{"id":376235,"date":"2026-06-26T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376235\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T20:05:10","slug":"cisco-to-lay-off-more-than-400-workers-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376235\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco to lay off more than 400 workers in California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

San Jos\u00e9 tech company Cisco plans to cut 471 workers in three Bay Area offices, according to layoff notices filed to a state agency.<\/p>\n

The company, which provides networking devices along with other services including video conferencing and cybersecurity, told employees in May that it was going to cut fewer than 4,000 jobs or less than 5% of its workforce. <\/p>\n

The notices, processed by the California Employment Development Department this week, provide more details about what jobs Cisco will cut in California. <\/p>\n

The artificial-intelligence boom has fueled more investments in data centers, commercial real estate and other areas. But advancements in AI tools have also been reshaping jobs, especially in Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the tech industry. <\/p>\n

Cisco\u2019s layoffs in California impacted workers in its San Jos\u00e9, Milpitas and San Francisco offices. The company cut a variety of roles in software engineering, product management, design, business operations and other areas, the notices show. <\/p>\n

Cisco said it didn\u2019t have anything additional to share beyond what it published in May about its restructuring plans. <\/p>\n

Tech companies<\/a> have been citing various reasons for layoffs including prioritizing investments in artificial intelligence. As workers use AI-powered tools to generate code, words and other content, some executives have said they don\u2019t need as many employees. There\u2019s also skepticism, though, about how big a role AI is playing at companies with a large amount of workers globally. <\/p>\n

From January to May, U.S. technology companies announced 123,653 cuts, up 66% from the same period in 2025, according to a June report<\/a> from global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The firm said that AI was the leading reason companies cited for cuts but it still isn\u2019t the \u201cjobpocalypse some predicted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meta, Snap, Block, Oracle and Amazon are among tech companies that have announced mass layoffs this year. <\/p>\n

Cisco markets itself as a company that \u201cprovides critical infrastructure for the AI era\u201d and has benefited from the AI boom, reaching a record revenue of $15.8 billion in the third quarter this year. The company\u2019s net income grew 35% to $3.4 billion year-over-year during that quarter. <\/p>\n

Cisco Chief Executive Chuck Robbins told employees in May it\u2019s cutting costs in certain areas while prioritizing other investments. That includes employee use of AI across the company.<\/p>\n

He said Cisco will be among winners in the AI era, but that means \u201cmaking hard decisions \u2014 about where we invest, how we\u2019re organized, and how our cost structure reflects the opportunity in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of July 2025, Cisco had roughly 86,200 employees, according to its annual report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jos\u00e9 tech company Cisco plans to cut 471 workers in three Bay Area offices, according to layoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2007,139366,7,9,8,4242,1804,828,25795,2302,152377,38268,6049,27658,14921,4455,72],"class_list":["post-376235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence-boom","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cisco","tag-company","tag-employee","tag-layoff-notice","tag-may","tag-more-investment","tag-other-area","tag-role","tag-tech-company","tag-third-quarter","tag-worker","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}