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What Asana layoffs have meant for employees

One manager cut in November 2022 told Fortune he found out from an early morning email, and that a package with a minimum of 60 days of pay along with other benefits meant he wouldn't need to tap savings until halfway through the year. The career assistance Asana offered was outsourced to another company, he said, and he didn't use it. SFGATE put that round at around 150 people. If health coverage from a package you're weighing ends before a new job's plan starts, how COBRA works covers when continuation is available and what it costs.

Asana's filings also show what each plan cost and where on its books those costs were recorded. The 2022 plan came to $9.3 million, inside the range its Form 8-K had estimated, and the fiscal 2025 10-K records $6.6 million of that in the sales and marketing expense line. The 2025 plan finished at $6.7 million, under the $7.0 million to $7.5 million first estimated, and more than half of its first $4.5 million was recognized in the research and development expense line, as the fiscal 2026 10-K breaks it out. Those lines show where the company recorded each cut's cost, not who lost a job.

In three of the four reductions, the key date falls in Asana's fiscal fourth quarter, November through January. Asana authorized the 2022 plan on November 15, approved the 2025 plan in that quarter of fiscal 2025, and booked the first separate reduction's charges in the quarter ended January 31, 2026, as the fiscal 2026 10-K and the October 2025 10-Q show, which dates the accounting, not the day anyone was let go. The second separate reduction's charges were booked in the quarter ended July 31, 2026, in the July 2026 10-Q, so the pattern describes past filings and isn't a calendar anyone can plan around.

If one of the two later reductions took your job, the company's label for it, an insignificant workforce reduction, doesn't have to be yours. 'My role was eliminated in a workforce reduction Asana disclosed in its financial filings' is accurate and plainer, and talking about a layoff in interviews covers what follows that first sentence.

For a new hire on the Exhibit 10.10 grant form who's let go other than for cause before the first vesting date, the prorated part is the cliff's shares times the full months served over the full months from hire to that date, and the form's own example, five months into a year-long wait for the first vest, vests five-twelfths of them. If that's your situation, the general release has to take effect, and become irrevocable, within 60 days of your termination date for those shares to vest, which makes its deadline worth putting on a calendar the day the release arrives. That release covers all claims you might have against Asana and its affiliates, so the shares are one side of a trade that negotiating a severance agreement can help you price.

If your role was among those affected by the 2022 plan outside the US, Asana's 8-K said potential position eliminations in each country were subject to local law and consultation requirements, which could stretch the process past the end of fiscal 2023 in limited cases. In San Francisco, both California notices were filed for 633 Folsom Street, the address SFGATE gave for Asana's headquarters, and the state's 2022-23 report and 2024-25 report list each layoff as effective the day its notice was dated. Neither that 2024-25 report nor Asana's fiscal 2025 10-K says whether the February 2025 layoffs were part of the 2025 plan. If you worked for Asana in California, how the state handles an unemployment claim is set out in California unemployment benefits.