Canva layoffs: design giant to cut or relocate more than 1,200 jobs in major restructure
Canva is cutting or relocating more than 1,200 employees, roughly 22% of its global workforce, in a major restructuring. The Australian-founded design company's CEO called it the hardest moment in the company's thirteen-year history.
Why this matters: This is not a privacy story on the surface, but it reflects a pattern that matters for anyone watching AI reshape work. Canva is shedding a fifth of its people partly to compete with cheaper AI tools, while also embedding AI more deeply into its own products. The workers most at risk are often the ones who built the systems now replacing them. That is a real cost, and it rarely shows up in the product announcements.
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