
2 Major Career Companies Are Laying Off 1,300 Employees: 'AI Is Changing the World'
Sherin Shibu
created: July 11, 2025, 3:21 p.m. | updated: July 12, 2025, 9:18 a.m.
Recruit Holdings, the parent company of career sites Indeed and Glassdoor, is laying off 1,300 employees across the two sites.
The news was announced in a leaked internal email, viewed by TechCrunch, which Recruit CEO Hisayuki "Deko" Idekoba sent to staff on Thursday.
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Per the memo, Glassdoor CEO Christian Sutherland-Wong will leave his position on October 1 after a decade with the company.
In May, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said that the company used AI to replace hundreds of employees in its human resources department.
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