Layoffs in United States

ZipRecruiter, an AI-driven recruitment technology company, is shutting down its Israeli R&D center in Tel Aviv, resulting in the layoff of approximately 80 employees. The closure is part of broader cost-cutting measures amid a challenging labor market and economic pressures. In the second quarter of 2025, the company reported a net loss of about $9.5 million despite a slight revenue increase, citing rising expenses and the need to maintain competitive investments in technology. The Israeli center, which focused on software development, data, and AI research, was a key part of their operations, and this move reflects the firm's efforts to streamline operations globally.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, laid off approximately 500 employees on its data annotation team on Friday, September 13, 2024. This reduction represents about one-third of that team, which is the company's largest and is crucial for training its Grok AI chatbot. The layoffs are part of a strategic shift where xAI is prioritizing the hiring of specialist AI tutors over generalist roles. Affected workers were notified via email and will be paid through their contract end date or November 30, but lost immediate access to company systems. Concurrently, the company announced plans to significantly expand its team of specialist tutors.

Verbit, an AI-powered transcription startup, has laid off 22 employees, including 10 in Israel, as part of a streamlining process tied to its AI transition and organizational adjustments. This reduction, announced on September 10, 2025, affects about 4.4% of its global workforce of approximately 500. The company, which has raised $600 million and serves major clients across various industries, has undergone multiple layoffs in recent years, reflecting ongoing shifts toward integrating artificial intelligence into its workflows.

Microsoft laid off 42 employees on 2025-09-08.

Scope3, a sustainability-focused adtech company with over 100 employees globally, conducted layoffs last week as part of a strategic reorganization to shift toward agentic advertising offerings. While the exact number of affected staffers was not disclosed, the cuts primarily impacted the commercial team responsible for revenue generation through sales and partnerships. The restructuring reflects the company's pivot to align its operations with new strategic priorities in the evolving digital advertising landscape.

Rivian, an electric vehicle manufacturer, laid off approximately 200 employees in September 2025, representing about 1.5% of its total workforce of nearly 15,000. The layoffs are part of broader industry adjustments as the company prepares for the expiration of federal EV tax credits, specifically the $7,500 incentive set to end under policy changes. This move reflects challenges in the EV market, including slowing demand and reduced government incentives, with other automakers like GM and Volkswagen also implementing job cuts. Rivian is concurrently focusing on launching more affordable models, such as the upcoming R2 SUV, to navigate the evolving economic landscape.

Salesforce laid off 262 employees on 2025-09-04.

Oracle laid off 254 employees on 2025-09-04.

Vimeo, the video hosting platform, laid off approximately 11% of its workforce in January 2023, affecting around 150 employees. This decision was part of a broader restructuring effort to streamline operations and reduce costs amid economic uncertainty. The layoffs followed a previous round of cuts in July 2022, reflecting ongoing challenges in the competitive tech and media industry. As a publicly traded company, Vimeo aimed to improve profitability and focus on core business areas, though specific details on the total employee count at the time were not fully disclosed in available reports.

Salesforce laid off 93 employees from its Seattle and Bellevue offices in late August, as part of a broader trend of tech industry workforce reductions. This cut represents a small fraction of its global workforce, which numbers in the tens of thousands. The layoffs occurred amid a company-wide push to adopt artificial intelligence, with CEO Marc Benioff stating that AI automation had already reduced support roles by 4,000. While Salesforce did not directly link these specific layoffs to AI, the move aligns with industry-wide cost-cutting and efficiency drives, as companies like Microsoft and Amazon also streamline operations, often citing economic pressures and strategic shifts toward AI. The software industry continues to see significant restructuring following pandemic-era hiring surges.

Oracle, the cloud computing giant based in Austin, Texas, has laid off 101 employees in the Seattle area, as disclosed in a state regulatory filing on Tuesday. This follows a previous round of 161 layoffs in August, reducing the company's local workforce from 3,900 employees earlier this year. These cuts are part of a broader trend in the tech industry, where companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and others have been streamlining their workforces to reallocate resources, often toward artificial intelligence initiatives, though Oracle has not specified the exact reason for its layoffs. The company's physical presence in Seattle and Bellevue has been shrinking, including office space reductions in 2023, reflecting a shift away from its once-expanding engineering hub in the region.

Oracle on 2025-09-02.

Salesforce has reduced its customer support workforce from 9,000 to 5,000 employees, a cut of 4,000 roles, as part of a strategic shift driven by AI adoption. This represents a significant downsizing within the support division, though the company's total employee count remains over 76,000. CEO Marc Benioff explained that AI agents, deployed through platforms like Agentforce, have enhanced productivity by efficiently handling sales leads and support cases, reducing the need for human staff. The transition, discussed publicly in late August 2025, reflects broader industry trends where AI integration is reshaping roles and management structures in the tech sector. While hundreds of affected employees were redeployed internally, the move underscores how AI advancements are directly impacting workforce composition at large-scale enterprise software companies like Salesforce.

