Artificial intelligence led all employer-cited reasons for U.S. job cuts in March, accounting for 15,341 of the month’s 60,620 announced layoffs, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
That’s 25% of all cuts for the month, up from roughly 10% in February.
Since Challenger began tracking AI as a reason in 2023, employers have now cited it in 99,470 layoff announcements, or 3.5% of all cuts during that period.
What The Numbers Show
Total U.S. job cuts rose 25% from February to March but are down 78% from March 2025, when a…

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