#layoffs

Every acquisition brings layoffs, but this will be bad. Usually it's the acquired company that gets the brunt of it, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is used to get rid of as many people as possible on both sides under the cover of supposed redundancy. Prepare yourselves. This will not be pretty.

Shankar was the oxygen that all GTS mafia was breathing. I am wondering how’s the situation there now.. Is the promotion and hiring still based on favoritism?
How about layoffs? Probably still saving friends and family over talent.

Anyone has a clue where we are with the latest layoffs wave? I can see Slack count increased today by 200+. Still no idea what happens in EMEA after Cz layoffs, complete silence.

121 people, NJDOL WARN Notice as of last month: https://www.nj.gov/labor/assets/PDFs/WARN/2026_WARN_Notice_Archive.pdf

Been hearing they'll be layoffs in June on the corporate side, specifically June 19th but because of the 70 on June 12th, are we good? Or still expected?

California

• ServiceNow is cutting 63 workers in San Diego, with keywords including software, headcount, layoff, and CEO pledge.
• Coinbase has layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in San Francisco, with keywords including AI, job cuts, tech, and automation.
• Palo Alto hotel has layoffs affecting an unknown number of full-time workers in Palo Alto, with keywords including hotel, contract workers, staff replacement, and April layoffs.
• Gallo is cutting 20 workers in Lodi, with keywords including Turner Road plant, grape crush, winemaking, and Modesto-based.
• IGN is cutting 4 tech workers in an unspecified location, with keywords including tech workers, Summer Game Fest, union, and IGN Creators Guild.

Colorado

• CAE is cutting an unknown number of workers in Pueblo, with keywords including site closure, flight training, Air Force pilots, and fall shutdown.

Connecticut

• Stamford Public Schools has layoffs affecting 5 educators in Stamford, with keywords including teachers union, layoffs, reassignments, grievance, and school budget.

Illinois

• Hawthorne Race Course warns of 290 potential layoffs in Illinois, with keywords including horse track, potential layoffs, sale, and regulators.

Iowa

• Iowa state IT workers face potential layoffs or job disruption in Des Moines, with keywords including outsourcing, IPERS, service disruptions, and state government.

Louisiana

• St. Landry Parish Schools faces potential layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in St. Landry Parish, with keywords including financial crisis, school closures, debt, and superintendent warning.

Maryland

• University System of Maryland has layoffs affecting at least 84 workers across UMD, Bowie State, and UMBC, with keywords including AFSCME, Board of Regents, University of Maryland, and state campuses.

Massachusetts

• Takeda is cutting hundreds of workers in Cambridge, with keywords including biotech, Massachusetts, thousands of jobs, and July layoffs.

Minnesota

• Mankato Clinic is cutting nearly 100 workers in Mankato, with keywords including healthcare costs, 10 percent, clinic employees, and rising costs.

New York

• The New School is cutting 90 workers in New York City, with keywords including budget deficit, university, AAUP, and firings.

Pennsylvania

• JBS is cutting nearly 1,500 workers in Souderton, with keywords including beef plant, closure, Montgomery County, and production plant.

Texas

• El Paso ISD is cutting 250 workers in El Paso by June 19, with keywords including exigency vote, school district, funding issues, and teacher layoffs.
• Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake is cutting 65 workers in Houston, with keywords including hotel closure, renovation, Compass Hotel, and July 31.

Vermont

• University of Vermont Health has layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in Vermont, with keywords including healthcare, second straight year, budget cuts, and projections.

Multi-State: Not Specified

• Dow is cutting approximately 4,500 workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including Transform to Outperform, workforce layoffs, costs, and restructuring.
• Microsoft Xbox reportedly plans major layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including gaming division, July layoffs, reset, and budget cuts.
• Salesforce is cutting an unknown number of workers across Agentforce, Mulesoft, and Marketing Cloud locations, with keywords including tech layoffs, second round, AI, and software.
• Meta has cut roughly 8,000 workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including AI restructuring, workforce shift, 10 percent, and no further company-wide layoffs.
• Oracle is finalizing its largest reduction in force affecting an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including AI-driven layoffs, tech industry, reduction in force, and Healthcare IT.
• ABA Centers of America has layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including behavioral health, staff cuts, social media posts, and varied roles.
• Sam Altman's biometric ID venture is laying off an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including eyeball-scanning, Orb, government pushback, and startup.
• UPMC is laying off hundreds of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including nonclinical workers, healthcare, previous layoffs, and workforce reduction.
• Worldcoin or Sam Altman's Orb startup is laying off an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including biometric ID, Orb, government scrutiny, and startup layoffs.

