Thomson Reuters will eliminate engineering positions globally as the company accelerates its artificial intelligence push, marking yet another restructuring aimed at reallocating talent toward AI-native capabilities.
The cuts, announced during an internal technology staff meeting on Monday, will hit roughly 500 roles across the organization. That figure represents about 1.8% of the company’s total workforce of 27,100, based on figures from its 2025 annual report.
Within the operations and technology division specifically, the reductions account for approximately 5.2% of 9,400 employees. An employee who attended the meeting confirmed the numbers but spoke on condition of anonymity because the gathering was not public.
A company spokesperson framed the move as a strategic realignment. “As customer expectations across legal, tax, and regulatory workflows evolve, we are focusing our capacity where it matters most to customers,” the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, Thomson Reuters plans to counterbalance the layoffs with hiring elsewhere. The company expects to add more than 250 net-new engineering roles globally over the next two years, with the large majority being senior and AI-native positions. The spokesperson said affected employees will receive transition support.
The reductions fit a broader pattern rippling through the technology sector. Software engineers have become the first group to feel the economic disruption from generative AI tools, which now write code with increasing efficiency. Job tracker layoffs.fyi reports roughly 120,000 tech workers have lost jobs across 228 companies in 2026, including cuts at Meta and Amazon.
Thomson Reuters serves as the parent company of Reuters News. The restructuring signals a decisive turn toward embedding artificial intelligence throughout its content and technology operations, a shift that industry analysts predict will accelerate across media and information services firms through the remainder of the decade.
