Category: Layoffs and Closures

Sixty-seven workers at the downtown Dallas Neiman Marcus store will lose their jobs when the location shuts its doors for good on Sept. 30, 2026. Saks Global, the parent company operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, filed the required layoff notice with the state on June 12, setting a firm deadline for the flagship store’s…

Nearly 250 workers at the Frito-Lay plant in Rancho Cucamonga, California, are losing their jobs as the snack giant shuts down a facility that operated for close to 35 years. The closure, which unfolded in stages beginning in mid-2025, marks the end of a site long associated with the production of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and…

Cisco Systems plans to eliminate nearly 4,000 jobs across its workforce, with the first confirmed batch affecting 471 positions in California. The cuts are tied to a broader corporate shift toward artificial intelligence spending, a move that puts thousands of workers on notice while the company redirects capital. The timing of the disclosure, filed alongside…

British American Tobacco announced plans to eliminate 9,000 positions, roughly one in five of its workforce, in a restructuring the company tied directly to artificial intelligence adoption. The cuts represent one of the largest single workforce reductions in the tobacco sector’s recent history, arriving as traditional cigarette sales continue to shrink and pressure mounts on…

Blue Diamond Growers plans to shut down its longtime Sacramento almond processing plant, a move that will eliminate roughly 600 jobs at a facility that has operated for more than a century. The cooperative filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification with the state, triggering a 60-day countdown for affected workers and putting Sacramento County…

U.S. employers announced 45,849 job cuts in June, a 53% drop from May’s 97,006 and the lowest monthly total since December 2025. The sharp pullback arrived as artificial intelligence held its position as the top cited reason for workforce reductions for the fourth straight month, raising a pointed question: does the cooldown signal genuine labor-market…

At Home, the home decor superstore chain, is shutting down 32 locations across the country as its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case accelerates. The closures are split into two waves: an initial round of 26 stores followed by six more, with liquidation firm Hilco Consumer-Retail managing the wind-down sales at each site. The staggered approach raises…

Roughly 15,000 workers at Verizon and a comparable number at Microsoft have lost their jobs in 2026, as two of America’s largest employers shed management and engineering roles in rapid succession. Verizon cut more than 13,000 non-union positions, while Microsoft eliminated thousands across multiple rounds. The scale and timing of these reductions raise a pointed…

Amazon has eliminated roughly 16,000 corporate positions so far this year across two rounds of cuts, according to the Associated Press, which attributed the figure to a blog post by Beth Galetti, the company’s senior vice president of people experience and technology. The reductions follow an October 2025 announcement that about 14,000 corporate roles would…

Roughly 27,000 workers have lost their jobs at Intel across overlapping rounds of cuts that began in 2024 and continued into 2026, making the chipmaker’s restructuring one of the deepest workforce reductions in modern tech history. The company’s own quarterly filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission trace a clear line from announced targets to…