United States

• Western Illinois University has been ordered to reverse layoffs affecting 124 faculty and staff in Illinois, with keywords including librarians, back pay, reinstatement, and 2024 layoffs.
• Tyson has recent mass layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in Nebraska, with keywords including workers, Trump, Nebraska, and plant layoffs.
• PVUSD approved about 150 layoffs in December 2025 after earlier avoiding about 100 layoffs in February 2025 in California, with keywords including consultant, budget troubles, trustees, and teacher layoffs.

Bangladesh

• Bangladesh garment and industrial employers have layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across Bangladesh, with keywords including garment orders, industrial sector, energy shortages, and worker reinstatement.

Nigeria

• Nigeria food and beverage employers face potential mass layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across the sector, with keywords including rising costs, forex crisis, FOBTOB, and food industry.

Potential/Unconfirmed Layoffs

• Ubisoft reportedly attempted to embargo reporting on layoffs and studio closures affecting an unknown number of workers in unspecified locations, with keywords including mass layoff reporting, studio closures, employees, and embargo.
• Xbox Game Studios faces potential studio closures and layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in unspecified locations, with keywords including upcoming layoff round, studio closure, financial crisis, and Xbox.
• Microsoft has considered spinning off Xbox while layoffs loom for an unknown number of workers in unspecified locations, with keywords including subsidiary, joint venture, margins, and gaming division.
• Stamford Public Schools has proposed or disputed reassignments affecting dozens of educators in Stamford, with keywords including teachers union, transfers, grievance, and fall staffing.
• St. Landry Parish Schools may close schools and cut an unknown number of workers in Louisiana, with keywords including financial problems, superintendent warning, retreat, and budget crisis.

Company-wide/Location Not Specified

• Innovaccer is eliminating an unknown number of workers in an unspecified location, with keywords including AI-driven layoffs, healthcare IT, tech industry, and reduction in force.
• Amazon and Microsoft laid off a millennial tech worker in unspecified locations, with keywords including job search, tech future, career shift, and prior layoffs.
• Meta laid off a 24-year-old data scientist in an unspecified location, with keywords including job security, AI, large companies, and career rethink.
• Meta laid off an employee who was later detained by ICE in an unspecified location, with keywords including ICE detention, former employee, layoff, and whereabouts unknown.

National/Other Commentary and Analysis

• BNY Investments reported steady hiring and fewer layoffs nationally, with keywords including May jobs report, payroll growth, labor market, and layoffs down.
• Axios Colorado Springs discussed tech layoff prediction markets for college students nationally, with keywords including Kalshi, tech careers, prediction markets, and career planning.
• Robin J Brooks discussed AI and white-collar job losses nationally, with keywords including AI narrative, structural change, labor market, and layoffs.
• AOL and Business Insider reported that job growth remains positive while job seekers face difficulty nationally, with keywords including economy, hiring, low layoffs, and wage growth.
• Fortune reported that AI job disruption may be compounded by low unemployment benefit applications nationally, with keywords including AI layoffs, economic uncertainty, benefits, and jobless workers.
• WION and YouTube discussed whether AI job cuts are real or overstated nationally, with keywords including AI washing, corporate America, mass layoffs, and debate.
• Fast Company or LinkedIn discussed making layoffs feel less inhumane nationally, with keywords including layoffs, workplace, management, and humane process.
• MSN discussed the hidden cost of layoffs nationally, with keywords including income loss, unemployment, layoff cost, and workers.
• Fathom Journal discussed unemployment and layoffs across U.S. states, with keywords including families, living costs, industries, and economic uncertainty.
• Reuters and related outlets reported Zuckerberg's comments ruling out further Meta company-wide layoffs in 2026, with keywords including AI transition, mistakes, stability, and workforce overhaul.
• WIRED and Technology Org reported Meta employee unrest over AI restructuring without a new specific layoff event, with keywords including AI unit, hackathon, employee backlash, and reassignments.
• Yahoo Finance discussed Dow layoffs and valuation implications nationally, with keywords including cost cuts, Xylem deal, long-term returns, and restructuring.
• Politico reported DOJ approval of Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. amid layoff concerns, with keywords including merger, competition, DOJ, and concerns.
• Vanguard News reported food industry layoff risk in Nigeria as sector commentary, with keywords including rising costs, forex crisis, mass layoffs, and industry warning.

