Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer

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Recruit Holdings, the Japanese job site conglomerate that owns recruitment job site Indeed and employer reviewer Glassdoor, has eliminated about 1,300 positions.

In an announcement on Friday, the business said it was cutting staff. CEO Hisayuki "Deko" Idekoba reportedly told employees in an email on Thursday that Glassdoor's operations will be folded into Indeed, and Glassdoor's CEO Christian Sutherland-Wong will step down from his role. The research and development divisions are going to be hit hard and the cuts are worldwide.

"The HR Technology segment of Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., which operates Indeed and Glassdoor, announced a reduction of approximately 1,300 employees, representing about 6 percent of the segment's total workforce as of April 1, 2025," reads the official statement.

While the specific divisions to be losing staff were not named, this could be another case of AI eating jobs – or using AI as a convenient excuse to reverse overhiring. In May, Idekoba told [PDF] the JPMorgan Chase's 53rd Annual Global Technology, Media, and Communications conference that AI was going to be key to replacing staff – ironically boosting demand for his websites.

"We're going to have more agentic experience for employers and job seekers and to improve our internal productivity. I have been saying, almost every team, 'Hey, you guys need to rethink and redesign all operations from scratch with AI. How can you redesign it?'" he opined.

"For example, one-third of our programming codes are written by AI now. It's going to be 50 percent pretty soon. Meaning, we need to have a good vision. Two years later, even the next year, how we are going to work with AI. That should be the center of our new design. AI change is big."

Based on his statements, then, engineers will have it particularly tough. Hiring demand for coders has dropped off 35 percent since the pre-COVID levels of 2019, he explained. ®

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