#layoffs

Maybe this is me but the concept of announcing several executive level promotions and simultaneously telling the workforce that there will be layoffs to offset inflation, shows a total lack of humanity and civilized behavior. Is that what we have become?

What a real win for Jane. Citibank cuts staff for raises to the top executives. No one knows including the entire department. You just vanish after 10 years and they say nothing. While Jane received a $41 million dollar pay day.

I certainly let go of all my 200+ shares in the company. This is not progress or innovation this is pure theft. I see top executives are selling very quickly. To the management shame on you!

You couldn’t even give a hint of notice saying anything. Not even a 60 day notice prior to letting us go. A tap on the shoulder and say hey you’re going to be laid off after a decade of work. When the stock falls to nothing no one will be shocked.

Elk Grove Unified School District board members voted to eliminate or reassign numerous classified positions. This reduction totaled 60.0388 full-time equivalent positions across various roles. The board simultaneously approved a significant pay raise for its own members. Their maximum monthly compensation will increase from $750 to $3,000. This decision occurred amidst a nearly $35 million district deficit and union objections.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article314737935.html

Talcott Resolution Life Inc. plans to lay off 101 employees. These job cuts will occur at its downtown Hartford office. The company is closing specific operations and information technology functions. Layoffs are effective starting April 24. Talcott aims for operational efficiency and growth focus.

https://hartfordbusiness.com/article/3-years-after-opening-its-hartford-office-talcott-financial-group-announces-101-layoffs/

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen warned of significant budget cuts. His office faces a potential 12% reduction, totaling $19 million. This could lead to 75 to 80 employee layoffs. Misdemeanor prosecutions and youth prevention programs may be abandoned. The county faces a $1 billion deficit, causing an unprecedented fiscal crisis.

https://www.kqed.org/news/12073766/santa-clara-county-da-warns-of-potential-layoffs-and-dire-safety-risks-amid-budget-crisis

Gallo, the largest U.S. wine company, is closing a production facility. The company will also lay off 93 workers at four other California locations. The Ranch Winery in St. Helena will permanently close, affecting 56 employees. Layoffs will occur at Louis M. Martini, Orin Swift, J Vineyards, and Frei Ranch. These changes reflect market dynamics and evolving consumer demand in the wine industry.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/gallo-ranch-winery-layoffs-21360776.php

CoStar Group conducted another round of layoffs at its Richmond headquarters. These job cuts impacted employees on its Homes.com platform. The company cited advanced AI technology deployment as the reason for the reductions. This marks the second major layoff event in less than a year for the real estate technology firm. CoStar's stock price has recently declined significantly.

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/costar-layoffs-richmond-feb-18-2026

Everyone sees the writing on the wall Get out while you can! This is as bad as it can get in luxury retail.

If so, whats the move

We have been informed that the hertz office at 7725 W Reno in Oklahoma City is laying off a large number of employees and shifting the jobs to 3rd party company in India. As of right now we can stay with the company until the end of May 2026

Tracking participants count #general Slack channel in Oracle One workspace, as the fastest available proxy indication of ongoing layoffs.

Since our local troll started counterfeiting Slack totals to induce panic on the front page, I have to create this thread not waiting for March.

• feb01-feb19: 485 layoffs, and 725 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• jan01-jan31: 1604 layoffs, and 1834 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• dec01-dec31: 1031 layoffs, and 844 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• nov01-nov30: 1614 layoffs, and 1327 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• oct01-oct31: 2504 layoffs, 1762 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• sep02-sep30: 6275 layoffs, 861 additions (based on Slack regular tracking)
• aug14-sep01: 733 layoffs (based on Slack very few data points)
• aug01-aug14: ?2900 layoffs in IDC (based on media reports)

Regions outside IDC and NA usually have a significant delay when laid off people are disconnected from Slack (e.g. 1 month in Pacific regions, perhaps longer in some EU countries), so this is a floor estimate with additions reflected immediately, but reductions lagging behind on average.

I will post daily in comments on the count change and running current month total while this post is still on the first page.

Any news of craft layoffs in southeast in 2nd quarter in Louisiana ?

Only know of one person that was already hit by layoffs before Thursday. Southlake

As of today, 2/18/2026, several Director level and above were laid off in DFW, Clinic Ops. Invitations were emailed for a “Leadership Touchbase” tomorrow morning. One invitation is for 7:45 a.m. and the other is for 8:00 a.m. For those who have made it through multiple layoffs over the past 3 years, we know what those two invitations mean. Additional clinic consolidations have already been announced, and the entire DFW market will soon only consist of about 40 Primary Care clinics. Fewer clinics means fewer employees. This is a last ditch effort to slow the bleeding before WellMed goes belly up.

