ExplicitOctober 27, 2025· Education
Chegg
On October 27, 2025, Chegg announced 388 job losses. The company explicitly cited AI as a factor.
Jobs lost
388
US jobs
388
Workforce
860
% of workforce
45.12%
Editorial note
Announcing in late October 2025 that it would remain a standalone public company, Chegg said it would cut about 388 jobs, roughly 45% of its workforce. The company tied the restructuring directly to AI, citing the "new realities of AI" and Google's AI Overviews cutting traffic to its homework-help business — its own framing, hence Explicit.
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