More than 800 workers — including hundreds in the tech sector — are facing layoffs in the Bay Area, according to notices received by the state employment department so far this month.
Among a long list of businesses to file WARN notices with the state are Auris Health and Verb Surgical, both Johnson & Johnson-owned medical robotics companies. The employers are cutting 292 and 47 positions, respectively, in late April at locations in Redwood City and Santa Clara.
Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive is laying off 240 people in Palo Alto by mid-April, according to the state’s WARN report.
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Other Bay Area layoffs include Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, which is cutting 112 people by early May in Mountain View, and Embark Trucks, which builds software for self-driving trucks and plans to lay off 109 people out of San Francisco within a similar timeframe, the WARN report stated.
Clif Bar & Co. will terminate 34 people in Oakland, also in early May, according to the report.
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Zoom, which laid off 199 workers in February out of San Jose as part of the termination of 1,300 employees, was listed on the WARN report as of early March, as was frozen food manufacturer Ajinomoto Foods North America, which eliminated 48 employees last month in Hayward.
The latest cuts follow a barrage of layoffs across the tech sector, including 12,000 earlier this year at Google. The mass terminations began in late 2022, when Twitter and Meta each laid off thousands of workers.
Further south, the Los Angeles area is seeing layoffs as well. Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive is laying off 239 in Orange County on the same timeline as the Palo Alto job cuts, according to the state’s WARN report.
American General Life Insurance Co. will eliminate 163 people out of Woodland Hills as of May 1, while GEO Secure Services, a prison solutions company, will cut 112 workers by mid-April in Adelanto, the report said.
COR Restaurant Services is temporarily closing in Northridge, affecting 85 jobs as of early May, according to the report, and Cerebral, an online mental health provider, is laying off 31 employees by April 30 out of Walnut.
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