From 168,783 10am est to 166,465 as of 5pm est time

I have never been through this before, and am wondering how they notify people of JE. Does an email invite for an HR group meeting go out? Does your direct supervisor tell you? How are you informed of your severance package? My team and I are so worried. I wish we would know what tomorrow and the future holds.

You are nothing more to any company than a line on a spreadsheet. They look at the cost of keeping you as an employee versus the cost of dumping you. A company accountant ran an algorythm on a speadsheet and you are choosen. You may have has a less than stellar review 5 years ago aka your boss is toxic. Perhaps your department is a cost center that needs to be trimmed to improve the balance sheet, or you make over the median salary for someone in your band. They often outsource to replace IT departments and marketing/sales. They could cut staff as a way to hide losses, without admitting it to the street. What ever the cause you are gone. Do the stages of grief, own it, but keep moving.

When Unilever laid me off 20 years ago, I had small children, alimony, and lots of bills. I drank th corporate Kool-Aid back then. I had to su-k it up and make finding a job my job. I worked retail while I looked, I did odd freelance jobs to keep my skills up. I did take another job at a lower salary 2 years later at another insurance company, then went to Cigna. The thing was, I survived, and when I felt the enviornment at Cigna had nothing left to offer me after 5 years, I put out my resume and moved on. I fired Cigna. I realized my job doesn't define me. I depend on me, not a company. It was a tough journey that humbled me. I survived and then I thrived.

What should we expect to see? What time? Who will hear what?
Asking from Home Health - recently acquired from LHC.

Hello lovely people,
You guys probably dgaf about contractors but a lot of the contractors are being let go of, being replaced by offshore resources.

While I am really happy for the opportunity and hope this brings to the people offshore, I hope they are not overworked and expected to do as much as the onshore resources. Also, good luck to ACI and all the managers for future.

New Gold is laying off 85 employees. These layoffs are at the New Afton gold and copper mine. The C-Zone block cave project is mostly complete. The company states these job cuts are part of the project cycle. New Gold expects production growth at the mine for three years.

https://cfjctoday.com/2026/02/17/new-gold-laying-off-85-employees-at-new-afton-mine/

Garlock Flexibles will close two sites. These facilities are located in Massachusetts. Nearly 100 employees will lose their jobs. The company is a flexible packaging firm. Layoffs are scheduled to begin in late April.

https://www.plasticsnews.com/end-markets/packaging/pn-garlock-flexibles-closing-layoffs/

Shares of Gemini dropped over 14%. Three senior executives are departing the company. This includes the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Legal Officer. These changes are part of a broader restructuring effort. The company also reduced its global workforce by 25% and scaled back foreign operations.

https://coinpaper.com/14699/gemi-stock-forecast-crypto-exchange-gemini-layoffs-trigger-15-decline

Sabre’s operational trajectory reveals a profound leadership failure to translate a $323 million five-year investment in software development into genuine innovation, as these funds have served primarily as defensive "keep-the-lights-on" expenditure rather than a catalyst for non-linear revenue or structural cost efficiency. This stagnation is starkly evidenced by an efficiency paradox where the company shed 38% of its workforce—collapsing from approximately 7,500 employees in 2022 to 4,650 in 2025—while simultaneously handling 21% higher booking volumes, exposing a staggering level of historical dead weight and persistent resource mismanagement. The reality is that Sabre’s "transformation" is fueled not by software-driven productivity, but by an aggressive cycle of layoffs; nearly 100% of the $70 million in technology expense reductions in 2025 came from labor and professional service cuts, while cloud migration contributed a mere $18 million in hosting savings. With leadership planning to sink another $65 million into restructuring and further layoffs for 2026, it is clear the primary strategy remains shrinking for survival, confirming that half a decade of massive capital outlays has yielded no meaningful innovation-driven value or digital scale for the enterprise.

I know at least one L3 who was impacted. I wonder which L4s got the ax.

And why the he!! do they call layoffs “surplus” here? George Carlin would have a field day with that sh!t.

yepp it’s true. had a meeting about it today that ruined my whole day. they hired these people as remote workers and are now firing them for being remote. how cruel. and they say it’s to promote “collaboration” but nobody in office collaborates on anything. and our team is split up between 5 offices so everything is done virtual anyways. it feels like BS just to fill up offices and keep their precious precious real estate value. what else would be the point of laying off fully trained employees just to replace them with in office workers? and we already can’t handle our workloads, the last thing we need right now is to lose a bunch of people. this is gonna hit the rest of us hard.

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/costar-layoffs-richmond-feb-18-2026

Says it hit homes.com

Just after 6 months and barely being integrated, still balancing 2 phones, 2 computers, 2 emails. Without TF really knowing who is who and what we do, the layoffs have stated. They said it is strategic, that this will make us stronger blah blah blah..

