LinkedIn plans to lay off 606 California workers this summer, according to new state filings that show the local impact of the Microsoft-owned company’s latest round of job cuts.
The layoffs are scheduled to take effect July 13, according to notices filed with California’s Employment Development Department.
Most of the cuts are in the Bay Area. LinkedIn plans to lay off 108 employees at its San Francisco office, 59 in Sunnyvale, 352 in Mountain View and 66 remote employees tied to Mountain View, according to the filings.
The company also filed a notice for 21 layoffs in Carpinteria, in Santa Barbara County.
The filings follow an internal memo last week from LinkedIn CEO Daniel Shapero, who told employees the company would cut jobs across its Global Business Organization, marketing, engineering and product teams worldwide.
In the memo, reported by Business Insider, Shapero said LinkedIn needed to “operate more profitably.”
“We need to reinvent how we work, with agile teams focused on our highest priorities, and by shifting investments toward areas such as infrastructure to fulfill our mission and vision over the long term,” Shapero wrote. “This requires hard prioritization and tradeoffs.”
Reuters reported last week that the Sunnyvale company planned to cut about 5% of its global workforce, which would amount to roughly 875 jobs based on LinkedIn’s reported headcount of about 17,500 employees.
“As part of our regular business planning, we’ve implemented organizational changes to best position ourselves for future success,” a LinkedIn spokesperson said in a statement.
The cuts come despite recent growth at LinkedIn. Microsoft said last month that LinkedIn revenue rose 12% year over year in the quarter that ended March 31.
The layoffs also come less than a month after a leadership change at LinkedIn. Shapero, previously the company’s chief operating officer, became CEO in April and reports to Ryan Roslansky, who now oversees LinkedIn and Microsoft Office.