9 layoff headlines from June 2026.
June 1, 2026 · Newsweek
Walgreens cut 159 workers in Texas as it closed a Houston distribution center, effective June 1 — part of broader footprint and cost reductions at the pharmacy chain. The move adds to a multi-year retrenchment that has included store closures and supply-chain consolidation amid pressure from competition and thin retail-pharmacy margins.
June 1, 2026 · Newsweek
Gilead Sciences filed to lay off 108 employees at its Redwood City, California headquarters, effective June 30, as the biotech trimmed corporate roles heading into mid-2026. The reduction is part of a wave of biopharma headcount adjustments captured in WARN filings across California and New Jersey this spring.
June 9, 2026 · Newsweek
Enterprise-software and telecom-billing vendor Amdocs said about 2,900 employees — many based in Israel — would lose their roles as part of an ongoing reorganization. It was the largest single tech layoff logged in the first half of June 2026, a relatively quiet month for WARN filings after a volatile spring.
June 10, 2026 · SEC Filing
Target said it would cut about 500 corporate and distribution roles in a reorganization concentrated in distribution operations and regional district teams, with store-level workers unaffected. Disclosed in a June 10 SEC filing, the move came as the retailer worked to streamline its cost structure amid soft discretionary demand.
June 8, 2026 · Crunchbase News
Salesforce trimmed about 86 positions across its Agentforce AI, MuleSoft, and Marketing Cloud units, affecting workers in California, Washington, and overseas. The small cut followed the larger reduction of nearly 1,000 roles the company made in February 2026 amid an AI-driven reorganization.
June 1, 2026 · TechCrunch
GitLab laid off about 14% of its workforce — roughly 350 of 2,375 employees — and pulled out of 22 countries as it redirected spending toward a 'generational rebuild' of its infrastructure for AI and agentic workloads. CEO Bill Staples said agents 'work at machine scale' and are stressing developer infrastructure beyond its design, and the company booked $30–35M in restructuring charges. Notably, the cuts came alongside 23% year-over-year revenue growth to $264M — a profitable, growing company cutting anyway.
June 25, 2026 · Bloomberg
Sonos cut about 3% of its workforce — roughly 55 of 1,840 employees — across user-experience, product, and design teams, and pushed out several long-tenured executives including VP of design Dana Krieger. CEO Tom Conrad framed the move as removing management layers so teams can 'execute with greater autonomy and speed.' A company spokesperson said the cuts were unrelated to its AI efforts, a rare non-AI rationale in a year dominated by AI-driven reductions.
June 30, 2026 · Retail Gazette
British American Tobacco announced it would cut or outsource around 9,000 roles — about 20% of its non-US workforce — under a three-year 'Fit2Win' transformation programme. Of those, 5,500 jobs are being eliminated and 3,500 moved to strategic partners such as Accenture and ITC Infotech, as the company leans on automation, data analytics, and AI to save roughly £600 million ($793 million) a year by 2028. US operations, its largest market, were unaffected.
June 30, 2026 · Analytics Insight
Cisco filed a California WARN notice to eliminate 471 Bay Area roles, with software engineers the most affected job category. The cuts are a follow-on to the roughly 4,000 jobs Cisco said it would eliminate in Q4 as it reallocates resources toward silicon, optics, security, and AI. Impacted employees receive pro-rated 2026 bonuses and outplacement support through Cisco's placement services.