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What Klaviyo layoffs have meant for employees

Klaviyo's cuts have narrowed from the whole company to particular teams, which matters if your work sits in one of the teams it has reshaped. Its first round, in 2023, reached across all teams, TechCrunch reported, and the 10-K's restructuring note shows that round's costs running through cost of revenue, sales and marketing, research and development and administration alike. After a 2024 with no restructuring costs at all, the 2025 and 2026 rounds fell on particular teams, research and development and then design and product, the second by employees' accounts in the Boston Business Journal. That's a hard way to work, because each round so far has come down to which teams, and that's a decision made over your head.

Klaviyo's 10-K describes its 2023 and 2025 restructurings as intended to improve operational efficiencies, and the 2023 message to the people cut, as TechCrunch quoted it, spoke of reducing redundancy and recalibrating where the company invests. That's language about teams and budgets, and if you were cut in one of those two plans, it gives you a short answer for an interviewer, along the lines of "Klaviyo restructured for operational efficiency, and my job was one of the ones it cut." If you were caught in the 2026 reorganization, a plain "Klaviyo reorganized, and my role was one of those cut" says enough. How to explain a layoff runs through what to say after that.

Klaviyo's own counts have arrived later than the headlines. Early estimates of the 2023 cut were roughly 10% of staff from TechCrunch and 9 to 12 percent from the Boston Globe, each worked out against a different headcount, while Klaviyo's 10-K stock compensation note later measured it against the full-time workforce. The 2025 plan's scale came the same way, in the third-quarter 10-Q for that period, so the quarterly reports are a reasonable place to look for a figure on September's reorganization.

The same filings show equity terms moving for some people on the way out, which makes the vesting section the part of any separation offer worth the slowest read. If you were buying shares through the employee stock purchase plan, its purchases run in six-month periods inside offering periods that start January 1 and July 1, so it's worth asking what happens to money withheld since the last purchase. The filings also put "related benefits" beside severance in what the cuts cost, so if health coverage is part of your package, how COBRA works is useful to have open next to it.

If you're still at Klaviyo and watching for the next round, one account of 2023 is worth keeping in mind. A former customer success manager wrote on LinkedIn that staff were told in a 15-minute meeting, as the Globe reported, and some of the people cut announced their job hunts on social media. If it moves that fast, it's worth keeping your own copies of reviews, equity grants and pay records somewhere you can still reach if your work accounts close.

When you're ready to look again, Klaviyo's filings show where it was building before September's reorganization. It added operations in Ireland in 2024, Singapore and France in 2025 and Canada in 2026, its June 2026 quarterly report says. On August 4, 2026 it agreed to acquire software from Agency AI, an AI-native company building agents for customer success, and committed to hire its team, in a deal it expected to close in the quarter ending September 30, a 10-Q subsequent events note says. If you're weighing what to learn first, AI skills that pay after layoffs sorts the useful from the decorative. And if you're announcing your own exit the way several Klaviyo employees did on LinkedIn, updating LinkedIn after a layoff covers the timing.

A sourced history of Klaviyo layoffs

• September 2026, Klaviyo employees report design and product cuts

  A reorganization that some workers learned of on Monday, September 28, eliminated roles in design, design leadership, product and brand strategy, according to employees' LinkedIn posts cited by the Boston Business Journal.

• August 2025, Klaviyo cut R&D staff in a restructuring

  Klaviyo laid off fewer than 100 workers in a restructuring of its R&D organization, The Information reported, as the Boston Business Journal relayed. The company cited rising expectations and more focus on AI skills, Natasha Mascarenhas wrote on X, sharing the scoop.

• March 2023, Klaviyo cut jobs across all its teams

  Klaviyo cut 140 jobs across all teams, including engineering and design, TechCrunch reported, and its public relations director said the focus was "supporting the departing Klaviyos." Klaviyo's own count, in a 10-K stock compensation note, was 130 employees, about 8% of its full-time workforce.

What to do if you're laid off from Klaviyo

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