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SF Bay Area layoffs, tracked in full.

SF Bay Area has seen 286K job cuts across 511 tracked rounds since January 2020 — roughly 34.4% of all layoffs in our global dataset. The last 12 months alone saw 64K layoffs.

Last updated
City snapshot
286K
people laid off since Jan 2020
Companies tracked
204
active + historical
Rounds
511
total events
Top industry
Big Tech
49% of cuts
Global city rank
#1
by total headcount
Total since 2020
All time
286K
Across 511 roundsRank #1
Last 12 months
Recent
64K
↓ 71% YoY
Companies tracked
Breadth
204
across 8 industriesBig Tech leads
Global city rank
vs cities
#1
34.4% of global totalof 137 cities
By industry · SF Bay Area· Since 2020

Which industries cut deepest.

Big Tech
52 ROUNDS
49% of SF Bay Area cuts
97,495
PEOPLE
Fintech
69 ROUNDS
12%
23,172
PEOPLE
Semiconductors
13 ROUNDS
10%
19,321
PEOPLE
Cloud Infrastructure
12 ROUNDS
9%
18,153
PEOPLE
Hardware
14 ROUNDS
8%
16,718
PEOPLE
Ride-hailing
8 ROUNDS
5%
9,744
PEOPLE
Enterprise SaaS
28 ROUNDS
4%
7,741
PEOPLE
Social Media
14 ROUNDS
4%
7,535
PEOPLE
Top companies · SF Bay Area

Where the cuts landed.

Top companies
#01
Meta
BIG TECH · 12 ROUNDS
35,700
#02
Oracle
BIG TECH · 8 ROUNDS
31,032
#03
Salesforce
BIG TECH · 10 ROUNDS
16,352
#04
Intel
SEMICONDUCTORS · 5 ROUNDS
15,746
#05
Cisco
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE · 5 ROUNDS
14,521
#06
Google
BIG TECH · 17 ROUNDS
13,697
#07
HP
HARDWARE · 2 ROUNDS
8,000
Recent events · SF Bay Area· Latest

The latest SF Bay Area layoffs.

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Severity
Event
Location · When
Headcount
Source
Severe
M
Meta
Meta Layoffs — 2026-04-17
SF Bay Area ·
8,000
reuters.com ↗
Low
E
Eventbrite
Eventbrite Layoffs — 2026-04-13
SF Bay Area ·
—
reuters.com ↗
High
G
GoPro
GoPro Layoffs — 2026-04-07
SF Bay Area ·
145
wsj.com ↗
Severe
B
Bolt
Bolt Layoffs — 2026-04-05
SF Bay Area ·
—
pymnts.com ↗
Low
M
Meta
Meta Layoffs — 2026-04-02
SF Bay Area ·
200
sfchronicle.com ↗
Severe
O
Oracle
Oracle Layoffs — 2026-03-31
SF Bay Area ·
30,000
cnbc.com ↗
Moderate
M
Meta
Meta Layoffs — 2026-03-26
SF Bay Area ·
700
nytimes.com ↗
Low
Z
Zendesk
Zendesk Layoffs — 2026-03-24
SF Bay Area ·
100
Internal memo
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