The Bay Area workforce reductions are expected to eliminate about 600 jobs within the retail, grocery, technology, biotech and grocery industries, official state labor releases show.
Safeway, Draeger's Supermarkets, AppLovin, IGM Biosciences, Aurora Solar and Columbus Manufacturing have announced plans for job cuts that can impact staff across the region, based on WARN letters sent to the state Department of Employment Development .


All told, the cuts will eliminate 599 jobs within the Bay Area, documents show. Here are the small print of the recent staff cuts:
— Safeway, 156 job cuts at two office locations in Pleasanton. These are all corporate positions and none are positioned in Safeway supermarkets. The layoffs are scheduled to happen on February twenty second.
— Columbus Manufacturing, a meat producer, 125 layoffs in Hayward to happen March 15.
– IGM Biosciences, 100 job cuts planned for March 10 in Mountain View.
— AppLovin, 89 job cuts in Palo Alto. The terminations took place on January fifteenth.
— Draeger's Supermarkets, 71 layoffs in San Mateo. The cuts are related to the food market closure and are scheduled to happen March 10.
— Aurora Solar, 58 downsizing in San Francisco. The solar system design software provider said the workforce cuts occurred on Jan. 10.
The latest workforce cuts extend a difficult begin to 2025 for retailers across multiple industries.
Earlier this month, Macy's, Rite Aide and Kohl's announced plans for job cuts within the Bay Area stemming from their respective decisions to shut multiple stores. Retailers have also cut jobs in other parts of California.
The most up-to-date rounds of layoffs were all described as everlasting, based on WARN notices.
However, in two cases it is feasible that some staff who lose their jobs will tackle other roles inside their respective firms.
Draeger officials stated in the corporate's WARN letter that some staff may find a way to seek out jobs at other locations of the food company.
“Certain employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 may have the right to increase their seniority level, allowing them to transfer to another store,” Draeger’s wrote within the WARN letter.
Columbus Manufacturing said a few of its employees may proceed to work for the corporate.
“Approximately 34 employees whose positions terminate at the San Antonio Street location (in Hayward) will be offered continued employment at the company’s location at 3190 Corporate Place in Hayward,” Columbus Manufacturing wrote in its WARN letter.
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