GAINS | 12 September 2026 at 06:37

McLaren: 1,000 Jobs Reported, Not Confirmed

The Financial Times says McLaren is planning 1,000 new UK jobs and a 450 million pound investment at its Woking technology centre. McLaren will not confirm it. The ledger logs the promise anyway, exactly as reported, with a review date for whenever the company decides to talk.

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LOSSES | 12 September 2026 at 06:36

Kellogg's: 360 Jobs as Trafford Park Falls Silent

The factory that first put Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies on British shelves has stopped production after 88 years, taking 360 jobs with it. The ledger logs the loss ANNOUNCED and records why the company says the building itself, not the demand for its cereal, is what closed it down.

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LOSSES | 11 September 2026 at 22:51

Channel 4: 340 Jobs Going

Channel 4 has confirmed the deepest job cuts in its 43 year history: 340 roles, more than a quarter of its 1,276 strong workforce, gone by the end of the year. The ledger logs it ANNOUNCED, records the reasons the broadcaster gives, and notes the one reason it does not give: artificial intelligence gets no mention at all.

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LOSSES | 11 September 2026 at 07:58

Dundee Opens Round Three

The University of Dundee has shed 675 staff in under two years and says it is still losing around 2 million pounds a month. In June it opened collective consultation on roughly 190 further posts. The ledger logs round three at ANNOUNCED, and the first two rounds show why the grade matters: voluntary schemes have a habit of approving fewer departures than they target.

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LOSSES | 11 September 2026 at 07:55

170 Jobs, No Press Release

When Zentia's two Gateshead factories stopped in June, there was no announcement to grade and no window to watch. Administrators were appointed, the Gazette notices followed, and around 170 people were already redundant. It is the first entry in this ledger graded REPORTED, and the difference matters.

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LOSSES | 8 September 2026 at 17:45

JLR: Up to 4,000 to Go

Britain's largest carmaker has opened a voluntary redundancy programme aimed at cutting up to 4,000 jobs over two years. The ledger logs 4,000 ANNOUNCED, records the three causes the company cites, and notes the one it does not: nobody at Jaguar Land Rover is blaming AI.

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CORRECTION | 7 September 2026 at 18:48

The Corrections Log

Every substantive error published on this site is recorded here permanently: what was wrong, when it was fixed, and how it got through. A site that counts other people's numbers publicly has to keep its own errors in public view too.

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THE MACHINES | 7 September 2026 at 18:47

Blamed on the Machines

Telling investors that job cuts are an AI transformation sounds strategic; telling them the company misjudged demand does not. That asymmetry means AI gets blamed for cuts it did and did not cause. This strand logs every AI-attributed redundancy and holds the claim to the available evidence.

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ANALYSIS | 7 September 2026 at 18:46

The Scoreboard

The running account: announced and reported job losses against job gains, month by month, with AI-attributed cuts tracked separately. Generated from the dataset on every build, so the totals always reconcile with the logged events.

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ANALYSIS | 7 September 2026 at 18:45

What the Ledger Counts

Job cuts get announced with precision and job promises get announced with fanfare, and almost nobody checks either against what happens. This site logs both columns, labels every figure REPORTED or ANNOUNCED, and returns to every promise at twelve and twenty-four months.

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