Talent Risk · Job cuts archive · May 2026
Job cuts in May 2026
72 announcements at 37 employers in May 2026: 33,816 jobs cut, counted once per announcement and only when the employer, a formal notice or two reports confirm the figure; 58 are US layoff notices (WARN).
72AnnouncementsCuts, consultations, buyouts and reported plans
34kJobs cut, counted33,816, once per announcement
37Employers20 of them in the Index
7Linked to AIBy the company or a major outlet
Day by day
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Each square is a day; the number is announcements that day, the smaller one jobs cut. Darker is busier.
The largest
- 18th May7,000jobs cut
- 13th May4,000jobs cut
- 20th May3,000jobs cut
- 8th May3,000jobs cut
- 4th May2,529jobs cut
- 22nd May2,212jobs cut
- 22nd May1,395jobs cut
- 7th May1,100jobs cut
- 4th May999jobs cut
- 4th May796jobs cut
Every announcement
Newest first. Employers in the Index and rounds of 250 jobs or more lead; smaller notices at other employers fold under each day, read under the same rule.
Friday 29th May 2745 jobs
- 653jobs cut
1 smaller notice at an employer outside the Index: John Wood Group plc
- 29th May92jobs cut
Tuesday 26th May 371 jobs
- 1jobs cut
- 1jobs cut
1 smaller notice at an employer outside the Index: Safeway
- 26th May69jobs cut
Friday 22nd May 74,665 jobs
- 2,212jobs cut
- 1,395jobs cut
- 338jobs cut
- 313jobs cut
- 252jobs cut
- 81jobs cut
- 74jobs cut
Wednesday 20th May 144,273 jobs
- 3,000jobs cut
- 417jobs cut
- 389jobs cut
- 354jobs cut
- 8,000jobs, not yet confirmed
- 493jobs, part of a round already counted
- 277jobs, part of a round already counted
- 117jobs, part of a round already counted
- 90jobs, part of a round already counted
- 50jobs, part of a round already counted
- No figure
3 smaller notices at employers outside the Index: NetApp, U.S. Bancorp, Sodexo
- 20th May77jobs cut
- 20th May36jobs cut
- 20th MayNo figure
Tuesday 19th May 185 jobs
1 smaller notice at an employer outside the Index: AbbVie
- 19th May85jobs cut
Monday 18th May 27,023 jobs
- 7,000jobs cut
1 smaller notice at an employer outside the Index: University of Oregon
- 18th May23jobs cut
Friday 15th May 7712 jobs
- 352jobs cut
- 252jobs cut
- 108jobs cut
- 66jobs, part of a round already counted
- 59jobs, part of a round already counted
- 21jobs, part of a round already counted
- No figure
Thursday 14th May 1
- 88jobs, not yet confirmed
Wednesday 13th May 44,132 jobs
- 4,000jobs cut
- 78jobs cut
- No figure
1 smaller notice at an employer outside the Index: Aramark
- 13th May54jobs cut
Tuesday 12th May 2139 jobs
- 29jobs cut
1 smaller notice at an employer outside the Index: Jacuzzi
- 12th May110jobs cut
Monday 11th May 3774 jobs
- 600jobs cut
- 361jobs, not yet confirmed
1 smaller notice at an employer outside the Index: OceanFirst Bank
- 11th May174jobs cut
Friday 8th May 23,061 jobs
- 3,000jobs cut
- 61jobs cut
Thursday 7th May 41,172 jobs
- 1,100jobs cut
- 72jobs cut
- 224jobs, part of a round already counted
1 smaller notice at an employer outside the Index: PharMerica
- 7th MayNo figure
Tuesday 5th May 1700 jobs
- 700jobs cut
Monday 4th May 85,208 jobs
- 2,529jobs cut
- 999jobs cut
- 796jobs cut
- 551jobs cut
- 53jobs cut
- 220jobs, not yet confirmed
2 smaller notices at employers outside the Index: Spirit Airlines, Vistra
- 4th May181jobs cut
- 4th May99jobs cut
Saturday 2nd May 2249 jobs
- 63jobs cut
1 smaller notice at an employer outside the Index: Spirit Airlines
- 2nd May186jobs cut
Friday 1st May 9807 jobs
- 86jobs cut
- 83jobs cut
- 64jobs cut
- 51jobs cut
5 smaller notices at employers outside the Index: Spirit Airlines, Albertsons, Hilton Worldwide, Cummins and 1 more
- 1st May201jobs cut
- 1st May115jobs cut
- 1st May90jobs cut
- 1st May59jobs cut
- 1st May58jobs cut
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