As of Wednesday, November 4, 2026, in Australia, Canva has confirmed a major workforce restructure affecting 1,271 people, or 22% of its staff. That is the number of people affected by the changes, not a confirmed count of people who will lose their jobs. The company says the total includes people facing redundancies, changed roles, or relocation requests.
Canva’s public team update is a note from co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins. The company newsroom listing dates it November 3, while Australian Associated Press (AAP) describes the note as sent on Wednesday morning. AAP identifies Canva as Sydney-based; the New South Wales Government confirms Sydney was observing Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT, UTC+11) on November 4. Reuters’ report was timestamped 10:11 p.m. UTC on November 3, equivalent to 9:11 a.m. AEDT on November 4 in Sydney. That is the news report’s publication time, not a confirmed send time for the internal note. Canva has not published an exact sending time or a physical venue.
In its official team update, Canva says 1,271 people—22% of its workforce—will be affected. The company describes several kinds of impact: some employees will leave, some will have their roles changed, and some may be asked to relocate to centralized hubs. The total covers Canva’s workforce across its international operations; it is not an Australian-only figure.
That distinction matters because early headlines sometimes describe the full 1,271 as job cuts. Reuters corrected its report to clarify that the figure includes job losses, role changes, and relocation requests. The company has not stated how many people will be made redundant, how many will change jobs, or how many will be asked to move. Those are still open questions.
Canva says it will bring its Product, Growth, and Platform teams together into one Product organization, reduce narrow specializations, simplify management layers, and consolidate overlapping responsibilities. The stated aim is to give teams clearer ownership and reduce handovers.
The company also plans to make Sydney the primary home for more product teams and certain specialist roles. Some employees may be asked to relocate. From January 2027, Canva expects most hybrid employees to work from an office around two to three days a week, depending on what makes sense in their area. Its note says local requirements and the timing of individual conversations will vary across the 37 countries where its teams work.
For Australian technology workers, the Sydney shift is a concrete change to watch, but Canva has not published a breakdown of how many affected employees are in Australia or which offices and teams are involved. The relocation statement should not be read as confirmation that every employee outside Sydney must move.
Canva’s stated reasons are slower growth and changes in technology and customer expectations. Perkins said growth had slowed for the first time in a decade and that the company needed to reorganize for its next phase. The public note refers to “new technology,” but does not explicitly name artificial intelligence as the cause of the job changes.
AI is part of wider discussion about pressure on software companies, and reporters have placed Canva’s move in that context. But it would go beyond the company’s published explanation to say that AI alone caused these redundancies. Canva’s note also points to its internal structure, overlapping responsibilities, coordination, team locations, and the mix of skills it wants for future work. ABC News’ Australian report likewise notes that Canva did not explicitly cite AI in its announcement.
Canva says departing employees will receive a support package that includes:
These are company-announced terms, and individual conversations may explain how they apply to a person’s circumstances and location. The note says the six months includes statutory entitlements; it should not be described as six months of additional pay on top of those entitlements.
The public announcement does not disclose the final redundancy count, the Australian share of affected roles, a list of teams or offices changing, or which employees will be asked to relocate. It also does not provide a detailed schedule for individual decisions. Canva says affected people will receive meetings with senior leaders and that local processes will differ. The company said leaders would share more about changes to different areas by the end of the week, with a company-wide meeting planned for November 10 and organization-level all-hands scheduled for November 11. It did not publish times or time zones for those meetings.
Before the announcement, Capital Brief reported that 32 finance roles had been cut in January and that employees were discussing the possibility of further redundancies or a hiring freeze. Those reports described earlier changes and unconfirmed internal rumors at the time. Canva’s later public update confirms a broader restructure, but it still does not quantify how many of the 1,271 affected people will leave.
The clearest summary is this: Canva has confirmed that 1,271 people across its workforce are affected by a restructuring; some will leave, some will change roles, and some may be asked to relocate. The number of actual redundancies, including the number in Australia, has not been publicly specified. For new information, use Canva’s published update and distinguish company-confirmed details from reporting, analysis, and speculation.
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