LinkedIn Corporation Layoff — July 2026

LinkedIn announced it will reduce roughly 5% of its global workforce as part of a restructuring to reorganize teams and redirect spending toward higher-impact priorities. With more than 17,500 full-time employees globally, the planned cuts could affect about 875 workers and will touch the Global Business Organization as well as marketing, engineering and product teams. Company leadership said the moves are part of regular business planning rather than being driven directly by AI, and LinkedIn is also scaling back spending on marketing campaigns, external vendors, customer events and underutilized office space. The decision was reported via people familiar with the matter and referenced an internal memo from CEO Daniel Shapero; LinkedIn provided a statement characterizing the changes as positioning the company for future growth and stability.

LinkedIn Corporation disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the CA state workforce agency on May 15, 2026. The notice covers 606 employees in Via Real Carpinteria, CA (Santa Barbara County), with the layoff effective July 13, 2026.

The state lists each affected employee separately by work location, so this filing spans 5 CA communities: Maude Avenue Sunnyvale, Middlefield Road Mountain View, Office Mountain View, Second Street San Francisco, Via Real Carpinteria.

That is roughly 3% of the 20,000 people LinkedIn Corporation employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 16 layoff events at LinkedIn Corporation since February 2023, including 1,603 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 11 additional events known from news reporting.