting in upcoming quarter. Please create public pressure and sign petition and change RSU vesting to quarterly.
Layoff AI secret agent has detected a collaboration visit at Intel Oregon fab between King of layoff Muxsh and King of stocks LBT to plan out more layoffs by replacing your jobs with robots to bump up the stocks again. Get ready to block him enter all the toilets before your jobs are gone.
You hear it first here !
You can run, you can hide, but you cannot escape ... AI will first eat Software Engineer or QA Engineer roles.
Next year RIF target will be Software Engineers especially order taking coders without business domain expertise. Grade 3,4,5 would be let go after Git-hub Copilot Adoption.
AI usage and other metrics are being analyzed to identify low-performing employees. Watch your back! There will be another round of layoffs happening in July or August. Good luck and happy hunting
Anybody noticed something suspicious interviewing people remotely during Workday?
On TikTok, they show videos of someone under the table of the person being interviewed with a second monitor and actual keyboard typing the answers using AI while the guy being interviewed pretends to be typing in front of the camera.
Weaker businesses are to be slashed significantly as the new focus on AI technologies and AI infrastructure.
Layoffs in Corporate Information Technology Visa executives should be ashamed of how they handled these layoffs. Just weeks after celebrating record earnings and profits, they sat behind scripted talking points and treated people like disposable line items in a revolving door operation. While bringing in the largest intern groups in the matter of a week. There was no humanity, no accountability, and no meaningful acknowledgment of the impact on employees and families.
What’s even more concerning is the false narrative being pushed that AI will somehow absorb the workload of the people they eliminated. That simply is not reality. Visa has not implemented mature, effective AI capabilities capable of replacing the operational knowledge, leadership, and technical expertise that walked out the door. The result will be the same pattern seen in many corporations: fewer people doing double the work while executives protect margins and shareholders applaud temporary cost cuts.
What makes this even worse is the culture that remains behind. Fear-based leadership, outdated management practices, and forced “NS/NS” (Needs Strengthening) labels used to create paper trails and justify targeted exits. It’s an old-school corporate playbook disguised as performance management. Simply put…Bad Bosses.
The remaining employees will now carry significantly heavier workloads while operating under executives driven by ego, hierarchy, and optics rather than modern leadership principles. Instead of building psychologically safe, high-performing teams, the environment rewards politics, pressure, and survival mode.
Companies talk endlessly about innovation, AI Transformation, Psychological Saftey yet many leaders still manage people like it’s 1998.
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AI usage imposes significant environmental costs, primarily through massive electricity consumption, high water usage for cooling data centers, and electronic waste from hardware manufacturing.
While AI can help optimize energy efficiency, its rapid growth contributes to rising greenhouse gas emissions. By 2027, AI demand could use 4.2–6.6 billion cubic meters of water.
Key Environmental Impacts of AI
Energy Consumption & Emissions: Training and running complex AI models require immense power, with data centers currently accounting for about 1% of global electricity demand. A single generative AI query uses 4-5 times more energy than a standard search engine request.
Water Usage: Data centers consume vast amounts of water for cooling to prevent servers from overheating.
Hardware and E-Waste: Producing GPUs and servers requires mining for rare earth minerals, leading to soil erosion and pollution. Rapid hardware turnover increases electronic waste.
Infrastructure Impact: The expansion of AI infrastructure can contribute to local environmental degradation, including air quality issues in surrounding communities.
Experts emphasize that the environmental sustainability of AI is often overlooked, with urgent need for more transparent, efficient models
Why are we pushing to adopt a self destructive technology?
https://youtu.be/F-6la_I-xkQ
What needs to happen to prevent layoffs if good results won't do it? Do they really think AI will be able to replace human knowhow and experience? Why don't we get rid of the CEO and other leadership and replace them with AI? That would certainly save a lot of money.
I was laid off yesterday, May 7. I am not Frontier. 25 years with VZ... 3 moves for this company... I'm happy. I feel relieved. Good riddance. They think AI can do my job! It's not there yet. They will struggle will all these losses of good people. I will be fine. I am done... I think i will go Uber. Best day of my life ...
Few monkeys were caged with a ladder and a hole to escape at top of cage. Whenever any monkey tries to climb the ladder and escape through hole, Huge force of Water is sprayed on them. Slowly all the monkeys tried to pull the climbing monkeys and hit. No monkey climbed even if cage was open.
Similarly, even when employees try to use their skills, management is pushing towards AI. eventually employees will lose their own skill and when they are out, they feel like they are lost in market and will try to go back to Oracle cage.
Shameful Peanut Monkeys
Artificial intelligence increasingly threatens white-collar jobs in Michigan. Experts estimate AI could automate a significant percentage of work tasks. Michigan's large technical workforce faces high exposure to this disruption. The state is expanding adult education and retraining programs. Community colleges are evolving into workforce transition centers to address these changes.
https://mitechnews.com/industry-40/michigan-is-racing-to-retrain-workers-before-ai-reshapes-the-economy/
Leadership isn’t about staying quiet when things get hard. It’s about having difficult conversations especially when their employees are struggling.
What’s disappointing is watching so many of them stay silent while the mental strain on employees keeps growing. Ever since Dan became CEO, the focus has been nonstop customer obsession and AI obsession while the human side of the company feels ignored.
Employees are exhausted. Morale is down. People are anxious about their future while incredible talent is being pushed aside in the name of efficiency.
Let’s hope state and federal governments begin putting real guardrails around employment as AI rapidly changes the workforce. Companies should not be able to aggressively cut human talent in pursuit of automation without accountability or protections for workers and environment.
At some point, companies need to ask themselves: what happens when we automate away stability for millions of people? Will all of this still feel worth it when unemployment rises and people can no longer support themselves? What’s most disappointing is not just the decisions being made but the silence of the leaders who see the damage being done and still choose not to speak up.
Technology should support humanity not replace it at any cost.
Cloudflare announced layoffs for over a thousand employees. The company cited increased AI usage as a primary reason. Cloudflare's AI usage grew by over 600% in three months. The job cuts are not for cost-cutting or performance assessment. Cloudflare's stock dropped 18% following the announcement.
San Francisco, California
https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/sf-tech-company-cloudflare-to-cut-over-a-thousand-jobs-cites-ai-as-reason/
Said clearly on the earnings call , 150 million left for open reduction this calendar year
1 billion left in the overall plan , to be achieved with AI agents
Summary : more layoffs before end of June and anyone doing manual work to be replaced with automation in the next 12-24 months