Several tech companies have revealed plans for a new round of Bay Area layoffs, a fresh economic upheaval that’s poised to erase thousands of technology jobs in the region, according to official state labor reports.
Cruise, Salesforce, Walmart, Asana, Okta, Infineon Technologies, Renesas Electronics and Workday are the tech companies that sent WARN notices last week to the state Employment Development Department.
The job cuts disclosed so far in 2025 total more than 2,000, this news organization’s compilation of the EDD WARN letters shows. The job cuts revealed in February alone top 1,700.
Here are some details of recent tech industry job cuts in the Bay Area. These all involve WARN notices received in February by EDD:
The tech companies all described the job cuts as permanent, according to the various WARN notices.
The year appears to be off to a rocky start for Bay Area tech workers, based on the current pace of staffing reductions compared to recent periods.
During the July-through-September third quarter of 2024, companies revealed plans to slash just over 2,300 tech jobs in the Bay Area. In the October-through-December fourth quarter of 2024, tech job cuts in the Bay Area topped 2,600.
The 2,086 layoffs of Bay Area tech workers that have been disclosed over the first five weeks of 2025 are already approaching the totals for each of the last two quarters.
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