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A question for those who were laid off during the last wave, and had unspent PTO (from when they told use it up before FTO was introduced): did NetApp pay it out as part of the severance?

Caught your attention. Sunday afternoon news flash. Legacy SWN staff in Spring slated for layoffs to make room for legacy CHK staff moving from OKC. The ultimate in Corporate America déjà vu!

While G2 talks about who won't last at Cisco, Datadog keeps its employees and customers happy

I’m hearing rumors again… Anyone with real knowledge know if VCG reps will be impacted or just upper management?

Upvote If you are still employed after relocating to Dallas or downvote this post.

The week it's going down apparently. Directors+ targeted again and several other Tech Dev roles will be eliminated completely. Plus an additioanl saving's target that will reduce the remaining head count.

Its official directors were in planning sessions last week. June or mid July member protection will have the largest lay off yet. Good luck to everyone because the job market is not good.

this site active? Other sites to be aware of if not?

I am so glad to be done with Optum. It had it's kind people.... but then it had the people I had to deal with.

Vile humans that don't exist any place else. Ones I'm glad I never worked in person with.

Anyway, since I LOVE to stir the pot. I thought I'd just come around share newer EEOC guidance with you all. I see lots of people concerned about layoffs and offshoring.

Did you know... it's now easier to hold your employer accountable for nation of origin discrimination? That includes American workers.

Y'all should get together in do something about it. (In my Rick James voice)

If you get an 'IC Meets' rating, and later get written up and eventually let go, do you still get a severance package? I'm really worried about a coworker going through this right now. I always thought companies offered severance just to avoid getting sued, but now I'm not so sure. Honestly, knowing the answer affects my own strategy too. If they ever start giving me warnings and there’s no package at the end, I'd rather just quit abruptly than go through the torture of a drawn-out firing process.

Hi all - I’m a director here, younger though. My connections are leaving left and right. Everyone in the company I “grew up with” is leaving. Question is WAGS - heard we lost specialty business entirely. I feel like we are really doing pi-s poorly right now. Anyone have any info?

This company is so behind its time, pushing against goals and KPIs, working with bespoke systems and thinking they are superior.
Exec management tries to make the workforce more efficient while the common Associate has very limited MSFT Office skills (don’t get me started on AI…).
There’s significant pushback against any organizational changes or growth goals while there is a fatalistic approach that we’re all gonna loose our jobs.
Can’t wait to get the f*ck out of this he-l hole

Way to keep us at peak anxiety all the time.

During open enrollment last year, HR announced that the company would discontinue our previous mental health plan (Chevron Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder, MHSUD). This change meant that employees and their dependents who were receiving behavioral health benefits via MHSUD would be forced to obtain mental health coverage via one of the medical providers that we selected (Kaiser, Anthem, Cigna).

The HR email alerting us about this change very casually claimed that “the kinds of behavioral health services covered will generally remain the same” and that “costs may change.” Well, that was quite THE understatement!

I find it truly unconscionable that our ELT, who obviously had to have been presented detailed cost impact scenarios showing the devastating impact to employees, willingly chose to implement this significant reduction to our mental health benefits. And they did so knowing full well that people would be struggling even more as a result of the layoffs and reorg.

Since not everyone might have a need for these benefits (consider yourself fortunate), allow me to paint you a picture of the shocking financial impact that our family is facing.

We have the Anthem PPO. I originally called them to find out the per-session fee for this year. They initially stated $0 copay or coinsurance. That did not seem possible, as we used to pay $13 per session last year through the MHSUD plan. I called back, and Anthem stated that our cost would be 40% of the billed rate.

