Thomson Reuters has confirmed that it is eliminating a small number of engineering roles globally as the content and technology company redirects its technical resources towards customer priorities and artificial intelligence-led product development. The company has not officially disclosed the total number of positions affected.
An employee familiar with the development told Reuters that Thomson Reuters could eliminate up to 500 jobs worldwide. If the reported estimate is accurate, the reduction would represent approximately 1.8% of the company’s workforce of around 27,100 employees and nearly 5.2% of its 9,400-person operations and technology unit. The 500-role figure remains based on an employee account and has not been confirmed by the company.
The workforce changes were communicated during a meeting attended by technology employees and apply to staff across the company’s global operations. Thomson Reuters said it is reviewing how its engineering capacity is distributed as customer requirements evolve across legal, tax and regulatory workflows. The company added that it is supporting affected employees through the transition.
A Thomson Reuters spokesperson said the company is “focusing our capacity where it matters most to customers” as professional workflows and technology requirements change. The company did not state that all affected positions were directly replaced by artificial intelligence or automation.
Alongside the reductions, Thomson Reuters plans to create more than 250 net-new engineering roles globally over the next two years. According to the company, most of these positions will be senior-level and AI-native roles, indicating that it is changing the mix of skills within its technology workforce while continuing to invest in engineering.
Thomson Reuters has been expanding the use of artificial intelligence across products and workflows serving legal, tax, accounting, compliance and other professional-services markets. Its AI portfolio includes CoCounsel, which supports research, document analysis, drafting and other professional tasks using the company’s specialist content and technology infrastructure.
The company’s workforce changes come amid broader job reductions across the global technology sector. Data cited by Reuters from Layoffs.fyi showed that approximately 120,000 technology employees across 228 companies had lost their jobs during 2026 at the time of the report. However, the reasons for workforce reductions differ across companies, and Thomson Reuters has not attributed every affected role to AI adoption.
Thomson Reuters is a global content and technology company serving professionals across legal, tax, accounting, risk, fraud, compliance, government and media. Headquartered in Toronto, the company combines specialist information, software and AI-enabled tools to support research, decision-making and professional workflows.
