#layoffs

Rackspace is implementing layoffs targeting legacy service delivery functions. The company's board approved this plan on June 10. These actions align with Rackspace's pivot towards AI. The company expects to realize $75 million to $85 million in annualized savings. This strategic shift aims to streamline operations.

San Antonio, Texas

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2026/06/16/rackspace-slashes-local-workforce.html

Citibank announced 68 additional layoffs in New Jersey. These job cuts will occur in Bergen and Hudson counties. The layoffs are scheduled to take place on June 28. This follows a February notice affecting 141 Citibank employees. Other New Jersey employers also filed recent layoff notices.

https://www.nj.com/business/2026/06/nj-bank-announces-more-layoffs-as-job-cuts-top-200-this-year.html

As surplus notices come out today, post your name and organization in this thread. If you know of anyone affected, help sign them up so a support system can be established. Best of luck to everyone!

Artlist, an Israeli creative technology company, plans to lay off approximately 200 employees. This reduction represents 40% of its 500-person workforce. The company attributes the layoffs to a strategic reorganization towards an AI-native operating model. Artlist aims to become a flatter, faster, and more autonomous organization. These changes occur despite the company surpassing $300 million in annual recurring revenue and achieving 50% year-over-year growth.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/xrqudqiq6

Robinhood announced layoffs affecting 10% of its full-time employees. This reduction impacts approximately 290 workers. The company aims to streamline its organization and improve performance. Robinhood expects to incur $28 million in restructuring charges. The company stated this action comes from a position of business strength.

https://qz.com/robinhood-layoffs-workforce-reduction-061626

If I accept the VSP, do I have a better chance of being accepted then if I were to accept on Jul 1?

Somebody asked this in another thread with no answer so far. I'm hoping somebody here might know since I'm curious about it as well.

Texas

• Saks Global is cutting 67 workers in downtown Dallas, Texas through the closure of the Neiman Marcus flagship store, with keywords including retail, store closure, restructuring, and cost cutting.
• El Paso ISD is cutting about 249-250 workers in El Paso, Texas under financial exigency, with keywords including education, budget deficit, declining enrollment, and funding cuts.
• Bell Textron is cutting 285 workers in Amarillo, Texas and implementing furloughs, with keywords including aerospace, production transition, cost reduction, and restructuring.
• BSA Health System has announced layoffs affecting about 60 workers in Amarillo, Texas, with keywords including healthcare, workforce reduction, expenses, and restructuring.
• MW Components is cutting 53 workers at a Houston, Texas fastener plant, with keywords including manufacturing, plant operations, WARN notice, and restructuring.
• Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake is cutting 65 workers in Houston, Texas during a hotel renovation, with keywords including hospitality, renovation, closure, and workforce reduction.
• Toshiba International has announced layoffs in Houston, Texas, with keywords including manufacturing, WARN filing, restructuring, and cost reduction.
• Dow is reducing workforce positions in Texas facilities as part of a 4,500-job global restructuring, with keywords including chemicals, transformation plan, efficiency, and cost cutting.

California

• Centria Autism is permanently cutting 48 workers in Fresno, California, with keywords including autism services, healthcare, WARN notice, and workforce reduction.
• Ubisoft is cutting 93 workers in San Francisco, California, with keywords including gaming, restructuring, publishing, and cost reduction.
• ServiceNow is cutting 63 workers in San Diego, California, with keywords including software, workforce reduction, restructuring, and technology.
• Gallo is cutting 20 workers in Lodi, California, with keywords including wine production, manufacturing, operations, and workforce reduction.
• Yolo County is cutting 26 workers in California while eliminating additional vacant positions, with keywords including government, budget deficit, workforce reduction, and cost savings.
• California Academy of Sciences employees are facing layoffs in San Francisco, California, with keywords including nonprofit, museum, budget concerns, and workforce reduction.
• Palo Alto hotel workers were laid off and replaced by contractors in Palo Alto, California, with keywords including hospitality, outsourcing, staffing changes, and workforce reduction.
• ABA Centers of America has conducted layoffs in California locations, with keywords including behavioral health, autism services, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Comprehensive Autism Center has announced layoffs in Temecula, California, with keywords including behavioral health, therapy services, cost pressures, and workforce reduction.
• Meta-related catering contractor Lavish Roots is cutting 263 workers in Burien-linked California support operations, with keywords including contract loss, food services, Meta, and workforce reduction.

