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Cloudflare layoffs
/ˈklaʊd.fleər ˈleɪ.ɒfs/
Definition
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The mass layoffs announced by Cloudflare Inc., a San Francisco-based cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure company, in May 2026, affecting approximately 20% of its workforce (over 1,100 employees) to pivot toward AI-driven initiatives in the 'agentic AI era.'
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After the Cloudflare layoffs, the office ping-pong table finally had enough players to start a proper tournament.
The Cloudflare layoffs turned their sleek San Francisco headquarters into an echo chamber faster than a DDoS attack.
In the Cloudflare layoffs memo, they called it 'realigning for AI,' but the baristas just called it 'freeing up bandwidth for lattes.'
Survivors of the Cloudflare layoffs now joke that their new performance metric is 'outlasting the AI hype cycle.'