{"id":356139,"date":"2025-11-04T23:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356139\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:49:12","slug":"ibm-to-lay-off-thousands-in-q4-amid-ai-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356139\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM to Lay Off Thousands in Q4 Amid AI Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ibm11762290560.jpg\" align=\"absmiddle\" alt=\"IBM to Lay Off Thousands in Q4 Amid AI Push\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tech giant IBM has announced plans to cut thousands of jobs in the fourth quarter of 2025, joining a growing list of major companies trimming their workforce amid the rise of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the fourth quarter, we are executing an action that will impact a low single-digit percentage of our global workforce,\u201d an IBM spokesperson told CNBC. \u201cWhile this may affect some U.S.-based roles, our overall U.S. employment is expected to remain flat year over year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to its latest annual report, IBM employed around 270,000 people at the end of 2024. A 1% reduction would translate to roughly 2,700 job cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows similar actions by other tech giants aiming to streamline operations and boost efficiency through AI.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Amazon announced it would lay off 14,000 corporate workers, while Meta\u2019s AI division reportedly let go of 600 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Industry analysts say the layoffs highlight a shifting trend in the tech sector \u2014 companies are tightening budgets and restructuring teams, using AI as both a tool for innovation and a reason for downsizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tech giant IBM has announced plans to cut thousands of jobs in the fourth quarter of 2025, joining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":356140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,30959,39858,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-356139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-ibm","11":"tag-lay-offs","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115494110494797483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}