#automation

Nearly half of US companies have slowed or frozen hiring in 2025, with 39% already laying off workers and 35% planning more cuts before year-end.

Looking ahead, about 60% of businesses expect layoffs in 2026, citing trade policy, tariffs, economic uncertainty, and AI adoption.

High earners, employees without AI skills, recent hires, entry-level workers, and certain age groups are most at risk.

Almost 30% of companies have already replaced roles with AI in 2025, and 37% expect to do so by 2026.

68% of firms increased AI investment this year, accelerating workforce automation.

Jobs with repetitive or administrative tasks are being automated first, while new opportunities are emerging in AI oversight, compliance, and human-AI collaboration.

Workers who combine digital fluency, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence will remain in highest demand.

https://allwork.space/2025/09/6-in-10-businesses-plan-2026-layoffs-fueled-by-ai-and-economic-fears/

Year after year, month after month..I'm having to constantly hear through my manager and from peers that the group I'm in will just shut down. The 'leadership' above us seems to think that the automation that is used in conjunction to our work just 'does what do and there's no need for us', when we pointed out time and time again the instances showing how flawed the automation is, and why the need for human intervention is valid and needed otherwise other groups would be impacted with no one there to catch and fix these issues. Our group is just a very small team of individuals and It's shear ignorance for anyone to think this automation is just 'set it and forget it'.

I dont know what to do anymore, im tired of having to be reminded constantly that we're probably done for...despite hearing this now for a LONG time. It's making me physically sick and I dont know what the point is in me busting my a$$ or giving my all when I feel like im not even wanted.

I ask of those who are in a similar situation for any helpful advice, please no sarcastic responses.

A company like Verizon, which provides a consumer service, is fundamentally dependent on a healthy and stable customer base. By adopting a strategy that prioritizes short-term financial gains from cost-cutting at the expense of its workforce's stability, it is playing a dangerous long-term game. The evidence suggests that a business that fails to add societal value by being a stable and responsible employer will likely face a downward spiral of a damaged brand, customer churn, and ultimately, lost revenue. The very technology that is supposed to make the company more profitable could, in the long run, lead to its economic decline if it guts the consumer base that is essential for its survival.

Verizon's strategy of using technology to become more "efficient" and cut its workforce is harming employee morale. The company's relentless focus on cost-cutting and a perceived lack of value for its employees will, I hope, lead to a downward spiral in public perception.

Verizon is offshoring jobs to India and Ireland and plans to significantly reduce its engineering workforce over the next few years. The company has already completed AI test cases for some roles, indicating a future need for only 10% of the current team. Even more cuts are expected with the development of 6G and a "touchless network." Verizon's focus on short-term financial gains will likely outweigh the long-term public and economic fallout.

Since 2012, Verizon has laid off around 48% of its workforce. These employees had families and friends who most likely used Verizon's services, and I'm sure the company has lost those customers and will lose more with future layoffs. When a company lays off a large number of employees, those former workers will voice their frustration online, damaging the brand's reputation.

… doesn’t exist anymore.

It is not a thing and it goes beyond HIH at this point. AI is the real disruptor and I’m seeing how this is already creeping into my tasks at an alarming rate

The beginning is very warped. The film explores the impact of labor-saving machinery on employment and the economy. As factories ramp up production for defense needs, workers face potential layoffs due to automation. The narrative follows a group of factory workers and managers grappling with rising inventories and the challenge of selling increased output at higher prices. Despite aggressive marketing efforts, the lack of consumer purchasing power leads to a failure in sales campaigns. The film ultimately raises questions about balancing technological advancement with job security and the need for economic prosperity to enable consumer spending. Keywords automation, employment, labor-saving machines, production, layoffs, marketing, consumer purchasing power, economic prosperity, sales campaigns, job security Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/factory-workers-the-labor-movement-a-history-of-manufacturing-layoffs/vi-AA1AuH6j?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W230&cvid=68c313f38e1c4e1d93c93bbfe34cbb04&ei=47

“Benioff called the first eight months of 2025, during which an estimated 10,000 jobs have been lost to AI, “eight of the most exciting months of my career.”

https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/sf-tech-ceo-says-ai-enabled-him-to-cut-4000-jobs/

UPS (Texas – Dallas facility)

Part-time logistics/warehouse staff

UPS is laying off 62 part-time workers at its Dallas facility in response to increasing automation, though it's attempting to reassign affected staff where possible.

