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What Indeed layoffs have meant for employees

If you were cut in March 2023, your package went past base pay. Besides severance, Chris Hyams's memo promised the January through March bonus at target or at quota performance, whichever was greater, six months of career placement services and twelve months of mental health services, and people kept their laptops once they'd been wiped. If you're offered severance in a later round, those items make a fair list to ask about one at a time, starting with the bonus for the quarter you're in.

In 2023, everyone outside the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Japan was to learn by email within the hour whether they'd been cut, while staff in those four countries were told local rules meant a longer wait. When the 2024 cut came, staff in Ireland, the UK and Australia first learned whether they'd enter a consultation process. Access went quickly in 2023. People cut that March lost Indeed's business systems the same day and kept email, Slack and Workday only until midnight Central time on March 26. The 2024 emails linked affected employees to the details of their separation packages, according to the May 2024 memo. If your package details live in an email link or in Workday, it can help to save copies while you still have access.

Unvested stock was part of the 2023 package. Indeed promised cash for the RSUs due to vest on May 1, priced at the February 1 close with a top-up if May 1's close was higher, and for grants made from August 2022 on, it promised part of that vest with the one-year cliff waived, while anyone whose last day fell after May 1 would vest as planned. The share-based payment expense Recruit reported on its May 2026 earnings call came in significantly below the $570 million it had planned, and Recruit put the shortfall down to the July 2025 workforce reduction. If you hold unvested RSUs and severance has come up, how the next scheduled vest would be treated is a fair question, since the 2023 terms covered it with cash.

Each big cut came with its own explanation, and those explanations are worth having in hand if you're asked about your exit. In 2023, Hyams blamed a cooling job market and wrote that the organization was "simply too big for what lies ahead," and the cuts came from nearly every team. In 2024 he described a cut to simplify an organization with too many layers, mostly in the US and more focused on R&D and some go-to-market teams. In 2025, Recruit chief executive Hisayuki Idekoba wrote to staff that "AI is changing the world, and we must adapt," GeekWire reported, and a Recruit representative said the cuts would mainly reach US roles in R&D, human resources and sustainability. The decision came out of working out how many people future operations needed and how to use automation, Recruit's Junichi Arai told analysts on an August 2025 earnings call, and he said some areas might keep hiring while others leaned further on automation. If an interviewer wants to know why you left, the company's public reason for your round can carry part of the answer, and explaining a layoff goes further into it.

Washington's 2025 notice covered remote employees as well as people in the Seattle office, GeekWire reported, so if you worked remotely and you're trying to find a notice that covered your job, you can ask which office it was filed under. Between them, Indeed's and Glassdoor's notices in our WARN tracker went to California, Illinois and Washington. Indeed is based in Austin, yet no Texas filing under either name appears in our tracker. For those four states, the unemployment benefits pages for California, Washington, Illinois and Texas set out the steps for a claim in each.

A sourced history of Indeed layoffs

• November 2025, Indeed cuts a small number of roles

  Indeed reorganized several functions and eliminated "a very small number of roles," four months after the July cuts, it told Business Insider in a statement.

• July 2025, Recruit cuts about 1,300 at Indeed and Glassdoor

  Recruit's HR Technology segment announced the cut on July 10, about 6% of its workforce, in a July 11 release. Recruit also planned, GeekWire reported, to fold Glassdoor's operations into Indeed, and Washington's notice covered 92 Seattle jobs, remote employees included, with layoffs set for September 9.

• May 2024, Indeed cuts about 1,000 jobs

  About 8% of the company was to go, including most of the sales and CS roles in Foster City, California, Chris Hyams wrote in a May 2024 memo. Indeed's California notice that day, in our WARN tracker, listed 87 jobs.

• March 2023, Indeed cuts about 2,200 jobs

  Indeed let roughly 15% of its team go, Chris Hyams wrote in a March 2023 memo. Those cut stopped work that day, with pay through March 31 and severance of at least 16 weeks' base salary.

• March 2023, Glassdoor cuts about 140 jobs

  Glassdoor's chief executive, Christian Sutherland-Wong, said it would cut about 15% of its workforce worldwide, calling layoffs a last resort Glassdoor had reached, and the Irish Times reported that the decision came as revenue declined.

• May 2020, Glassdoor cuts 300 jobs, most in Chicago

  Glassdoor laid off 30% of its workforce, KQED reported, with three months' pay, the work laptop and health care costs covered through the end of the year. Its California notice in our tracker listed 81 jobs in Mill Valley, where Glassdoor was based.

What to do if you're laid off from Indeed

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