Tennessee

• CACI is cutting 75 workers at Millington Naval Base in Tennessee, with keywords including defense contracting, military support, WARN notice, and workforce reduction.
• Memphis Light Gas and Water eliminated jobs in Memphis, Tennessee through restructuring, with keywords including utilities, modernization, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Hollywood Feed is cutting 20 corporate staff positions in Memphis, Tennessee, with keywords including retail, headquarters, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• WK Kellogg is cutting workers in Memphis, Tennessee after a plant shutdown, with keywords including food manufacturing, facility closure, WARN notice, and layoffs.

Pennsylvania

• UPMC is cutting about 200 workers and eliminating 300 open positions across Pennsylvania, with keywords including healthcare, efficiency, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• JBS is cutting nearly 1,500 workers through the closure of its Souderton, Pennsylvania beef plant, with keywords including food processing, plant closure, manufacturing, and layoffs.
• Chandler Hall staff in Newtown, Pennsylvania could face layoffs following a sale, with keywords including senior care, ownership change, restructuring, and potential layoffs.
• Community Healthlink is cutting 127 workers in Massachusetts-linked regional healthcare operations, with keywords including healthcare, closure, WARN notice, and workforce reduction.

Minnesota

• Mankato Clinic is cutting nearly 100 workers in Mankato, Minnesota, with keywords including healthcare, rising costs, workforce reduction, and restructuring.

Florida

• Sanitas Medical Centers is cutting 211 healthcare jobs across Florida locations, with keywords including healthcare, restructuring, clinic operations, and workforce reduction.
• ARC-Southeast has begun layoffs in Georgia and Florida regional operations, with keywords including nonprofit, reproductive health, funding gap, and workforce reduction.

Illinois

• Hawthorne Race Course warned of 290 potential layoffs in Illinois, with keywords including gaming, horse racing, WARN notice, and potential closure.

Iowa

• Whirlpool is cutting 288 workers at its Amana, Iowa facility, with keywords including manufacturing, second-shift elimination, appliances, and workforce reduction.
• Iowa state IT workers are facing layoffs tied to outsourcing plans, with keywords including government, technology, outsourcing, and workforce reduction.

Oregon

• Portland State University is issuing faculty layoff notices amid a $35 million budget deficit in Oregon, with keywords including higher education, budget cuts, faculty, and workforce reduction.
• Portland Public Schools employees are facing layoffs in Oregon, with keywords including education, staffing reductions, budget pressures, and labor dispute.

Washington

• SJC Health & Community Services is reducing staff on San Juan Island, Washington after grant funding cuts, with keywords including nonprofit, healthcare, grants, and workforce reduction.
• Eko has announced layoffs at its Bentonville-linked regional operations affecting Washington-connected workers, with keywords including manufacturing, restructuring, workforce reduction, and operations.
• Lavish Roots is cutting 263 workers in Washington after losing a Meta contract, with keywords including catering, contract loss, food services, and workforce reduction.

Colorado

• CAE is closing operations in Pueblo, Colorado and cutting workers, with keywords including aviation training, facility closure, defense, and layoffs.

Ohio

• Cleveland Metropolitan School District employees are facing layoffs in Ohio, with keywords including education, staffing reductions, budget pressures, and workforce reduction.

Missouri

• Missouri Department of Conservation is cutting 106 positions in Missouri, with keywords including government, conservation, budget pressures, and workforce reduction.

Maryland

• University System of Maryland institutions are conducting layoffs affecting AFSCME-represented employees, with keywords including higher education, union opposition, restructuring, and workforce reduction.

Vermont

• UVM Health Network is conducting another round of layoffs in Vermont, with keywords including healthcare, budget gap, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Burlington adopted a budget eliminating vacant positions while avoiding layoffs, with keywords including municipal government, vacancies, fiscal sustainability, and layoffs avoided.

New Jersey

• Citibank is cutting 68 workers in Bergen and Hudson counties, New Jersey, with keywords including banking, workforce reduction, restructuring, and WARN notice.