Main Street Sports Group announced it will close multiple offices. This includes facilities in Southport, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. Over 44 jobs will be eliminated from the Southport location alone. The layoffs affect various roles, including management and engineers. These permanent job cuts are expected by mid-April.

https://dailyvoice.com/connecticut/fairfield/fanduel-sports-network-shuttering-southport-office-44-layoffs-expected/

Anyone having any insight on this? As we heard big layoffs planned

It's officially happening, they are firing remote claims and disputes people, anybody who's not close to a hub location. Confirmed with emil from EFDC.
What su-ks is that they hired remote people to help during covid, and it's now they're just letting all those good people go.
Oh, but the plus side?! Their rolls are going to be open for hiring at a hub of course. Insert eyeroll.

Did the email move you at all? 🤔 It felt hollow to me. If they could have gotten rid of all of us at once they would have. I feel more like we are on a subway train...yeah, all of us are moving "forward", but we all have "stops" ahead where we must get off....Oh well, whatever.

78 laid off Statewide in New Jersey, with an effective dates of 4/21/26 to 9/2/26

https://www.nj.gov/labor/assets/PDFs/WARN/2026_WARN_Notice_Archive.pdf

Heads up it’s getting started

They exceeded the 50 employee layoff in NJ and failed to file the appropriate paperwork with the state.

As a result, they’ve advised employees who were scheduled to be laid off in 2 weeks, that they will be on payroll for another 3 months.

The best part is, the additional 3 months still does not satisfy the law. So why don’t they file with the state?

The company must now pay 1 week for every year of service in addition to 4 additional weeks pay.

“No, simply keeping employees on payroll for an additional 3 months (or any period) does not satisfy or cure a failure to file/provide the required NJ WARN notice.
Under New Jersey’s amended Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (NJ WARN) Act (effective since April 10, 2023, with key changes from 2020 legislation), employers must provide 90 days’ advance written notice of a covered mass layoff, termination of operations, or transfer of operations. This notice must go to affected employees, their collective bargaining representatives (if any), the chief elected official of the municipality, and the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (via specific forms and methods).
The law does not allow “pay in lieu of notice” as a substitute for providing the actual advance notice. Unlike some interpretations of federal WARN (which imposes back pay liability for the violation period but doesn’t explicitly prohibit pay-in-lieu alternatives in practice), NJ WARN is stricter in structure:
• The primary requirement is advance written notice (90 days) to allow employees time to prepare, seek new work, or access retraining.
• If an employer fails to provide the full 90 days’ notice (or any required notice), the penalty is not avoided by paying extra wages or keeping people on payroll longer. Instead, each affected employee is entitled to:
◦ Mandatory severance (one week of pay per full year of service, calculated at the higher of their average rate over the last three years or final regular rate) — this applies regardless of whether notice was given.
◦ An additional four weeks of severance pay as a specific penalty for the notice failure (this extra four weeks is not prorated for partial notice; it’s all-or-nothing if the full 90 days isn’t provided).
Keeping employees on payroll longer might reduce some practical harm (e.g., they continue earning wages and benefits), but it does not fulfill the statutory notice obligation or eliminate the employer’s liability for the additional four-week severance penalty. The law emphasizes actual advance notification, not just compensation.
Federal WARN (which NJ WARN builds on but exceeds) similarly requires 60 days’ notice with no explicit provision for pay-in-lieu as a complete substitute, and violations trigger back pay liability up to 60 days.
If a company is in this situation, the best course is usually to:
• Provide as much notice as possible immediately (even if short).
• Pay the mandatory severance plus the four-week penalty if notice was deficient.
• Consult employment counsel, as employees cannot waive these rights without state or court approval, and claims can be pursued individually or collectively.
For the official statute text and filing details, see the NJ Department of Labor site (nj.gov/labor) or the 2023 amendments PDF. This is not legal advice—specific cases depend on facts like employer size (100+ employees nationwide), number affected (50+ in NJ), and exact triggers.”

A new meeting is on my calendar for an SMB town hall on Friday.

Is this going to be a meeting for layoffs?

Any news of layoffs within ECS tomorrow?

I was notified that my position was being eliminated around 6am, before I even took a sip of coffee. SMH.

Irving was heavily impacted by yesterday’s layoffs. Each team lost at least two team members.

The network side was particularly affected — including NSS, ECC, Load Balancing, DNS, Tools Team. These are core operational functions!

Each Data Center team (RUTH, GTDC, MWDC, SWDC, and 390G) also lost two team members. These teams were already lean. With this level of reduction, the remaining staff will be operating under sustained pressure, and workload sustainability is a legitimate concern.

#FTP