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What Analog Devices layoffs have meant for employees

If you were covered by Maxim's change-in-control severance plan when a Maxim-era job ended, its arithmetic is short enough to check by hand. An exempt employee below executive director with six years in, or 72 full months, would have been due 24 weeks of base salary under the plan's formula. The plan also cut its payment dollar for dollar for any part of a WARN notice period an employee was excused from working, so a lump sum that comes in under the formula may reflect notice pay rather than an error. Base salary, full months of service and any excused notice days are the three numbers the check needs.

The Hillview shutdown shows how a long closing has worked at ADI. The Milpitas fab came with Linear Technology, and ADI's fiscal 2021 10-K says the charges covered one-time termination benefits for the affected employees on top of severance under its regular plan, earned by working through a service period the company required. The notice, as Evertiq reported it, reached staff in mid-December 2020 and expected terminations to run through October 29, 2021. A benefit earned by staying is money a worker gives up by leaving early, so if you're ever handed a closing date with a payment tied to staying until it, that payment belongs in the math when you weigh a job that would start sooner.

The figures in ADI's record measure different things. The February 2025 10-Q put fiscal 2025's first-quarter Global Repositioning charges at $63.9 million, a program total that included severance, and the August 2026 10-Q shows all of fiscal 2026's severance costs through August 1, 2026 booked in its first quarter, with only payments after that. Neither note gives a count of the employees affected, and a quarter's charges can hold costs that aren't severance at all, such as the $15.6 million San Jose sublease impairment early in fiscal 2026. Over a longer stretch, the program's charges had reached $591.6 million cumulatively by November 1, 2025, according to its fiscal 2025 10-K, which ties them to integrating Maxim and consolidating offices. The Boston Business Journal figure, 2,000 fewer workers worldwide in November 2024 than a year earlier, is a net change in headcount rather than a layoff count. If you're sizing up a round, those dollar totals, that headcount change and any one notice's job count can't be swapped for one another.

In Silicon Valley, ADI has been consolidating buildings for years. It sold the Hillview fab in fiscal 2022, the year it chose to move Santa Clara office work to a San Jose property it owns, according to its fiscal 2022 10-K, while the August 2026 10-Q records a sublease of a leased San Jose property early in fiscal 2026. If ADI offers you a seat at another building after a consolidation like those, the commute and any change in your role are part of what the offer is worth, and they're worth working out before you weigh it against leaving.

Every notice in our WARN tracker under Analog Devices' and Maxim's names comes from California or Texas, and Maxim's older Dallas and San Jose ones count with ADI's own because ADI owns Maxim now. Massachusetts enters only as the headquarters state, since ADI is based in Wilmington and the Business Journal counts it among that state's largest employers. California unemployment benefits and Texas unemployment benefits cover the two states where those tracked notices were filed, and Massachusetts unemployment benefits covers the headquarters state.

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Maxim-era stock got different treatment. For eligible exempt staff let go without cause, Maxim's U.S. severance plan fully vested time-based awards, pro rata for some grants made while the deal was pending, and ADI's newer RSU agreement form leaves its grants out of Maxim's acceleration policy.

A sourced history of Analog Devices layoffs

• Fiscal 2026 first quarter, repositioning severance charges

  ADI recorded severance costs in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, which ended January 31, 2026, for terminations in manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing and administrative roles; the August 2026 10-Q puts Global Repositioning charges at $32.4 million for the nine months through August 1, 2026.

• Fiscal 2025 first quarter, repositioning severance charges

  ADI recorded $63.9 million in Global Repositioning charges in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, the quarter that ended February 1, 2025, and the February 2025 10-Q says that total included severance.

• January 2024, Rio Robles cuts in San Jose

  ADI was cutting 111 jobs at its Rio Robles office complex in north San Jose, effective January 12, 2024, the Mercury News reported from state filings that listed them as permanent.

• Fiscal 2023, the Q4 2023 Plan reorganization

  ADI committed in fiscal 2023 to the Q4 2023 Plan, voluntary and involuntary reductions in force across manufacturing, engineering, selling and administrative positions, and its fiscal 2025 10-K puts the plan's charges at $155.9 million through November 2, 2024.

• Fiscal 2022, cuts after the Maxim merger

  Maxim became a wholly owned ADI subsidiary on August 26, 2021, its closing 8-K shows, and ADI's fiscal 2022 10-K recorded $180.4 million in fiscal 2022 for severance and benefits for staff let go at sites assumed in the deal and elsewhere.

• December 2020, Hillview fab closing notice in Milpitas

  A December 2020 notice told 255 employees that ADI's Milpitas facility on Hillview Drive, a wafer fab that came with Linear Technology, would close May 28, 2021, according to Evertiq; the fiscal 2021 10-K says production stopped that year.

What to do if you're laid off from Analog Devices

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Analog Devices's biggest hubs: California, Texas. 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 Analog Devices's hub states run: California, Texas, 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.