Flip, a social commerce platform, has laid off a portion of its workforce as part of a restructuring effort to streamline operations and focus on core business priorities. While the exact number of employees affected and the percentage relative to the total workforce are not publicly disclosed, the move reflects broader challenges in the competitive e-commerce and social shopping industry. The layoffs occurred recently, with the company aiming to enhance efficiency and adapt to evolving market demands. Flip operates at a startup scale, leveraging video content to drive product discovery and purchases.

Rec Room laid off 141 employees on 2025-08-27.

Alphabet's life sciences unit Verily has laid off an unspecified number of staff and discontinued its long-running medical devices program as part of a strategic refocus. Announced internally on August 26, 2025, these cuts are a continuation of the company's efforts since 2023 to streamline operations, reduce costs, and narrow its focus towards AI and developing infrastructure for other companies. The decision to wind down the devices program, which included projects like a clinical study watch and a retinal camera, directly led to a significant portion of the layoffs. As a subsidiary of Alphabet operating in the healthcare and life sciences industry, Verily is taking these difficult steps to put itself on a faster path to sustained commercial success and eventual independence from its parent company.

Klaviyo on 2025-08-25.

Cisco, a major networking and telecommunications equipment company, is undergoing a significant workforce reduction. The company announced plans to lay off approximately 4,250 employees, which represents about 5% of its global workforce. This strategic restructuring, announced in February 2024, is part of a broader effort to reallocate resources towards key growth areas like artificial intelligence and software, while streamlining operations in a shifting market. The move reflects the ongoing adjustments within the tech industry as companies adapt to new economic and technological priorities.

Rental car startup Kyte, which once billed itself as a top competitor to Hertz, has completely shut down as of August 2025. The company, which had raised over $300 million and operated in 14 markets, entered receivership after failing to secure new financing and falling behind on loans, leading its main lender to repossess and liquidate its vehicle fleet. This follows a restructuring in 2024, when Kyte exited most U.S. cities and laid off staff after struggling to achieve profitability in several markets. While it sold its customer list to Turo in July 2025, many customers with prebooked trips are now seeking refunds. Founded in 2019, Kyte offered on-demand rental car deliveries and controlled its own fleet, positioning itself in the competitive transportation and mobility industry as a venture-backed startup.

Restaurant365, a leading Irvine-based restaurant technology provider, laid off approximately 100 employees, or 9% of its workforce, last month, reducing staff from 1,100 to 1,000. The cuts, which impacted all departments, were attributed to the company falling short of its aggressive growth targets for the year. Despite quadrupling revenue over the past four years and securing significant private funding that valued it over $1 billion, the company stated that controlling cash flow and progressing toward profitability necessitated the adjustments. This move highlights the competitive challenges within the restaurant tech sector, particularly for vendors serving large chain restaurants.

F5 laid off 106 employees representing approximately 2% of its workforce on 2025-08-13.

Oracle, a major software company now headquartered in Austin, Texas, has laid off 289 employees across three of its Bay Area offices in Pleasanton, Redwood City, and Santa Clara. The layoffs, effective October 13, were announced via WARN notices filed in mid-August. This includes 45 employees in Pleasanton, 143 in Redwood City, and 101 in Santa Clara. While Oracle has not officially stated the reason, the layoffs coincide with the company's recent announcements about accelerating its AI initiatives, including new AI-driven health records and partnerships for agentic AI. Despite these cuts, Oracle remains a significant employer in the region, with its Pleasanton office having 886 workers in 2024 and Redwood City listing it as the top employer in 2023 with over 3,700 employees.

US memory chipmaker Micron Technology began a new round of layoffs in mainland China in mid-August 2025, affecting hundreds of employees. The cuts, which are part of a global retreat from the unprofitable mobile NAND flash memory market, are expected to eliminate over 300 positions across the company's research and development, testing, and support facilities in cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Xi'an. The decision was driven by the challenging financial performance of mobile NAND products, used in smartphones and tablets, amid broader fluctuations in the semiconductor industry and ongoing US-China tensions. While the exact percentage of Micron's total workforce impacted was not disclosed, the company offered voluntary departure packages with generous compensation to affected staff in China.

