Intuit Announces 17% Workforce Reduction to Enhance Focus on AI

Intuit Announces 17% Workforce Reduction to Enhance Focus on AI

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Intuit is cutting around 3,000 jobs globally. This move aims to simplify operations and boost focus on key areas, especially artificial intelligence. The company is integrating AI models from startups like Anthropic and OpenAI. This follows a trend of tech companies reducing staff this year. Employees in the US will see their last day on July 31.

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Intuit is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and sharpen focus on its key bets including its AI efforts, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

CEO Sasan Goodarzi sent an email to staff earlier in the day, saying that ‌reducing complexity and ⁠simplifying ⁠the structure would help it deliver better products, according to the memo and a source familiar ​with the matter.

Intuit, which is scheduled to report third-quarter results later on Wednesday, did not ​immediately return a request for comment.

It joins a growing list of companies that have announced job cuts this year, with some blaming the layoffs on higher efficiencies brought on by AI, including Jack Dorsey's ⁠Block, Amazon ‌and Pinterest.

Goodarzi said in his email the layoffs would ​help Intuit sharpen ​its focus on the company's big bets, including efforts ⁠to infuse AI technology across its services.

The company has signed multi-year deals with AI startups Anthropic and OpenAI to integrate their AI models into its software and add Intuit's personalized tax, finance, accounting and marketing capabilities into Claude and ChatGPT.

The last day for impacted staff in the United States will be July 31 and they will receive 16 weeks of base pay and two extra weeks for every year at ‌Intuit as part of the severance package, the memo on Wednesday showed.

Intuit had about 18,200 employees in seven countries as of ​July 31, ​2025, according to the ⁠company's annual report.

Silicon Valley employees have grown increasingly concerned about AI disruption in recent months after over 140 tech companies laid off more than 111,000 employees ​this year, according to Layoffs.fyi, a website tracking sectorwide job cuts. The figure was around 124,636 for 2025.

At the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in January, two executives told Reuters that AI would be used as an excuse by companies that were already planning layoffs.

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