Feb 25 (Reuters) - The start of the year has seen massive layoffs across U.S. companies as they streamline operations amid rising adoption of artificial intelligence tools.

Tech giant ​Amazon said on January 28 that it ‌was cutting 16,000 roles worldwide in the second major round of job cuts ⁠at the company in three months.

Here are some of ⁠the U.S. companies that have announced job ‌cuts so far ‌in 2026:

Sector Date of Company Job Cuts % of Total Notes

Announceme Workforce

nt

Technology

  January  Pinterest Less than Reallocating

  780 Less than 15% resources to

artificial

intelligence-focu

sed roles and

strategy

January  Autodesk  Roughly 7% Aiming ​to

About 1,000 redirect spending

to the cloud

platform ‌and

artificial

intelligence

efforts

January * Meta  Unknown Shifting focus to

10% of wearables from

employees some virtual

in the reality products

Reality

Labs

division

January Amazon  Target of Part

Roughly 30,000 jobs of the broader

16,000 represents nea goal of trimming

rly 10% ​of the some 30,000

corporate corporate workers

workforce

January  Angi  Roughly Unknown AI-driven

350  efficiency

improvements

February Washingto Unknown A Shrinking news

n ​Post third coverage

February Workday Unknown About ‌2% Realigning

resources towards

top priorities

February 26%

C3.ai about 307 Restructuring

under the new CEO

to improve

operating

efficiency

Consumer and Retail

January Home Unknown Part of its goal

Depot 800 to improve

efficiency

  January  ** Nike  Unknown Consolidating

775 operations

footprint 

Resources

January  Dow 13% Restructuring

4,500 aimed at lifting

profitability by

at least $2

billion

January  Tronox  550 ⁠in Unknown Fuzhou pigment

China plant closure due

to weak Chinese

domestic demand

and increasing

costs

Manufacturing

January  FedEx  Unknown Overhauling

Up to France ⁠operations

500 in and trimming

France station footprint

January United Unknown Reducing

Parcel Up to low-margin Amazon ( AMZN )

Service  30,000 delivery volumes

January Peloton Unknown Cost cuts amid

Interacti 11% turnaround

ve efforts

Finance

January  *** Unknown Part

Citigroup About 1,000 of previously

  announced plan to

shed 20,000 jobs

by 2026 

January  Mastercar Unknown Refocusing

d About 4% investments in

other areas

February Gemini About 25% Winding down some

Space Up to 200 international

Station operations to

support path to

profitability

* Meta plans to ⁠cut ‌around 10% of the employees in its ‌Reality Labs division who work on products including the metaverse, ⁠according to a New York Times report

** Nike ( NKE ) is laying off 775 employees, primarily impacting distribution center roles in Tennessee and Mississippi, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters

*** Citigroup ( C/PN ) will cut about 1,000 jobs as part of a plan announced two ​years ago to reduce the workforce by 20,000, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters