Talent Risk · Job cuts archive
The job-cuts archive
Every job cut announced at large employers in the UK, the US and Europe in the last 12 months, filed by month, place, job and reason. 898 announcements at 291 employers, each on its own page with every source.
Month by month
Pick a month for every announcement in itWhere
Where the jobs are, as the sources state, not where the employer is based.
US states, from WARN notices
Which jobs
The job functions an announcement names, confirmed by the employer, a major outlet or two reports.
Announcements naming each
- Operations, admin and back office22
- Middle management19
- Software engineering16
- IT, infrastructure and data13
- Customer service and contact centres11
- Research and development8
- Stores and branches8
- AI and machine learning7
- Sales7
- Consulting, audit and advisory6
- Finance and accounting6
- Warehouse, delivery and logistics6
- Factory and production5
- HR and recruitment5
- Marketing and communications4
Why
The reasons the employer or the reports give. Only reasons a source states; never inferred.
Announcements giving each
The largest in 12 months
By jobs cut, counted. Each links to its page and its sources.
- 31st Mar30,000jobs cut
- 22nd Jun21,000jobs cut
- 27th Jan16,000jobs cut
- 20th Nov13,000jobs cut
- 18th May7,000jobs cut
- 29th Jun5,500jobs cut
- 22nd Oct5,000jobs cut
- 6th Jul4,800jobs cut
- 6th Sep4,000jobs cut
- 13th May4,000jobs cut
For developers, researchers and AI assistants
The archive is 1,043 pages built from one record. Each announcement keeps one id for good (/cuts/{id}); an id read as one with another, or taken off the record, keeps a page that says so.
- Every announcement as JSON CC BY 4.0, no key, seven days behind
- The announcement ledger every id, with its dated history
- OpenAPI description for agents and code
- llms.txt the site in plain text
- Data & API licences, plans and the same-day feed
Months: November 2025 · December 2025 · January 2026 · February 2026 · March 2026 · April 2026 · May 2026 · June 2026 · July 2026 · August 2026 · September 2026 · October 2026 · November 2026
Labels are our opinion, reached by applying one published rule to the sources listed on each employer’s page. Summaries are machine-written from the best source; the source is what counts. How it works