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 this week to the state Employment Development Department.
Infineon Technologies office on Champion Court in north San Jose, seen in 2022. (Google Maps)
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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 the state EDD:
— Cruise, an autonomous vehicle company, 739 job cuts affecting workers in San Francisco, Sunnyvale and South San Francisco. The reductions are scheduled for April 5.
— Workday, a cloud-based software company, 617 staffing reductions in Pleasanton. The cutbacks are due to occur April 6.
— Salesforce, a cloud-based software firm, 153 layoffs in San Francisco. The downsizing is anticipated to take place April 25.
— Walmart, a retailing titan, 77 job cuts affecting software, tech and e-commerce workers in San Bruno. The reductions are slated to occur June 13.
— Asana, a software company, 77 layoffs in San Francisco. The cutbacks occurred on Feb. 4.
— Okta, a cloud services software firm, 56 staffing reductions in San Francisco. The reductions are scheduled for April 8.
— Infineon Technologies, Germany’s largest semiconductor maker, 33 job cuts in San Jose. The layoffs are anticipated to transpire on Feb. 14.
— Renesas, a semiconductor company, three layoffs in San Jose. The downsizing is due to occur on March 16.
Salesforce office tower in San Francisco, 2022. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
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.
