Laid off from Chegg.

From late 2024 through 2025, Chegg tied its layoffs to students turning to generative AI and to Google's AI Overviews keeping searchers off its site. Its U.S. staff shrank by a larger share than its staff abroad, and it gave up its Santa Clara headquarters at the end of 2025.

What we know about Chegg severance and layoffs

388 roles in the October 2025 restructuring, about 45% of Chegg's workforce
441 jobs cut in the June 2024 restructuring, about 23% of staff
About 21% of the workforce, 319 employees, cut in November 2024
248 employees in the May 2025 cut, about 22% of Chegg's staff
1,384 fewer employees from December 2023 to December 2025, a drop of about 70%
88 permanent layoffs on Chegg's May 13, 2025 notice to California
$17.9 million in October 2025 plan charges by September 2026, mostly termination benefits

The most recent Chegg layoff we've found

Chegg's third-quarter 2026 report disclosed a further workforce reduction carried out in July 2026, with $0.8 million in charges recorded for it by September 30. A legal note in the same report says that on September 30, 2026, a federal court dismissed the antitrust complaint Chegg had brought against Google over its AI Overviews.

What Chegg layoffs have meant for employees

Chegg put the reason for its cuts in writing, and over three years the reason turned around. The 2023 annual report framed the June 2023 cut as a way to carry out Chegg's own AI strategy, while the November 2024 filing listed students adopting generative AI products among the challenges behind that later cut. Its February 2025 results release said Google's AI Overviews had "a profound impact on Chegg's traffic, revenue, and workforce," that they keep searchers on Google rather than sending them on to sites like Chegg's, and that non-subscriber traffic stood at negative 49% in January 2025, after an 8% decline for the second quarter of 2024. If a recruiter asks how your Chegg job ended, the company has already given its reason in public, and a short, factual answer citing that reason keeps the conversation on Chegg's business.

Chegg's U.S. workforce shrank more steeply than the rest of it. By our arithmetic from that 2023 report and Chegg's 2025 annual report, U.S. headcount fell from 839 to 184 over those two years, about 78%, while headcount in other countries fell about 64%, and at the close of 2025, 411 of its 595 employees worked outside the U.S. Year-end headcount takes in resignations and every other departure along with layoffs. Chegg's June 2024, November 2024 and May 2025 filings each said their charge estimates depended partly on "local law requirements in various jurisdictions." The company also closed its Santa Clara headquarters, and Chegg's third-quarter 2026 report books the cost of shutting that office. If you worked for Chegg from California, our California unemployment page covers how a severance payment and a benefits claim fit together in that state.

Each cut from June 2023 to October 2025 has a dated Chegg document behind it, its June 2024 filing and May 2025 filing among them. If a benefits claim or a background check asks why you were let go, the filing for your round is a public record of when Chegg announced the cut and the reason it gave.

The October 2025 cut closed out the strategic review Chegg had announced in February 2025. Chegg's October 2025 release said the review, run with Goldman Sachs, had weighed a sale, a go-private deal and staying public, and that the board chose unanimously to remain independent. The same release named the business Chegg was betting on, a skilling company built on Busuu's language learning and Chegg Skills, while Chegg Study was moving to an AI model that answers every new question automatically, with students keeping access to nearly 120 million archived expert answers. For the academic side of the business, the release said Chegg would run those services at a substantially lower cost and put the cash it freed into skilling. That wasn't the last cut, either, since the same quarterly report that books the Santa Clara closing records another reduction in July 2026.

Chegg's restructuring filings said most of each plan's expected cost would go to cash severance, transition pay and benefits. Added up from that quarterly report, the four plans from June 2024 through October 2025 had booked about $75 million in charges by September 30, 2026. The same report called the June and November 2024 plans complete. If you're negotiating a package from the newest cut, our severance negotiation notes go through the review window and the terms that usually have room.

A sourced history of Chegg layoffs

July 2026, a further workforce reduction
Chegg's third-quarter 2026 report says the company executed a workforce reduction in July under a new restructuring plan and booked $0.8 million in charges for it, mostly one-time termination benefits.
October 2025, 388 roles and Rosensweig back as CEO
Chegg's October 27 release put the cut at 388 roles, about 45% of its workforce, blaming "the new realities of AI and reduced traffic from Google" for falling traffic and revenue. It expected charges of $15 million to $19 million, chiefly cash severance payments.
May 2025, 248 jobs and an early exit from headquarters
A May 12 filing announced 248 job cuts, roughly 22% of the workforce, citing a decline in traffic, and an early end to the Santa Clara headquarters lease, effective December 31. California's WARN report shows a notice the next day for 88 permanent layoffs at that address.
November 2024, 319 jobs in a second 2024 restructuring
Chegg's November 12 filing announced the cut of 319 employees, about 21% of the workforce, citing increased competition and student adoption of generative AI products. It estimated $22 million to $26 million in charges, largely cash for severance, transition pay and benefits.
June 2024, 441 jobs in a companywide restructuring
A June 17 filing announced the reduction, about 441 employees or roughly 23% of Chegg's staff, and estimated $10 million to $14 million in charges, mostly cash spent on severance and benefits.
June 2023, about 90 jobs in an AI reorganization
Chegg's 2023 annual report says the June 12 announcement cut about 90 employees, about 4% of the workforce, to "better position us to execute against our AI strategy."
2015, Kentucky warehouse exit in the Ingram partnership
Chegg's 2015 annual report says its Ingram partnership let it leave its Kentucky warehouse that year, and the plan, which also closed a print coupon business, booked $1.9 million in termination benefits for 71 employees. The warehouse's June 10 closure notice, for 31 jobs, is in our WARN tracker.

What to do if you're laid off from Chegg

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

Chegg layoff and severance questions

How many employees has Chegg laid off?

No single figure covers every Chegg layoff. The May and October 2025 plans alone came to about 640 jobs in its 2025 annual report, but its third-quarter 2026 report records the July 2026 reduction only as charges, and the 71 employees counted in its 2015 annual report covered a print coupon business as well as the Kentucky warehouse. Year-end headcount fell by 1,384, about 70%, from the count in the 2023 annual report to the one in the 2025 report, a figure that counts every departure, not only layoffs.

What severance has Chegg given laid-off employees?

Chegg's filings put severance in plan totals rather than per-person terms. Its October 2025 release put that cut's expected charges at $15 million to $19 million, mostly cash severance, and its third-quarter 2026 report shows $8.9 million in termination benefits paid under that plan in the first three quarters of 2026. Only $675,000 of that plan's termination-benefit liability was still on its books at September 30, so payments to people cut in that round had largely gone out.

Did Chegg file WARN notices for its layoffs?

Two WARN notices from Chegg appear in our tracker. California's WARN report shows the first, dated May 13, 2025, as 88 permanent layoffs at 3990 Freedom Circle in Santa Clara County, effective two days later, and the second is a Kentucky closure notice from June 10, 2015, for 31 jobs. California's reports from July 2014 on list no other Chegg notice.

Did Chegg sue Google over AI Overviews?

Yes. On February 24, 2025, Chegg filed antitrust and unjust enrichment claims against Google in federal court in Washington, D.C., and CEO Nathan Schultz said in that day's results release that Google had retained traffic that historically came to Chegg, "impacting our acquisitions, revenue and employees." The court dismissed the complaint on September 30, 2026, according to a legal note in Chegg's September 2026 quarterly report.