Massachusetts

• Fall River Public Schools issued layoff notices to educators in Massachusetts, with keywords including education, staffing reductions, budget pressures, and workforce reduction.
• Community Healthlink is closing and cutting 127 workers in Massachusetts, with keywords including behavioral health, closure, WARN notice, and workforce reduction.
• Boston city departments face potential layoffs under budget changes, with keywords including municipal government, budget debate, transportation, and workforce reduction.

New Mexico

• Lovelace Health System is cutting 43 workers in New Mexico, with keywords including healthcare, administrative roles, policy pressures, and workforce reduction.

Arkansas

• Eko has announced layoffs at its Bentonville facility in Arkansas, with keywords including manufacturing, restructuring, operations, and workforce reduction.

Connecticut

• Stamford Public Schools is cutting educators and reassigning staff in Connecticut, with keywords including education, enrollment decline, layoffs, and labor dispute.

Multi-State: Texas and Tennessee

• Ardent-owned health systems announced layoffs in Texas and New Mexico operations, with keywords including healthcare, rising costs, restructuring, and workforce reduction.

Multi-State: Pennsylvania and Maryland

• General Dynamics Information Technology warned that 174 Pentagon workers in Virginia-linked federal operations could face layoffs, with keywords including defense, federal contracting, WARN notice, and workforce reduction.

Company-wide/Location Not Specified

• Robinhood is cutting about 290 workers or 10% of its workforce, with keywords including fintech, flattening management, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Rivian is cutting hundreds of workers affecting less than 2% of staff, with keywords including electric vehicles, efficiency, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Target is cutting 500 workers, with keywords including retail, leadership changes, supply chain, and workforce reduction.
• Rackspace is cutting 15% of its workforce, with keywords including cloud computing, AI strategy, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Salesforce is conducting another round of layoffs, with keywords including AI, software, Agentforce, and workforce reduction.
• Centene is offering broad employee buyouts and may conduct layoffs if targets are not met, with keywords including health insurance, cost cutting, voluntary separation, and restructuring.
• NPR eliminated positions including climate desk staff, with keywords including media, newsroom restructuring, climate coverage, and layoffs.
• NBCUniversal eliminated six positions through a studio merger, with keywords including entertainment, consolidation, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Artlist is cutting 200 jobs or about 40% of its workforce, with keywords including media technology, AI, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Dow is cutting 4,500 workers globally, with keywords including chemicals, transformation plan, efficiency, and restructuring.
• Neumora is cutting 35% of staff after clinical trial failures, with keywords including biotechnology, dr-g development, cost savings, and workforce reduction.
• Oracle is continuing technology-sector layoffs, with keywords including software, AI, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Teva is cutting 250 workers in its API business, with keywords including pharmaceuticals, restructuring, divestiture, and workforce reduction.
• Genentech has conducted another round of research and development layoffs, with keywords including biotechnology, restructuring, executives, and workforce reduction.
• Meta previously cut about 8,000 workers and reassigned employees during AI restructuring, with keywords including artificial intelligence, reorganization, workforce reduction, and technology.
• JBS is restructuring meat-processing operations resulting in more than 2,000 combined layoffs, with keywords including food processing, plant closures, manufacturing, and workforce reduction.

Potential/Unconfirmed Layoffs

• Xbox is preparing significant layoffs and possible studio closures under a business reset, with keywords including gaming, restructuring, budget cuts, and potential layoffs.
• Ubisoft is closing studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade and could eliminate up to 380 positions globally, with keywords including gaming, studio closures, consultation, and potential layoffs.
• Sparhawk Trucking warned workers not to rely on continued operations as bankruptcy proceedings continue, with keywords including trucking, Chapter 11, WARN warning, and potential layoffs.
• Hawthorne Race Course warned of 290 possible layoffs if a sale does not occur, with keywords including gaming, horse racing, contingency planning, and potential layoffs.
• St. Landry Parish Schools warned that layoffs and school closures may be necessary, with keywords including education, financial crisis, debt, and potential layoffs.
• Chandler Hall staff could face layoffs after a facility ownership transfer, with keywords including senior care, sale process, restructuring, and potential layoffs.
• Centene signaled layoffs may follow buyouts if participation targets are missed, with keywords including health insurance, voluntary separation, restructuring, and potential layoffs.