Amdocs, a global provider of software and services to communications and media companies, is preparing for a new wave of layoffs expected to affect hundreds of employees as it centralizes its artificial intelligence strategy. The company announced the creation of a new GenAI & Data division on August 12, 2025, with the strategic goal of making AI an integral part of its operations. While the exact number of layoffs and the percentage of its total workforce are not officially confirmed, this move represents a shift from previous workforce adjustments, now directly driven by the generative AI revolution to reshape the company's structure and skills base.

Nextdoor laid off 67 employees representing approximately 12% of its workforce on 2025-08-07.

Peloton representing approximately 6% of its workforce on 2025-08-07.

Kaltura, a corporate video software company, has laid off 10% of its workforce, affecting about 70 employees out of 700, as part of its third round of job cuts since 2022. This streamlining effort, announced in August 2025, aims to reduce operating expenses by $8.5 million to push toward profitability, despite reporting improved revenue and initial AI product sales in its latest earnings. The publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of $262 million, continues to face stock price declines but maintains its sales and marketing budgets for growth.

Israeli-founded e-commerce unicorn Yotpo laid off approximately 200 employees in early August 2025, representing about 34% of its global workforce. This significant reduction is part of a major strategic overhaul where the company is refocusing on its core products—Reviews and Loyalty—and adopting an AI-first approach. As part of the restructuring, Yotpo is shutting down its Email and SMS marketing operations, selling that customer base to Attentive. The layoffs affected staff across its offices in Israel, Bulgaria, Poland, London, New York, and Australia, as the company aims to transform into a more focused and profitable, product-first organization.

In August 2025, just three weeks after acquiring the AI coding startup Windsurf, Cognition AI laid off 30 employees and offered buyouts to the roughly 200 remaining staff. This move, affecting a significant portion of the team, reveals that Cognition's primary interest was Windsurf's intellectual property rather than its talent, despite earlier assurances of retaining employees. The layoffs and stringent buyout conditions, including demands for over 80-hour work weeks, mark another turbulent chapter for Windsurf, which had previously faced a failed acquisition by OpenAI and a major talent exodus to Google.

Amazon is reorganizing its audio entertainment operations, consolidating production between its Wondery and Audible brands. This restructuring, announced in early August 2025, will result in about 100 layoffs. The move aims to streamline audio content across Amazon's vast media footprint, responding to the evolving podcast landscape with a shift toward more video-forward, creator-led content. As part of the changes, Wondery CEO Jen Sargent is exiting. The Wondery brand will continue focusing on celebrity-driven podcasts, while more narrative-driven series will shift to Audible. Amazon, a tech and e-commerce giant, acquired Wondery in 2020.

Israeli fintech unicorn Tipalti laid off dozens of employees in late July 2025, marking its second significant workforce reduction after cutting 123 roles in early 2023. The company, which currently employs about 1,000 people, is reorganizing its sales and development divisions. The sales team is shifting focus to mid-market clients while reducing exposure to smaller customers, and development teams are being streamlined due to a strategic pivot. Tipalti, a high-value startup in the financial technology sector, provides automated payment and financial operations solutions to thousands of businesses globally.

ConsenSys laid off 47 employees representing approximately 7% of its workforce on 2025-07-22.

Social media startup Zeen, formerly known as Landing, is shutting down entirely after failing to achieve sustainable growth, resulting in the layoff of its entire team. The company, which had raised $9 million in venture capital since its founding in 2019, confirmed the closure on July 21, 2025. Co-founder Miri Buckland stated that despite pivoting from a social collage app to a shoppable collage tool for creators, the business could not reach the necessary scale to remain viable as a VC-backed startup. This shutdown highlights the intense challenges faced by social media and creator economy startups in securing long-term profitability and investor support.

In early 2025, Detroit-based Rocket Companies, the parent of Rocket Mortgage, conducted a company-wide layoff affecting roughly 2% of its workforce. This translates to approximately 285 employees from a total of about 14,263. The cuts, which impacted roles in recruiting, product management, and software engineering, were attributed to streamlining efforts following the firm's $1.75 billion all-stock acquisition of real estate brokerage Redfin. The company stated the decision was part of a shift from deal-making to integration, aiming to build a more focused organization. Affected employees were offered a severance package including 12 weeks of base pay plus additional weeks based on tenure, extended health benefits, and career transition support.

Amazon on 2025-07-17.

In July 2025, Ami Colé, a venture-backed beauty brand focused on makeup for darker skin tones, announced it would permanently shut down by September. The company, which had raised over $3 million from investors like G9 Ventures and Greycroft, cited unsustainable market conditions and tensions between founder Diarrha NDiaye-Mbaye and investor expectations. Despite early success and celebrity endorsements, the four-year-old startup struggled with inconsistent retail sales and competition from larger brands. The closure reflects broader challenges for Black-founded startups that surged after 2020, as investor enthusiasm for diversity-focused ventures waned.