Dallas, TX

https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/mass-layoffs-texas-20877865.php

Most people are clueless of the world around them but please prepare. Here is why they are coming out with the severance plan(s) changes. SF is f-cked and so is our society. Verify and do your own research, you don't have to believe me... but this is what politics and corporations like SF have done to you! Greed, corruption and immorality, as history always repeats itself. Wake up and become truly WOKE! It's all going to come crashing down sooner than later!
AI will eliminate thousands of job
Automation is here! Ask underwriting
Too many non-customer facing jobs at SF - going away! Horrible new hires/workforce!
70-75% of people can't afford a home - we sell homeowners insurance ????
65-70% of people can't afford to buy a new car - we sell car insurance ????
2032-That is 6 years - Social Security goes insolvent and will only be able to pay 74% of benefits. What do you think people will do?
50% of people have no retirement savings.
60% of American can't cover a $1000 expense - everyone is broke!
Personal Credit Card debt just hit an all time high of $1.21 trillion.
$1.6 trillion dollars of student loan debt.
Average new car payment is $735! Record repossessions!
45% of Women Will Be Single by 2030 and will never have kids. (no more life insurance sells) Why do you think the US and Europe is flooding its countries with the third world, as Nancy P. said who is going to pick our crops or build stuff? I don't see white and black kids out there, do you?
Populatons - China - 1.46 billion and India 1.4 billion, USA - 356 million! Who do you think wins the economic wars with that much disposable labor!
60% of men are not dating and do not want to date.
$38 Trillion dollars in debt and we are spending $1 trillion a year to pay the interest on the loan. Still running trillions of dollars deficits.
By 2032 it will be $50 trillion and will cost taxpayers/you $2 trillion in interest. That means your taxes will have to double and inflation will get worse as we print more money! We have 801 billionaires in the USA worth $6.5 trillion. If we seized all their wealth/assets it would run the government for about 9 months! They would be broke...one time deal. It would also mean no more Amazon, Tesla, Meta, Microsoft etc...because most of their worth (Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos) is stock ownership, not actually money in the bank. Sounds good but is not reality......
Not even going to even get into all re--rded culture issues .....
This does not end well, SF knows it but most of you do not! Educate yourself. At the end of the day, most of you will be standing in a bread line, begging for water and will ask yourself how this happened overnight...ignorance is bliss. Probably can't do anything about it as it is going to happen anyways. What comes next when it all goes down.... well, let's just say, it will be beyond anyone's comprehension and will make WWII and/or the Great Depression look like a vacation! Su-ks but true! Again you can research anything written here..take a few minutes....don't be that mindless lemming walking off the cliff like the rest of the retar-s! Severance packages are the least of your worries! Your welcome.....

There is zero doubt. Not only did I already know this and have had discrete discussions with management, but I had the shocking experience experience of overhearing a very high higher-up talking about this situation to who I assume was a colleague in the lobby of another business! The goal is to send everything to Pune and ultimately have AI take over all they can. If processes fail, they fail; so be it.

Flashback... apologies if you already saw it and for posting something a bit old(ish), but I just remembered this one...

(FORTUNE MAGAZINE)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyEBnomL1RP/

IBM’s CEO thinks AI can do his job. Well, some of it.

“There are elements of repetitive, white-collar work in my job that AI could do,” Arvind Krishna told Fortune at the #CEOinitiative conference this week.

“But decision-making, creativity, collaboration with people, empathy—those are not things AI can do,” he said.

Krishna maintained that AI will create far more jobs that it will eliminate. “10-20% of job displacement may occur, but probably 30% new jobs will be created,” he said. AI is a “wonderful technology,” Krishna concludes.

Anyone else privy to the new policy that roles can’t be backfilled or hired until you prove why AI can’t do the role? And then you have to go and justify your position to MAV and ME, for them to approve.

With skeleton crews barely surviving, do they actually believe AI will pickup the work?

Obviously they’re using their ridiculous corporate buzzwords to soften the blow. The way they’ve said everything made it seem like this is going to be the last round of layoffs by saying there is no Cascade 3.

But… it says “There is no Cascade 3 as part of Capacity Realignment.”

Those sneaky ba----ds. Capacity Realignment is just phase one. “Cascade 2 will conclude Capacity Realignment.” There’s still Sourcing & Shoring and AI & Automation phases to come.

Maybe this was obvious to a lot of people, but I definitely had a false sense of security thinking this would potentially be it. I knew there would always be the POTENTIAL for additional layoffs down the road, but this sneaky bullsh-t just really jumped out at me today.

I wish they’d stop the bullsh-t buzzwords, grow up, and just say things as they are. Instead, they’re being a bunch of cowards hiding behind pretty words.

Both will cut costs. And AI will work around the clock with no complaints or recurring expenses. Loki knows the score.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/att-cto-touts-millions-of-5g-sa-connections/

UPS is continuing a nationwide downsizing effort by consolidating parcel distribution facilities, eliminating shifts, and closing underutilized sites to cut excess capacity and improve productivity. The latest actions include laying off 62 workers in Dallas, Texas, where a day shift is being eliminated, and shutting a facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 23, with most employees expected to transfer to another location. Additionally, UPS closed a parcel center in Pocahontas, Arkansas, on August 8, though job impacts there were not disclosed.

These changes are part of a broader network reconfiguration aimed at eliminating 200 sortation centers over five years and increasing automation.

The restructuring follows other recent closures and layoffs, including 99 job cuts in Charlotte, North Carolina, in May and a temporary shutdown of a New Orleans facility in July that affected 177 workers. UPS leadership has acknowledged stagnant package volumes for nearly two years and is intentionally reducing low-margin business, including phasing out half of its work with Amazon. Overall, the company expects to operate with 20,000 fewer workers and is also offering voluntary separation packages to drivers, though uptake has been slow.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-closing-operations-in-texas-north-carolina-as-downsizing-spreads