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What Agilent Technologies layoffs have meant for employees

What changed across Agilent's four plans is what it said they were for, and the restructuring footnote in its 2025 annual report lays the shift out plan by plan. The 2023 and 2024 plans were designed to reduce costs in response to macroeconomic conditions, and they came with headcounts, about 400 and then about 500 regular employees; Agilent says every workforce action and payment under both is finished. The 2025 and 2026 plans were designed to optimize its management structure to better serve customers, and the notes on them in that annual report and the July 2026 10-Q give purpose, dollars and timing but no headcount, share of the workforce or place. The fiscal 2025 plan's expected finish has moved, too, from the second quarter of fiscal 2026 in the annual report to the end of fiscal 2026 in the 10-Q. If you were cut under one of those later plans, the expense totals in those two notes can't be read as a count of the people cut or a map of where they worked.

The severance formula on file is a dated version. It's the one a March 2025 retention agreement attached for a single executive, as the Workforce Management Program stood that day, and it grows with service only up to a point. Under it, anyone with four years or fewer lands at the two-month minimum plus the three added months, five months of base pay in all, and the service part stops growing at 12 years, where the total reaches nine months. Eight years works out to seven. If a package reaches you on different terms, how severance agreements get negotiated covers the points people have pushed on.

The smaller pieces of that version carry conditions of their own. Outplacement through a firm Agilent chooses runs up to three months, has to be started within a month of the termination date and can't be traded for cash. The job search benefit is for the costs of looking for work outside the company, and someone covered by the Agilent Results Bonus program could be eligible for a pro-rated bonus where the Workforce Management Program in question provided for one. The health expense benefit is intended for health-care costs, including the extra plan premiums a separation can bring, so if you're pricing continued coverage, how COBRA continuation works has the rest of that math.

Agilent's employee stock award forms bear on anyone weighing whether to leave before a cut reaches them. Under its 2025 award form, a resignation forfeits unvested stock awards unless the employee is at least 60 and their age plus years of service reach 75, and even then the awards keep their normal vesting dates, so leaving on your own ahead of a cut can cost the unvested balance. The costs Agilent booked for its 2023 and 2024 plans list accelerated share-based compensation expense right beside severance.

Agilent's late-2023 California notices show up by street address in the state's WARN report. The notices that October and November named 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard in Santa Clara, 11011 North Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla and 6779 Mesa Ridge Road in San Diego, and the state listed every one as a permanent layoff, with effective dates running from December 1, 2023 to January 26, 2024. If one of those buildings was where you worked, or you were at another California site in a later round, how California unemployment works sets out the state's claim steps and weekly amounts.

A sourced history of Agilent Technologies layoffs

• Fiscal 2026 third quarter, second management restructuring plan

  Agilent booked about $15 million for the plan, the July 2026 10-Q shows, with severance and other personnel costs in the expense, and expects the work to be substantially finished by fiscal 2027's first quarter.

• Fiscal 2025 second quarter, plan to optimize management structure

  Agilent announced this plan during the second quarter of fiscal 2025 and recorded $81 million under it that year, its fiscal 2025 10-K shows, noting that the expense includes severance and other personnel-related costs.

• June 2024, 3% workforce cut and a California filing

  Agilent was cutting 3% of its workforce across operations and regions, with no facility closings planned, a spokesperson told MedTech Dive. Its June 7 California filing covered 184 employees at Santa Clara, San Diego, Folsom and Carpinteria, 156 in Santa Clara, set to start August 9.

• December 2023, plan to cut about 400 jobs disclosed

  A plan begun in the last quarter of Agilent's 2023 fiscal year would cut about 400 employees, about 2% of its workforce, with some site closures, MedTech Dive reported from the company's filing.

• October 2023, Kirkland, Washington closing

  A Washington notice filed under Agilent's name lists a closing of 64 jobs at Kirkland, with October 31, 2023 as the layoff date, in our tracker.

• September 2023, Resolution Bioscience sale agreement

  Agilent had planned to shut down Resolution Bioscience, which it bought for $550 million in 2021, before agreeing that September, MedTech Dive reported, to sell it to Exact Sciences.

What to do if you're laid off from Agilent Technologies

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Agilent Technologies's biggest hubs: California. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Agilent Technologies's hub states run: California, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.