Cisco’s mass layoff to affect hundreds of Bay Area tech employees

The company will lay off 227 San Jose employees and 123 Milpitas employees by Oct. 16, 2023, according to documents from the California Employment Development Department. 

The 350 employees were notified of the eliminations on July 17, 2023, and were able to choose Aug. 31 or Oct. 16 as their last day of work, the documents indicate. Though the employees were notified in July, the layoff notices were received by the EDD on Tuesday.

Nearly 50 positions at the Milpitas facility located at 560 McCarthy Blvd. were cut, as well as about 70 positions at the San Jose facility at 170 West Tasman Drive. The largest number of layoffs at both South Bay offices were software engineering positions, according to the WARN notice. 

The news comes after the company cut nearly 700 positions in the Bay Area earlier this year, including 70 layoffs at its San Francisco facility, for “business restructuring,” SFGATE previously reported. In a November 2022 EDD notice, Cisco said it planned to cut 4,000 employees around the world. 

Google also announced it would lay off hundreds of employees this week, delivering the news on Wednesday. Other mass layoffs recently in the Bay Area include Intel, Wish and LinkedIn.

According to data from Layoffs.fyi, a website that has documented tech company layoffs since the COVID-19 pandemic began, 1,012 tech companies globally have let workers go this year, totaling 235,639 employees.  

Cisco did not immediately respond to SFGATE’s request for comment.