AI layoffs this week: Jun 16, 2025 – Jun 22, 2025

The largest event of the week was BT Group, with 10,000 roles cut (BT Group's 2023 plan to shed up to 55,000 jobs by 2030 (about 42% of its workforce) attributed roughly 10,000 of the reductions directly to digitisation, automation and AI; the rest is network build-out and natural attrition. In June 2025 CEO Allison Kirkby told the Financial Times the original plan 'did not reflect the full potential of AI' and that BT could end up 'even smaller by the end of the decade'. Tracked here at the ~10,000 AI/automation-attributed portion, not the full 55,000. UK telecom.). Across the week, cuts touched technology.

Every figure below links to its company timeline and public source. Attribution labels follow the methodology.