AI-driven job cuts may be underreported: Challenger

Dive Brief:

• Technology-related factors such as automation drove 20,000 job cuts among U.S.-based employers in the first half of the year, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a recent report.
• Only 75 of those cuts were explicitly attributed to artificial intelligence, although many companies may be categorizing their AI-related layoffs more broadly, according to the analysis. Challenger’s research department uses…