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<\/p>\nCisco tells California officials it will lay off hundreds of employees in San Francisco, Milpitas and San Jose, with software engineering roles heavily affected, as part of a broader restructuring unveiled in May with the company\u2019s announcement that it would lay off nearly 4,000 employees this year.<\/p>\n
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Just a month after disclosing a significant restructuring effort<\/a> that would eliminate thousands of jobs, Cisco detailed plans to lay off nearly 500 employees in California, a large concentration of which are involved in software engineering.<\/p>\n The networking, security, and AI technology developer in recent weeks sent three Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) letters to the California Employment Development Department detailing the dozens of job cuts. Under California\u2019s WARN Act, employers with 75 or more employees are required to provide 60 days\u2019 advance written notification.<\/p>\n The WARN letters stated that employees in May were notified of the layoffs, which would be effective in mid-July.<\/p>\n [Related: The 10 Biggest Tech Company Layoffs Of 2025<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cThis action is expected to be permanent in nature. Employees will be notified of the employment layoffs on May 14, 2026, and will be terminated on July 13, 2026 (the termination date will be effective on that date or on a date with the 13-day period immediately following that date),\u201d the letters stated. They were signed by Saidah Grayson Dill, Cisco\u2019s vice president and deputy general counsel for employment law.<\/p>\n The layoffs appear to be part of a wider planned layoff of nearly 4,000 employees Cisco unveiled<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n