Lowe’s reportedly cut around 600 jobs nationwide.
According to reports – both news channels and some of the affected workers on social media networks – the latest round of layoffs are cutting corporate staff positions.
It has been said that the layoffs will affect support roles such as project managers and software engineers.
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Online, some affected workers say they were given no notice, with their termination made effective in team meetings.
Some say they were laid off in group virtual meetings where participants were anonymous, muted, and unable to ask questions.
One report says that affected workers who didn’t attend the meetings only learned their jobs were eliminated after losing access to Lowe’s computer systems.
From the sounds of it, a lot of tech workers were laid off. Again. (See Workers Say Lowe’s is Firing their Entire IT Support Department.)
MikeK
Supposedly, Lowe’s filed a WARN a few days ago, and the layoffs are not immediate. https://www.thehrdigest.com/the-frontline-pivot-the-lowes-layoffs-reveal-the-2026-retail-strategy/
‘Mooresville-based Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is believed to employ around 300,000 associates across its operations, and its recently announced job cuts are expected to affect less that 1% of its workforce…Reports of Lowe’s corporate and support job cuts came to light after the company’s federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) filing on February 13 indicated that the layoffs would be conducted between April 19 and May 1, 2026. Affected employees have reportedly been notified with regard to the impact on their jobs, and none of the roles are believed to be union-protected…Lowe’s employees affected by the layoffs will be provided with financial assistance, career transition support, and continued access to benefits for a limited period.’
Stuart
Purported firsthand reports say otherwise. It could be that more layoffs are coming?
jh
In layoff situations like this, companies often remove access/terminate people immediately but pay out severance or salary for the duration of the WARN act notice requirements. This keeps them in compliance with the reporting notifications, but also gets employees out of the office immediately and without notice.
Jim Felt
Isn’t “corporate” America just grand? Especially in this particular era?
ElectroAtletico
Business as usual.
Lee Hopkins
AI will do all the IT jobs within 24 months
Derek H
yup.
50% of ALL white collar jobs will be gone by 2030, & 10% of blue collar.
This is a trend that is increasing in speed.
Shane Hester
I’m still not convinced. The “hallucinations “ have gotten no better and these LLMs seem to really run off the rails at times and instead of course correcting, they seem to continue spiraling deeper down the rabbit hole. The reason I believe the AI cannot replace us is because it learned from us. Our egos, our bias, neuroticisms and penchant for irrational thought are baked right in to even the most advanced AI’s. How could it ever be better than us if there is no road map of what that is like?
Jim Felt
A corporate bean counter will beg to differ. Until they can’t.
Steve
Tell me you know nothing about IT without telling me you know nothing about IT… There’s just no way that’s happening. I work in IT and even knowledgeable IT people can’t get AI to reliably return useful answers. Bear in mind too that the main difference between a low level IT tech and a layperson is the IT tech knows how to Google a problem to get the right answer. Most IT people that aren’t in the AI bubble will tell you how useless AI is for a lot of things. And that’s it not actually AI, it’s a predictive text generator, or LLM.
razl
18yr CTO of a fintech here (small’ish 110 person / $30m company that moves about $1.5bn in consumer funds a year) w/40 years of software development experience from startups through F100 enterprise.
>>AI will do all the IT jobs within 24 months
No it won’t; not even close. Mainstream AI today is broadly ML with LLMs and we’re about at the end of what that the math for those disciplines combined with the data available can do. While it will continue to improve at the edges, the big gains have already been squeezed. Yes, new uses will be created that don’t exist yet, but the underlying tech is already mature and past the exponential improvement stages.
Orgs using that type of “AI*” to do “all” of anything will likely implode, it’s just not going to be good enough in the current scale/size/power/compliance/legal requirements to actually function independently. See how true L5 autonomous cars haven’t delivered? Don’t expect them anytime soon without unforeseen breakthroughs on multiple fronts. Same here re: IT.
*…today’s AI would have been better named SI for “Simulated Intelligence”, but too late.