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Redundancies, offshoring and restructures, often in our DMs before they reach the news. Every tip is anonymous, and we never publish who sent it.

Anonymous tips posted by The Aussie Corporate: CBA change window 6 with 363 employees impacted across business banking, HR and tech. BOQ Group halving its transformation and product teams. MinterEllison making 70 to 100 business operations roles redundant.

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  • Big changes at EnergyAustralia with several very senior leaders been made redundant today, after a recent wave of redundancies at the pleb level. Rumour has it that there’s two more rounds. Company needs to be more competitive to survive.

    EnergyAustraliaOctober 2026

    EnergyAustralia makes several senior leaders redundant

  • Massive Business Bank review underway at CBA, all under the guise of a ‘strategic review’. All job hires frozen, no recruitment or backfill. Redundancies imminent. Management think they’re being confidential but seem to forget meeting subjects are all displayed on the meeting room tablets…

    CBA13 Oct 2026

    CBA freezes hiring in a Business Bank review

  • PwC has told its Aus-based EAs they’ll need to spend three days a week in the office, in a phased approach from late Jan

    PwC13 Oct 2026

    PwC tells its EAs to spend three days a week in the office

  • Grant Thronton just announced job cuts to EA as they are outsourcing to Phillipines. Dont know if other roles are impacted.

    Grant Thornton13 Oct 2026

    Grant Thornton cuts EA jobs as the work moves to the Philippines

  • Anon of course. Big wave of redundancies at RACQ today. Lots of roles in Technology affected. Other areas of the business affected too, don’t know the impact yet.

    RACQ13 Oct 2026

    Big wave of redundancies at RACQ

  • SEEK has told SEEK Grad clients that the platform, formerly GradConnection, will be retired on 8 November 2026 and folded into SEEK’s main job site. Existing client contracts with SEEK Grad will end. Clients are being offered either a conversion of their remaining contract value into SEEK products or a refund, and account managers are contacting them about next steps.

    SEEK13 Oct 2026

    SEEK retiring SEEK Grad, formerly GradConnection, on 8 November

The tracker

Redundancies and job cuts in Australia, 2026

Every redundancy round, offshoring move and restructure that has reached us, newest first. Each one links to the tip in full.

Redundancies, offshoring and restructures as they reached The Aussie Corporate, newest first
DateCompanyWhat we heardRoles
October 2026 EnergyAustralia EnergyAustralia makes several senior leaders redundant Several senior leaders
13 Oct 2026 CBA CBA freezes hiring in a Business Bank review
13 Oct 2026 Grant Thornton Grant Thornton cuts EA jobs as the work moves to the Philippines EAs
13 Oct 2026 RACQ Big wave of redundancies at RACQ Lots of technology roles
13 Oct 2026 BDO Australia BDO Australia making quiet redundancies and offshoring roles
October 2026 HubSpot HubSpot makes 10% of staff redundant 10% of staff
October 2026 Endeavour Group Endeavour offshoring customer care, finance and merch roles to Bangladesh
October 2026 EBOS Group EBOS Group redundancies and offshoring, with 150 finance staff gone 150 finance, about 100 IT and project
October 2026 Bupa Bupa to announce cuts towards the end of October 15% of digital
6 Oct 2026 NDIA NDIA offering voluntary redundancies for the first time
6 Oct 2026 Treasury Wine Estates Treasury Wine Estates farewells 177 staff 177 globally
September 2026 Telstra Telstra sending 650 call centre jobs to the Philippines 650 offshore, 30 redundant
September 2026 Officeworks More redundancies at Officeworks as roles move offshore
September 2026 ALDI ALDI Stores Australia offshoring IT, finance, HR and buying roles About 40% of staff kept
September 2026 Visa Visa laying off 7% of staff 7% of staff
September 2026 Coles Coles moving some work to Accenture or overseas
September 2026 Stockland Stockland redundancies for the fourth year in a row
September 2026 ServiceNow ServiceNow redundancies estimated at 2,500 globally 2,500 globally (estimate)
September 2026 PwC Quiet redundancies at PwC
29 Sep 2026 RACV RACV makes redundancies with no restructure announcement
29 Sep 2026 BOQ Group BOQ Group halves its transformation and product teams Half of two teams
22 Sep 2026 Woolworths Woolworths moves more finance roles to India
22 Sep 2026 Westpac Massive culls at Westpac under the Catalyst banner
22 Sep 2026 NAB and Ubank NAB and Ubank restructure set for October
22 Sep 2026 La Trobe University La Trobe University announces voluntary redundancies
22 Sep 2026 Yarra Trams Massive round of redundancies at Yarra Trams
22 Sep 2026 Officeworks Officeworks advertising roles offshore before telling staff
15 Sep 2026 EML EML lets go of all its HR partners All HR partners
15 Sep 2026 EnergyAustralia Another big round of job cuts at EnergyAustralia
15 Sep 2026 CBA CBA change window 6 hits 363 employees 363
15 Sep 2026 MinterEllison MinterEllison makes 70 to 100 business operations roles redundant 70 to 100
8 Sep 2026 Coles Coles begins its first wave of redundancies 450 to 500, then 500 to 550
8 Sep 2026 REA REA's WA team gone to offshoring Entire WA team
8 Sep 2026 Uber Uber removing Melbourne as an operations hub Most of ops
1 Sep 2026 Sydney Airport Sydney Airport makes dozens of roles redundant Dozens
August 2026 Macquarie Macquarie runs another round of redundancies
August 2026 O'Brien Glass O'Brien Glass moving admin roles to the Philippines Most admin roles
August 2026 DJCS Restructuring at DJCS departments
25 Aug 2026 Reckitt Reckitt ANZ makes 45 finance roles redundant 45
25 Aug 2026 VidaCorp / DBG Health Redundancies across VidaCorp and DBG Health
25 Aug 2026 Dynamoney Dynamoney cutting 15% of its workforce 15% of staff
11 Aug 2026 Team Global Express Team Global Express offshoring customer service to the Philippines

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