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McLaren Is Reported to Be Planning 1,000 Jobs at Woking. McLaren Will Not Say So Itself.
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.
Kellogg's Has Stopped Making Cereal in Trafford Park After 88 Years. 360 Jobs Go With It.
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.
Channel 4 Says 340 Jobs Will Go, a Quarter of Its Staff. Here Is What It Blames, and What It Does Not.
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.
Two Rounds of Cuts Did Not Stop the Losses at Dundee. Round Three Puts 190 More Jobs on the Table.
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.
170 Jobs Ended With a Court Filing, Not a Press Release. That Is What REPORTED Means.
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.
Jaguar Land Rover Says Up to 4,000 Jobs Will Go. Here Is What the Ledger Logs, and What the Company Blames.
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.
The Corrections Log. Every Error This Site Has Published, and What Was Done About It.
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.
When a Company Cuts Jobs, Blaming AI Is Free. This Strand Checks the Invoice.
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.
The Scoreboard. Every Logged Loss and Gain, Reconciled, With Nothing Counted That Cannot Be Cited.
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.
A Company Announcing 500 New Jobs Has Not Created One Yet. This Site Counts the Difference.
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.