REPORTED · WARN NOTICE✓ VERIFIEDAdded May 20, 2026

LinkedIn Corporation Layoff — July 2026

SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGCalifornia Employment Development Department· filed May 15, 2026View the filing ↗

EMPLOYEES AFFECTED

606

SHARE OF WORKFORCE

~3.0%

EFFECTIVE DATE

Jul 13, 2026

606 OF 20,000 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Office Mountain View, CA · 5 locations (Santa Clara County).

A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on May 15, 2026.

Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the CA state workforce agency.

Summary

LinkedIn announced in an internal memo from CEO Daniel Shapero that it will lay off employees and scale back some investments, while Hari Srinivasan, the company's chief product officer of the LinkedIn Ecosystem, outlined shifts to make product teams smaller, faster and more AI-driven. The changes involve creating more agile product teams with fewer layers and operational adjustments tied to the forthcoming reductions. The memo frames the moves as part of broader restructuring across Product organizations to prioritize speed and AI leverage. No specific headcount, dates, or locations for the layoffs were provided in the article.

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 Office Mountain View, CA (Santa Clara 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.