{"id":184726,"date":"2026-02-05T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/last-month-was-the-worst-january-for-job-cut-announcements-since-2009\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:40:15","slug":"last-month-was-the-worst-january-for-job-cut-announcements-since-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/last-month-was-the-worst-january-for-job-cut-announcements-since-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Last month was the worst January for job cut announcements since 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/05\/economy\/us-jobs-data-layoffs-hiring\">Last month was the worst January for job cut announcements since 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/05\/economy\/us-jobs-data-layoffs-hiring\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/05\/economy\/us-jobs-data-layoffs-hiring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-05 07:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>In January, US-based employers announced 108,435 job cuts, marking the worst month for layoffs in January since 2009 and tripling from December\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Two major firms, Amazon and UPS, accounted for around 40% of these layoffs, planning to cut 16,000 and 30,000 jobs respectively.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The layoff announcements were concentrated in five industries: transportation, technology, health care and health products, chemical, and financial.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>According to Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas, this trend shows employers\u2019 reduced optimism about the outlook for 2026, likely decided towards the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>January also saw the lowest hiring plans for that month, with employers revealing intentions to hire only 5,306 workers, a record low since tracking began in 2009.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The primary reasons cited for the layoffs were contract loss, market and economic conditions, restructuring, closures, artificial intelligence advancements, and tariffs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month was the worst January for job cut announcements since 2009 https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/05\/economy\/us-jobs-data-layoffs-hiring Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2243307391.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-184726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184728,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184726\/revisions\/184728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}