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Chegg layoffs

We've tracked 3 rounds of Chegg layoffs between Jun 2023 and Oct 2025, affecting 716 people in total. 100% of them lost their jobs in cuts that Chegg or credible reporting tied to AI. Headcounts are what was reported at the time, and some may have changed since.

People affected

716

Across tracked announcements

Announcements

3

Jun 2023 → Oct 2025

AI-attributed

100%

Of affected people

Every tracked announcement

  1. −388(45% of workforce)AI · confirmed

    Chegg cited the new realities of AI and reduced traffic from internet search for falling revenue.

    Source: CNBC

  2. −248(22% of workforce)AI · likely

    Chegg laid off about a fifth of its staff as students moved from its homework help service to AI tools.

    Source: CNBC

  3. −80(4% of workforce)AI · confirmed

    Chegg's SEC filing said the cut of about 80 employees was made to better position the company to execute against its AI strategy, six weeks after its shares fell more than 40% when the CEO said ChatGPT was affecting new customer growth.

    Source: SEC filing (Form 8-K)

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