Assuming a weekly session, below is a cost comparison of old vs. new coverage:
— MHSUD cost = $13 x 52 = $676 per year
— Anthem cost =
— $1,000 deductible (we had not spent anything towards the deductible); this covers 100% of our out-of-network therapist’s fee for ~7 sessions at roughly $152 per session
— for the remaining 45 sessions this year, we expect to pay 40% of the therapist’s $152 fee; therefore a total of about $2,750
— that makes our total out of pocket expense for mental health benefits this year ~$3,750
— that is an increase of ~$3,074 (over 455%!!!) vs. the $676 under the old MHSUD plan

My question to MW and whoever else was involved in this decision is how can you possibly justify so callously reducing your employees’ mental health benefits and so drastically increasing their financial burden? Have you NO shame or compassion or, at a minimum, any interest in keeping your workforce mentally healthy?

We’re not talking about frilly perks here. This is MEDICALLY NECESSARY care. Mental health benefits are CRUCIAL in some cases to keep people from inflicting self-harm and possible su----e.

I am beyond disappointed in this company and its senior-most leaders. Somewhere along the way, greed took hold, and for the sake of shaving a few million off CVX expenses, you abdicated your responsibility towards the human beings you employ and their families.

To think that anything will change because of this post is utterly pointless, I know. I feel better at least having documented this egregious display of callousness from MW and the entire ELT. It might be good for all of us to remember that mental disease does not discriminate. Someday it might be you or one of your family members to suffer a mental health crisis. Ask yourself: are you proud of MW’s behavior? Do you feel his and the ELT’s decision about our mental health benefits is justified?

GA showed up to the Salt Lake this week while many of the long term team were out of the office. Why were they taking pictures and counting desks? Are they on a mission to shut down the office??? There are now 25+ open seats with 5 remaining people in the location, so one cannot expect that they are looking to keep the doors open. Did not the branch have several physical security issues earlier this year? Did not zone and regional leaders visit the site just last week in an attempt to settle the team down in the wake of another long term leadership departure? What’s happening to our company?

https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@OP+1ktmsca1x

Eye opening! It shows how toxic UHC has become

This is a post regarding a specific je-k I have to see every damn day I go into the office.

I see this scrum master who literally says he took the role just to do nothing all day. He laughs at me since I’m a software engineer, saying stuff like “haha I make more money than you to do less work”. Has a snarky attitude. Just walks in like he owns the place. This is someone who made a reputation for himself for being a lazy person. People on his own team call him a slacker often. He’d literally put his feet up on the desk he’d sit at.

I can’t say too much because he belittles me in front of other people, so I can’t say too much without giving away who this is. But I doubt anyone knows this. Every day when he’s at cafeteria, he order a T bone steak, and walks back to his desk with a styrofoam tray that has the said T bone steak. I used to be able to walk away from my laptop when my workload wasn’t too much. Once every 2 or 3 months for that time period that my work was easier, I’d come back to my desk, and guess what I’d see on my desk? An eaten out of styrofoam tray, with a gnawed on bone of a T bone steak inside of it.

He doesn’t do it anymore so I don’t think I can report it to anyone. I thought about reporting every time he did that or taking pictures for evidence. But I was always afraid of “snitching” or being seen as a problem for reporting the bullying. So, I just dealt with it. I don’t leave my desk at Fidelity (due to workload). I don’t want him to speak with me but he acts like everything is ok and he’s the best thing to ever grace this company. I’m one of the only people that are fine with myself coming into an office for RTO, but he made it so insufferable.

He’s a scrumbag. Why can’t he just get laid off? I thought he was surely gonna be gone but he’s still here. He’s a damn cockroach. Better yet, why can’t I get laid off so I can be free and find another job while getting severance pay? Why can’t we just see him lose the job where he does literally nothing all day, or get demoted to a role where he makes even less money, and realizes he’s sc--wed himself.

I know we have many people who are lazy at Fidelity, prior to the sheer burnout from RTO. But how many people here are THAT level of crude? Smh.

I’ve never seen a CEO so completely disconnected and miss the message employees were trying to send.