National/Other Commentary and Analysis

• Multiple reports discussed AI-driven job cuts, technology-sector layoff trends, labor-market impacts, and workforce restructuring without identifying a specific layoff event.
• Several articles analyzed public-school layoff warnings, healthcare workforce reductions, and broader economic trends rather than a single employer action.
• Commentary pieces examined Meta, AI adoption, unemployment trends, and future workforce disruption without reporting a new specific layoff event.

If the rumors are true why are we need seeing more posts and activity around this? We usually start hearing “insider” information about meetings, lists, numbers, etc. Is it really happening? Spill the tea

Curious whether this week’s announcement felt completely out of the blue for most teams, or if others have already been seeing changes over the last 6–12 months (leadership departures, consultant involvement, role reviews, org changes, layoffs, etc.). Trying to understand whether these conversations have been happening broadly across Centene or only in certain areas.

Dont comment to say everyone will be hit. Comment your insider details on what you have heard so far. My PL and their director claim to have no clue and promise to be transparent. Someone has to know something.

Frontier employees will not be impacted in upcoming RIF’s for their first 12 months as a VZ employee.

Is there a particular day of the week when layoffs occur? I heard they typically occur on a Thursday, but that could be wrong. I think something's brewing in my part of the company.

I work in customer service and will be starting a new role in authorizations. I wonder if I'm safe.

It's amusing reading all this speculation when we all know deep down that nothing will change. The same thing that always happens will happen again. We'll see more layoffs, more outsourcing, more "do more with less" rhetoric, and more of the same for employees. Nobody gives a damn about us or improving our situation, least of all any CEO.

As in, don't fire the people who are doing their jobs well. VZ has record profits, but it makes bad decisions at the top creating lots of debt.

Does anyone know or heard a number on how much Centene is trying to downsize? Ive seen articles but they are very hush hush about the target number... only that our membership has decreased by 6%.

We are exhausted.

The people actually trying to keep up are exhausted. The rate of change in our platform, the multiple changes in strategy and direction for messaging, the rate of innovation around AI, middle management that lacks empathy and communication skills, the upcoming move to Google, the constant loud demand to do MORE FASTER with no end in sight. And now rumors of more layoffs to come.

We are at our breaking point. Yes we need to move fast to keep up in the market, but give us some damn grace and maybe a week long shut down to catch our breath. We are only human.

Funny, T-Mobile just did a hackathon... wonder how employee spirits were

Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom.

Employees have been roiling from multiple rounds of major layoffs. Last month alone, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company laid off a whopping 8,000 workers, roughly ten percent of its workforce, as part of its chaotic refocusing efforts around AI.

Many of those who remain are now forced to perform the grunt work to train AI models, weekly busywork that's already driving some of them up the wall, as Wired reports.

In an internal memo to employees on Friday, Zuckerberg attempted to lift their spirits in what appears to be a notable failure to read the room. Specifically, the billionaire promised to host a companywide AI hackathon in July — only to get brutally shut down by workers who were in no mood for such a thing.

Meta has regularly hosted hackathons in the past, but given last month's layoff announcement, the reception was extremely chilly.

"I'm literally preoccupied with keeping the lights on for my team," one employee wrote in an internal message quoted by Wired. "I have no incentive to participate, let alone have the time to do so."

"I'm not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore," another employee added, pointing out that "people are being asked to cover more work with less support while their colleagues get laid off."

"I've participated in previous hackathons, but this no longer feels like an option alongside pod sprints in my corner of the company," one worker wrote.

Zuckerberg offered employees access to permanent desks, a symbolic gesture that unintentionally illustrated how expendable many of them had become. Many employees at Meta have been working from "hot desks," a controversial scheme involving multiple workers sharing the same desks.

For all its employees' pain and suffering, Meta has surprisingly little to show. The company continues to trip over its own feet, struggling to release impressive new AI models as its competitors pull ahead further in the ongoing AI race.

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"Given the complexity of these changes, we've made mistakes and will almost certainly make more," he admitted.

