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06.08.202609:30:00UTC+00U.S. Challenger Job Cuts Plunge 46.1% Year-on-Year, Steepening Prior Downtrend

U.S. announced job cuts tracked by Challenger, Gray & Christmas fell sharply in the latest reading, with the year-over-year change reaching -46.1% as of 06 August 2026. This marks a substantial deepening of the decline from the previous month, when job cuts were already down 4.5% compared with the same month a year earlier.

The data, measured on a year-over-year basis, indicate that employers announced significantly fewer layoffs than in the corresponding month of the prior year, and that the pace of that improvement has accelerated. While the figures do not explain the underlying causes, the move from a modest single-digit decline to a nearly halved level of job cuts underscores a marked easing in corporate layoff activity within the U.S. labor market over the comparison period.

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