Canva, Squarespace and Angi Cut Jobs as Tech Leads US Layoff Announcements in 2026

The largest is at Canva. The Australian design software company announced on November 3 a reorganisation affecting 1,271 people, or 22% of its staff, who will either be relocated or lose their jobs. Reports in Australia described it as the first redundancy round in the company's 13-year history; Canva has not said how many of the affected staff will be let go rather than moved to its central hubs.

"To set ourselves up for the next decade, we need to refound Canva, getting back to our roots of small, empowered teams with the freedom to make decisions, take ownership and focus on what matters most for our community," chief executive Melanie Perkins wrote in a blog post.

Canva and Squarespace both sell tools that analysts see as exposed to generative AI, as users ask chatbots to produce designs and websites directly instead of building them with traditional software. Squarespace confirmed on Monday that it would lay off about 300 employees, roughly 19% of a workforce of about 1,800, The Verge reported. A spokesperson said the changes were "intended to simplify how we operate, sharpen our priorities and enable the company to move faster."

Angi, the home services marketplace, said in a November 3 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was cutting about 300 roles worldwide, "mostly in middle management and support functions", to "increase focus and organizational velocity". The same filing reported third-quarter revenue down 9% from a year earlier.

Jack Dorsey's Block, which eliminated 4,000 jobs earlier this year as part of an AI push, has made further cuts this week, according to reports cited by Fast Company. They came a day after Block raised its full-year gross profit forecast with its third-quarter results and are expected to hit customer operations, learning and content operations, and risk operations teams at Cash App and Square. The company has not said how many people are affected.

Amazon filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification with Washington state covering about 95 employees, including managers, software developers and engineers. The notice relates to a round of cuts in its Stores business that workers were told about in October. Amazon has laid off more than 30,000 people over the past year.

The cuts land in a year when overall US layoffs have fallen but technology has gone the other way. Employers across US industries announced 617,189 job cuts through October, down from 1,099,500 in the same period last year, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Technology companies led all sectors with 171,501 announced cuts, 21% more than a year earlier, even though October's 5,576 tech job cuts were the sector's lowest monthly total of the year.

November's announcements from Canva, Squarespace and Angi alone will add well over 1,000 roles to that count when Challenger publishes its next monthly tally in early December.