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.
Mr. B
Look up the well documented hallucination problem with AI. You have to be very careful how you use AI and learn what it is good for and what it is not good for. If you don’t give the proper system instructions AI may just make up information and act as if it is a authority on the subject. There are some lesser known AI that are starting to address this issue. AI will flat out lie to you.
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.
ebt
“…And that’s it not actually AI, it’s a predictive text generator, or LLM.”
Exactly! If you improved a fast KB bot to look up support and database info, AI is it. If you wanted an agent that could handle multiple roles, serve accurate information promptly and with zeal, its not.
Many (large businesses) are being sold on AI to replace and enhance your company and its assets. And even more corpo-marketing schpeel. However, the truth is, AI is just a huge waste of resources sold as the next big thing. And those that invested heavily, are not going to backout anytime soon. AI could work, but its needs regulation.
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.
Doresoom
Agreed on all points, thanks for chiming in with a detailed response.
Calling what we currently have “AI” is similar to the misnamed “hoverboards” that are actually two-wheeled.
Dan P
To add to what you’re saying, AI is never going to replace a core router or network switch or even swap network ports; it won’t set up a printer or swap a computer or install more RAM for their massive Excel spreadsheets. It won’t bring monitor cables to someone that has DisplayPort instead of HDMI.
It can’t assess which software is good for your company specifically based on very subjective information, nor can it help users get the app on their phone and logged in, etc.
Oddly general IT is probably one of the safest jobs from AI because AI doesn’t work if your network is down or your computer doesn’t turn on.
CMF
Interesting how the comments went off on AI. I read Stuart’s article and did not see anything related to AI about it.
AI is, exactly what it is, logic based. Never ask it anything expecting emotional or instinctive responses. To do your investigation through pages and pages on the internet, over hours or days. This it can do in seconds, if there is a logical response you are searching for.