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What DexCom layoffs have meant for employees

For anyone who held one of DexCom's San Diego factory jobs, the choice its record points to is whether to follow that work to Mesa, and in 2024 a spokesperson told MedTech Dive that the reduction in its San Diego manufacturing workforce would come as the company transitioned over the coming years. Two San Diego buildings that had supported manufacturing were slated to become lab space, according to a Union-Tribune account that Drug Delivery Business News relayed. If a Mesa role with relocation help is on offer, it can be worth comparing that help with the full cost of moving there.

DexCom's 10-K for 2025 describes a workforce that grew again that year, but that growth hasn't preserved every function or every location. Even in 2019, despite its cuts, DexCom planned to grow its engineering and development ranks in San Diego, the San Diego Business Journal reported, and its chief executive said it would end the year with more employees in California and Arizona than before the restructuring. In 2024 the manufacturing move left 2,400 employees in San Diego, and Barry Regan, its executive vice president of global operations, told the Union-Tribune that DexCom expected to add about 400 jobs there as the site turned toward research and development. So the company has added people in the same years it subtracted particular jobs, and if you're hoping to stay with DexCom in San Diego, research and development is where its own statements put the growth.

If your job was on the 2025 notice, the letter behind it said the action was expected to be permanent, that no union represented the people affected and that their positions carried no bumping rights, according to Drug Delivery Business News, which got a copy from California's EDD. The state's WARN report counts 319 people on that notice at the Sequence Drive site, while a spokesperson told MedTech Dive that about 196 of the round's affected people were based in San Diego. The 2025 round also reached past the factory floor. DexCom tied the whole round to its organizational changes and tied the operations roles to the move to Arizona, so for the sales staff and senior managers on the notice, the company's stated reason is the reorganization itself.

In Mesa, DexCom's cuts and its growth have sat side by side. The one Arizona notice in our tracker dates to February 2019, when the company planned to phase out its Mesa call center while expanding manufacturing there, the Business Journal reported. By 2024 Regan put DexCom's Mesa manufacturing roles at 2,000, up from 500 five years earlier, and the 10-K for 2025 names Mesa as one of the two places DexCom primarily manufactures. If your DexCom job was in Arizona, the state's claim rules are at Arizona unemployment benefits, and for a San Diego job they're at California unemployment benefits.

DexCom's 2019, 2024 and 2025 cuts all came alongside rising sales. The 2019 plan came out with fourth-quarter results that showed strong revenue growth, the 2024 cut followed first-quarter revenue growth that MedTech Dive reported, and by the 2025 round the company had raised its sales expectations for the year. Its reasons have been about how and where it works, from the 2019 8-K plan's aim of lower operating expenses and more scalable business functions, to the 2024 statement's ongoing global growth strategy, to the organizational changes it cited in 2025. If you're describing a DexCom layoff to an interviewer, those are the company's own terms for it, and there's more on that conversation at explaining a layoff.

A sourced history of DexCom layoffs

• August 2025, about 350 job cuts in a restructuring

  DexCom filed a California layoff notice in late August and confirmed about 350 cuts worldwide, about 3% of its workforce, to MedTech Dive, with about 196 people affected based in San Diego and 134 San Diego operations roles shifting to Arizona.

• June 2024, decision to centralize U.S. manufacturing in Mesa

  DexCom notified California of 535 layoffs at one San Diego site, with the first separations set for July 26, after deciding to make Mesa, Arizona, its U.S. manufacturing center, a spokesperson told MedTech Dive.

• January 2021, San Diego layoff notice

  DexCom's January 6 notice to California covered 178 San Diego layoffs effective March 9, our WARN tracker shows.

• February 2019, plan to move operations to the Philippines

  DexCom's board committed on February 20 to moving certain operations to the Philippines, a plan its 8-K said would affect about 350 full-time employees, most in San Diego and Mesa. February 26 notices in our WARN tracker listed 228 jobs in San Diego and 160 in Mesa.

What to do if you're laid off from DexCom

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