The long awaited day is almost here. They have us walking on pins and needles all week.

https://easternherald.com/2026/06/13/chevron-8000-layoffs-hess-acquisition-2026/

Give us the scoop on Lyons. Already sent corporate email to all of Truist saying hello. More info coming soon. We are ecstatic to get rid of our current CEO to a forced retirement.
What does Mike think about hybrid. Working from home 2-3 days a week?
From the Fiserv message board, looks like he joined Fiserv to be an axe man, now he is dragging his axe out to the next victim (Truist bank).
Does he realize most companies, especially in the financial sector are very top heavy.
Does he get rid of management, or the people at the bottom doing all the work.
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Two to three months until they think Cognizant will be ready to start taking over activities in Digital, and we should expect some roles to be displaced. "Some of it will be a bummer," says RK.

Hearing about layoffs and people being notified in at least 2 groups. What is the extent?

I had a dr appt yesterday. He asked who I work for and how it’s going. I said EDJ and that it’s not what it used to be and is getting progressively worse. He said he’s actually heard that from several patients lately.

So, word is getting out in the community! I figured it must be given the FA losses, and nna and auc missing goals by a long shot, but this was interesting anecdotal evidence!

Centene offering buyout plans to its employees due to low Medicaid enrollment.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/centene-offers-most-staff-buyouts-after-obamacare-member-losses-bloomberg-news-2026-06-15/

I have a very fuzzy charter right now. I feel I was left behind to ensure nothing breaks, but with each day it seems my work is not likely to meet the never ending evaluation. All this to say, I don't really have a job right now. I'm in limbo.

Has there been any word on July round of layoffs or cuts? Did all 3000 employees get notified before? Or will some of them be notified before fiscal year end?

I’ve been here a year and a half no email yet…

If Kodak was able to go through bankruptcy and reinvent itself so can Xerox. Just remember, Kodak in its hayday had 145,000 employees, today it has 3,500.

Anyone worried about payday this week. Got a bad feeling about it.

Just heard that “Scribe Optimize” (a third party AI company) is going to be implemented across a few teams. Being sold as a way to optimize how long it takes to do tasks by tracking each employee on how long it takes them to do something and if they’re faster, then to teach others how they did it faster.

Soooo definitely just a new way to track employees and lay more folks off.

• 6%

https://www.tipranks.com/news/the-fly/centene-staff-buyouts-unliklely-related-to-wakely-data-says-barclays-thefly-news

Sarah’s message was essentially: ‘when membership shifts, the organization must shift too.’

Barclays may be right about Wakely. It still doesn’t explain the scale of the restructuring. We all know layoffs have been happening every month, largely in the shadows.

Maybe the leaders can’t find their as--s with both hands. In any event, they’re almost certainly not being truthful.

Lock in guys, lock in.

Any one know specifically what departments are being considered? I was laid off during the UnitedHealthcare layoffs back in September of 2024. Centene hired me after a long 7 month search and now I can’t believe im having to go through this again! i I thought centene was going to be my long term after such a devastating time and now this.

You have already branded yourself Verizon - sleazy, money grubbing sociopaths. This is regarding every person involved in firing people who did deserve it. Just following orders is NOT an excuse. Find another job instead of enabling grifters.

Idk why no one read or listened to the “London Calling” episode…. VSP offers expire 7/1. They’ll base the number of the layoff based on how many people took VSP’s. Everyone who is gonna be laid off will be notified by the beginning of August. Emails with offers are going to most everyone, you’ll get an email at some point today. It’s in waves. If you’re already having a foot out the door, take the offer and ready to move on from Centene, take the offer.

Lmao Mike came in, penalized the teams leaving hard workers out of their jobs and sending layoffs. Now he is out in 13 months tell me he didn’t do well in his job. The leadership changes that took place lately and continuous after Frank left clearly tells that the company isn’t doing so good, it’s like having puppets in positions that don’t make sense.

I got my VSP offer this morning and am considering it. I'm trying to figure out what I would get if I don't accept it, and get laid off instead. Does anyone know what the typical severance is during these rounds of layoffs? I'd like to compare it to my VSP offer.

Heard 15 more were let go today in consulting in HQ same, few hrs access available to sas. Apply to jobs from sas.com

No email yet. Does that mean I’m safe? Are emails being rolled out thru the day? I’m mid age, 4-5 years in, and nobody special so wondering why I’m ineligible if that’s the case.