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Novo Nordisk cuts 108 jobs at Plainsboro US headquarters

SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGNew Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce DevelopmentView the filing ↗

EMPLOYEES AFFECTED
108
SHARE OF WORKFORCE
~0.2%
PLANNED DATE
Dec 31, 2026
CONFIRMED IN SOURCE
108 OF 45,000 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Plainsboro, New Jersey, United States.

Department affected: US sales organization.

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

Summary

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk AS cut 108 jobs at its US headquarters in Plainsboro, New Jersey, as part of a wider restructuring. The layoffs are tied to a streamlining of its US sales organization to free up funds for research. The article frames the New Jersey reductions as one element of a broader U.S. reorganization by the company. No specific effective date for the cuts is provided in the article, and the report does not give additional detail on severance or individual units beyond the sales organization reference.

Novo Nordisk disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the NJ state workforce agency. The notice covers 108 employees in Plainsboro, NJ, with the layoff effective December 31, 2026.

That is roughly 0.2% of the 45,000 people Novo Nordisk employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 25 layoff events at Novo Nordisk since October 2023, including 919 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 23 additional events known from news reporting.

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Official WARN notice
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Estimated figure based on a WARN filing. Not yet confirmed by Novo Nordisk.

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Novo NordiskNVO
Health Care · 45,000 employees
25
EVENTS TRACKED
919
JOBS IN WARN FILINGS
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