Israeli telehealth startup TytoCare is laying off approximately 35 employees, representing about 20% of its 160-person workforce, as part of a restructuring announced in July 2025. This marks the company's second round of layoffs since 2023. The move aims to streamline operations and redirect investment toward advancing its FDA-approved, AI-driven diagnostic capabilities. Concurrently, CEO and co-founder Dedi Gilad will transition to the chairman role, focusing on long-term strategy, while co-founder Ofer Tzadik will oversee daily operations. The company, which has raised $205 million, is also adjusting its sales model to focus its home-use product in the U.S. via partners.

Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, approximately 14% of its staff, and cutting ties with 500 global contractors. The layoffs are largely in its core data-labeling business, as the company pivots to focus on enterprise and government sales units, following Meta's investment and the departure of its CEO.

Lenovo laid off 100 employees representing approximately 3% of its workforce on 2025-07-16.

Jamf laid off 166 employees representing approximately 6% of its workforce on 2025-07-15.

Intel, the major semiconductor company, has significantly expanded its layoffs, now exceeding 5,000 employees across the United States as of mid-July 2025. This downsizing, part of a broader restructuring to reduce costs and simplify operations, more than doubled initial estimates in key locations. The cuts are concentrated in California and Oregon, affecting over 1,900 workers in Santa Clara and Folsom, and nearly 2,400 in Hillsboro. Additional layoffs occurred in Arizona and Texas. The company, aiming to become leaner and more efficient, began implementing these workforce reductions in July 2025.

TripleLift, a supply-side platform in the ad tech industry, laid off a double-digit percentage of its workforce, estimated at less than 20%, on Friday, July 11, 2025. The company, which had over 450 employees as of April, is undergoing restructuring under new CEO Dave Helmreich, who took over in February. This marks the third round of layoffs in five years, with pressure from majority shareholder Vista Equity Partners likely driving cost-cutting measures to boost profitability. The timing aligns with past leadership transitions, similar to cuts made under the previous CEO in early 2023.

Israeli industrial AI unicorn Augury is laying off about 60 employees, representing 18% of its global workforce of 345, as announced in July 2025. This marks the company's third round of layoffs, following previous cuts affecting around 100 staff. Despite raising $75 million in a Series F round just months earlier in February, which valued the company at over $1 billion, Augury stated the restructuring is intended to sharpen its focus and fuel its next growth phase. The Haifa-based company, which provides AI-driven machine health monitoring solutions to manufacturing plants, has seen significant revenue growth and customer expansion but is now adjusting its organizational structure to prioritize new roles and maintain its market leadership trajectory.

Indeed + Glassdoor laid off 1,300 employees on 2025-07-10.

Eigen Labs laid off 29 employees representing approximately 25% of its workforce on 2025-07-08.

Microsoft announced layoffs affecting approximately 9,000 employees on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, marking another significant workforce reduction for the tech giant. This cut represents less than 4% of its global workforce, which stood at 228,000 people as of June 2024. The move is part of ongoing organizational changes aimed at streamlining management layers and positioning the company for success in a dynamic marketplace, particularly within its gaming division. This follows several previous rounds of layoffs in recent years, including a cut of over 6,000 jobs in May 2025. Despite these reductions, Microsoft remains highly profitable, having reported strong quarterly earnings and record stock prices, as it continues to focus on growth areas like Azure cloud services.

Rivian, the electric vehicle manufacturer, has laid off approximately 140 employees, representing about 1% of its workforce, as part of ongoing efforts to improve operational efficiency ahead of the 2026 launch of its more affordable R2 SUV. The cuts, confirmed in late June 2025, primarily affected the manufacturing team, with the company citing the elimination of roles that created process inefficiencies. This follows previous workforce reductions in recent years. Rivian, which began 2025 with over 14,800 employees in North America and Europe, is encouraging affected staff to apply for other open positions within the company.

Bumble, the dating app company, is laying off approximately 240 employees, which represents 30% of its workforce. This significant restructuring, announced in a securities filing, is part of an effort to reconfigure its operating structure and optimize strategic priorities. The move is expected to result in $13 million to $18 million in charges this year but will save the company about $40 million annually. These savings are intended to be reinvested into new product and technology development. The announcement comes as Bumble's market value has sharply declined since its 2021 IPO, and follows the return of founder Whitney Wolfe Herd to the CEO role earlier this year. The layoffs were disclosed alongside an updated, slightly improved revenue forecast for the current quarter.

Microsoft on 2025-06-24.

Intel on 2025-06-24.