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What Philips layoffs have meant for employees

The western Pennsylvania layoffs reached three addresses the Pittsburgh Business Times listed, 174 Tech Center Drive in Mount Pleasant, 312 Alvin Drive in New Kensington and 1001 Murry Ridge Lane in Murrysville. If you worked at any of the three, the notice covers your site, and June 30, 2026 was the end of the window the company gave the state. Pennsylvania's list names the employer on that notice as Respironics, Inc., not Philips, which matters if you're matching it against your own paperwork. Western Pennsylvania had been on the receiving end before, since Philips planned to move 160 Kennesaw positions there when it consolidated that Georgia site, HME News reported. By 2024 Philips had decided to send the region's own manufacturing out.

Respironics is one of several companies inside Philips whose own names appear on layoff notices. Volcano Corporation filed two California notices for Rancho Cordova in 2014 and 2015, Spectranetics one for Fremont, California in 2021, Respironics California one in California in 2022 and CardioNet one for Conyers, Georgia in 2010. Philips' 20-F subsidiary filing at the end of 2025 still includes Respironics California, Spectranetics LLC, CardioNet, LLC and Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation, the name Volcano later took. If your pay stub or offer letter carries one of those names, the notices for your site may be filed under it rather than under Philips.

The cuts haven't been confined to production lines. The Eugene WARN letter listed software development engineers, verification and validation engineers and a head of operations among its 60 positions, and the 2025 annual report describes streamlining within Philips' Functions that year, with shifts in services, product management and commercial teams. Separately, the report puts the year's most significant restructuring projects, in its Other and Connected Care segments, mainly in the US and the Netherlands. Its provision for personnel lay-off costs rose to €124 million in 2025 from €106 million in 2024, after it had finished the global reduction it announced in 2022 and 2023. If you worked in Philips' Emergency Care business, it left Philips on December 31, 2025, when the sale to Bridgefield Capital closed with a brand license and a transition service and manufacturing agreement, per the same report.

Bothell's record carries a regulatory thread that Philips says is separate from its cuts. The site is a hub for engineering and manufacturing ultrasound equipment and other healthcare devices, and Philips has around 1,500 employees in the Seattle area, by the LinkedIn count GeekWire cited, and the FDA's September 2025 warning letter named the Bothell facility along with a Pennsylvania location and one in the Netherlands, over how the site documented its response to reports of defective ultrasound devices. Philips said the December layoffs were completely unrelated to any regulatory action. Washington's notices spell the Bothell employer Phillips Ultrasound, Inc, with a double l, back to 2005, so a search for the site under the correct spelling can miss them.

Washington, Georgia and California are the three states holding the most Philips-matched notices in our tracker, in that order, and Pennsylvania received two of the three 2025 notices; those four state pages set out how a benefits claim works in each. The 2025 annual report also lists Reedsville, a Pennsylvania plant that makes AI-enabled ultrasound systems, in a $150 million plan Philips announced to expand US manufacturing and R&D. Where a notice reaches you, its dates are the ones Philips gave the state, and both the Eugene and Westmoreland County notices ran in phases over several months, so a last day earlier or later than a coworker's can sit inside the same notice.

A sourced history of Philips layoffs

• December 2025, Philips Ultrasound cuts in Bothell, Washington

  Philips Ultrasound was laying off 33 production operators, warehouse operators and technicians at Bothell effective December 31, GeekWire reported from a state filing. Philips called it a limited restructuring under a transition plan announced in 2024.

• October 2025, Respironics notice for three Westmoreland County sites

  Philips Respironics notified Pennsylvania of 196 layoffs between December 31, 2025 and June 30, 2026, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported. A spokesperson tied the October 30 letter to the June 2024 plan to move that manufacturing to a strategic supplier.

• June 2024, Respironics plans to leave Pennsylvania manufacturing

  Philips Respironics said it would hand Murrysville and New Kensington manufacturing to an existing third-party manufacturer and leave its Pittsburgh headquarters, MedTech Dive reported. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported 300 manufacturing jobs cut and 500 headquarters staff moving to the two plants.

• October 2022 to 2024, global job cuts

  Philips announced 4,000 job cuts in October 2022 and 6,000 more in early 2023, MedTech Dive reported, and Philips' 2025 annual report counts the 10,000-role reduction complete by the end of 2024.

• November 2021, Gainesville, Florida layoffs

  Philips North America filed a Florida notice that about 330 Gainesville employees would be let go by the end of 2022, the first 49 on December 31, WCJB reported.

• January 2020, Eugene, Oregon neurology business closing

  Philips told Oregon it would end its Neurology Solutions business in Eugene, with about 60 jobs ending from March 27 until the site's planned closing around December 31, 2020, according to its WARN letter.

• 2019, Kennesaw, Georgia operations consolidated

  Philips said it would move manufacturing, R&D and related work out of Kennesaw through the end of 2019, with home oxygen production going to a third-party manufacturer and its western Pennsylvania plants, HME News reported, affecting about 400 positions.

• February 2018, Philips halts scanner manufacturing near Cleveland

  Philips said it would stop making CT and nuclear medicine scanners at its Highland Heights plant, bought in 2001, in favor of sites in Israel and China. A spokesperson put eventual layoffs at about 382 of 850 Cleveland-area employees, AuntMinnie reported from Cleveland.com.

• June 2017, Dunlee plant in Aurora, Illinois to close

  Philips said it would close the Aurora plant of Dunlee, the X-ray components maker it bought in 2001, by the end of 2017 and move tube and generator work to Hamburg, Germany, affecting about 200 employees, DOTmed reported.

What to do if you're laid off from Philips

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