Laid off from Herbalife.

What Herbalife layoffs have meant for employees

At the end of 2025, Herbalife's corporate executive offices were in downtown Los Angeles, and its North America regional headquarters, with some of its corporate support functions, was in about 145,000 square feet of Torrance office space leased through 2036, its 2025 10-K says. Its U.S. headcount was about 900 lower at that point than at the end of 2021, about 29% smaller, by the year-end counts in that filing and the 2021 10-K. That's a net change between two snapshots, so it can't be read as a layoff count, and it measures something different from a notice, though it's more than five times the 163 jobs on the largest single set of California notices. If you're job hunting after one of these cuts, there's more on explaining a layoff for the interview question.

If Herbalife let you go from its Los Angeles site or one of its Torrance buildings, the state's record of it comes in sets, as our WARN tracker and California's WARN report both show, and the state types every one of those rows a permanent layoff. Each of the 12 notice dates carries three notices, one per building, and within 2023 and again within 2024 each set listed a higher total than the last. The state's reports don't say whether a later set restates workers an earlier one already counted, so adding the sets into one layoff total could count the same people more than once. The Orange County Business Journal, citing those notices, reported 109 Herbalife layoffs in Los Angeles and Torrance in the first quarter of 2024, which matches the three rows of the set that took effect January 19, 2024. If you're matching your own notice to one of these sets, its effective date is the quickest tie, since each set carried a single one.

Three of the sets are dated after the effective date they list. The May 22, 2023 set gives April 28, and the June 3 and June 17, 2024 sets both give May 31, so each was dated after the day it names. If you kept a notice from one of those sets, the state's notice law those dates fall under is at layoffs in California.

One line in Herbalife's restructuring notes matters if your work is being moved rather than cut. The 2025 10-K books retention and separation as a single line under each program, so its totals blend pay for leaving with pay for staying, and Herbalife's June-quarter 10-Q puts every dollar of the technology realignment through June 2026 on that line. If Herbalife offers to pay you to stay through a handoff, you can weigh the stay date against when you'd rather be starting somewhere new. If your Herbalife health plan stopped with the job, there's more on keeping it in how COBRA works.

The programs Herbalife began after its last California notice reach past the Los Angeles and Torrance offices, into its technology infrastructure worldwide and its business service centers in several regions, and that 10-Q says the company "cannot reasonably estimate" the newer one's future costs. Herbalife counts the Transformation Program as finished by the close of 2024 and the 2024 restructuring by the close of 2025, which leaves the technology realignment and the Optimization Program as the two still open in its June 2026 report. If your job ended in California, the state's claim rules sit under California unemployment benefits. If a separation agreement reaches you under either newer program, there's more on negotiating severance for working out which parts of it can move.

A sourced history of Herbalife layoffs

• 2026, Optimization Program for global business service centers

  Herbalife began it in 2026's second quarter to optimize its global operating footprint, moving and consolidating certain activities within its global business service centers across multiple regions, its June-quarter 10-Q says.

• April 2025, Technology Realignment Program begins

  Herbalife began redesigning its global technology infrastructure in April 2025, and by June 30, 2026 it had booked about $12.6 million, all retention and separation, of about $15 million expected, the June-quarter 10-Q shows.

• April to June 2024, notices for Los Angeles and Torrance

  Five sets of Herbalife notices from April 22 to June 17, 2024 named its Los Angeles site and two Torrance buildings, all effective May 31. Counts went from 21, 59 and 21 to 29, 78 and 56, per California's WARN report and our WARN tracker.

• March 2024, restructuring to streamline the employee structure

  Herbalife's board approved the plan on March 17, 2024, expecting at least $60 million of 2024 costs, primarily severance, the March 2024 8-K says; the 2025 10-K put the completed program at about $76.1 million.

• February to November 2023, six sets of notices

  Herbalife filed six sets of California notices from February 27 to November 20, 2023, our WARN tracker shows, with effective dates of April 28 and September 29, 2023 and January 19, 2024. The November set listed 12, 34 and 63 jobs, per California's WARN report.

• January 2022, notices for April 1 layoffs

  Herbalife's earliest notices in our WARN tracker, three dated January 27, 2022, listed 3, 53 and 34 jobs, all effective April 1, 2022.

• Late 2021, Transformation Program begins

  Herbalife began the program in the fourth quarter of 2021, including the realignment of infrastructure and the locations of certain functions, and put its first phase at $25 million to $30 million, the 2021 10-K says. It finished at about $92.5 million, per the 2025 10-K.

What to do if you're laid off from Herbalife

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Herbalife'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 Herbalife'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.