{"id":216076,"date":"2025-06-17T04:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/pwc-cuts-1500-jobs-overnight-proof-that-automation-not-recession-is-driving-the-layoffs"},"modified":"2025-06-17T04:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:24:49","slug":"pwc-cuts-1500-jobs-overnight-proof-that-automation-not-recession-is-driving-the-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/pwc-cuts-1500-jobs-overnight-proof-that-automation-not-recession-is-driving-the-layoffs","title":{"rendered":"PwC cuts 1,500 jobs overnight\u2014 Proof that automation, not recession, is driving the layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pwc-cuts-1500-jobs-overnight-proof-that-automation-not-recession-is-driving-the-layoffs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) told 1,500 U.S. employees on Monday that their roles were eliminated with immediate effect\u2014about 2 percent of its national headcount. In the company-wide e-mail obtained by industry blog Going Concern, leadership cited \u201chistorically low attrition\u201d and a need to \u201calign the firm for the future.\u201d Publicly, a spokesperson framed the move as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) told 1,500 U.S. employees on Monday that their roles were eliminated with immediate effect\u2014about 2 percent of its national headcount. In the company-wide e-mail obtained by industry blog Going Concern, leadership cited \u201chistorically low attrition\u201d and a need to \u201calign the firm for the future.\u201d Publicly, a spokesperson framed the move as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}