Thousands of employees were saying the same thing- morale is declining, flexibility matters, talent is leaving, and five-day RTO is making a bad situation worse.

His response? Employees were told they’re wrong, he’s not, and there “might be a disconnect between you and your current professional choice.”

What really stood out was the characterization of the feedback as “more outliers than we’d like.” … Outliers?

When it’s most employees saying the same thing, it isn’t outliers at all. It’s the majority. The same concerns were being raised across all organizations, teams, and locations. That’s not an “outlier” problem. That’s a leadership problem.

The email read like someone who was genuinely shocked by the feedback…. But maybe that’s the real issue. When you’re surrounded by direct reports blowing smoke up your a$$ telling you everything is working, everyone is aligned, and the policy is a grand success, eventually you start believing it.

Then one day reality shows up in a survey and your mind is blown.

What made the email so damaging wasn’t just the double down on policy. It was the authoritarian mindset behind it.

Instead of asking why most employees felt the same way, he seemed determined to explain why employees were wrong instead of him. Instead of adapting, he doubled down. Instead of listening, he lectured. Instead of taking responsibility, he shifted the blame back onto employees.

That’s not leadership.

Leadership is about recognizing when a decision isn’t producing the intended results and having the humility to change course. What we’ve seen instead is a stubborn refusal to acknowledge reality and accept responsibility, no matter how much evidence piles up.

Since Stankey became CEO, the stock has delivered a negative (-25%) price return. Morale has deteriorated to all time lows. Talent continues to leave. Outside rankings of culture, morale, talent, future readiness place AT&T at the bottom of its peer group and near the broader field bottom as well.

Yet somehow employees are still treated as the problem.

At some point, the board has to ask a simple question- if the strategy is working, where are the results?

Employees are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make- longer commutes, less flexibility, less take home pay, lower morale, increased uncertainty, and the departure of talented peers.

The company doesn’t need more presence reports, more mandates, or another angry manifesto explaining why employees are wrong and to blame for the company’s failures. It needs a leader who listens, adapts, and can admit when something isn’t working.

The most dangerous thing a CEO can do is become so convinced of his own correctness that he stops hearing what everyone else is telling him, and that’s where we are. That’s the disconnect employees have been talking about all along.

All the hype about heads rolling today in Boston and Everett - any cuts or was it all talk?

It is very depressing as there are some very good people going because they asked to. Why can’t the organization organize themselves to get rid of dead wood instaesd of not creating an environment where talent and good people feel comfortable.

The next set of layoffs are scheduled, July 15th, Sept16th, Nov 18th and Jan. 20th. AI is suppposedly going to replace all of the those roles. The rumor is a 25% headcount reduction globally.

Will there be more cuts next week?

Were there layoffs in CRIU QC in Tampa?

Thats gotta be a great sign huh? Losing billions, needing to cut prices, and pushing a desperate hail mary IPO.

If we are saving humanity and curing cancer, why are they cutting prices before even figuring out how to make a single penny in profit?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUu3O7YkxMO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Good luck guys

7/7/2026

People are leaving for competitors every single week. And the company isn't offering them better pay or any incentive to stay. Not even a conversation. With others being kicked out through layoffs, where does leadership think that will leave us in a few years?

California Academy of Sciences employees rallied at San Francisco City Hall. They called for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to audit the Academy’s finances. This follows several rounds of layoffs over the last six years. The most recent layoffs in April affected at least 38 union members. Former Executive Director Scott Sampson stated these actions were necessary to reduce expenses and eliminate deficits. Union president Teddy Vollman noted their proposal for executive pay cuts was refused.

San Francisco, California

https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/06/12/sf-california-academy-sciences-workers-rally-layoffs/

Is there somewhere I can look it up?

We used to see financial analysis of Oracle after earnings in this channel talking about layoffs. Any thing happening ?

We finally got approval for a role on the team. How am I going to pick when I sit in on interviews? The worst candidate. With the mandate that someone has to get does not meet I’m not going to help select the best candidate that might knock me into that category for future layoffs. So for people trying to transfer to a new role internally be aware that people are actively hiring fall guys.wouldn’t it be great if we could actually hire the best person so we could do good work?