SAN JOSE — Bloom Energy has revealed plans to trim dozens more jobs in the Bay Area, cutbacks that have sent the green energy company’s local layoffs past the 100 mark, new official state labor agency filings show.
The company has now disclosed its decision to conduct at least two rounds of layoffs, according to WARN notices Bloom filed with the state Employment Development Department.
Bloom Energy has decided to chop 72 jobs in a fresh round of layoffs, the EDD WARN notices state.
Here are the details for the most recent cutbacks being orchestrated by Bloom Energy:
— 54 job cuts at the Bloom Energy headquarters in north San Jose’s Alviso district
— 11 layoffs in Sunnyvale
— 7 staffing reductions in Fremont
These job cuts were slated to become effective on or around Nov. 1, the WARN notices stated.
Bloom Energy’s prior layoff disclosures indicated the company had decided to chop 47 positions, affecting workers in Fremont and Sunnyvale. The previous Bloom Energy layoffs were scheduled for Oct. 23.
The two layoff rounds show that Bloom Energy has decided to cut 119 jobs in the Bay Area.
Over nearly two years covering all of 2022 and so far in 2023, tech companies have decided to chop more than 29,300 jobs in the Bay Area, according to this news organization’s analysis of WARN notices that tech companies have sent to the EDD.
About 10,400 of those tech industry layoffs in the Bay Area occurred in 2022. As of Nov. 1, tech companies have disclosed plans to slash about 18,900 jobs in the nine-county region.