Laid off from Samsung.

What Samsung layoffs have meant for employees

For anyone covered by Samsung Electronics America's New Jersey filing, what happens next turns on an offer. The filing, as TheStreet described it, says operating units in Englewood Cliffs will close with the headquarters move, that some employees were offered the same position in Texas, and that anyone not offered relocation, or who turns an offer down, will have their employment terminated. It gives a "transfer of operations" as the reason, which New Jersey law defines as moving an establishment or its operating units to another location, inside or outside the state. Samsung's statement to Reuters said the move "may lead to changes in our workforce structure, such as employees who are unable to relocate." So the same notice covers people who can keep a Samsung job by following it to Plano and people whose jobs end, and the line between them runs through two questions, whether an offer came and whether it was accepted.

Where a job ends in a transfer, closing or mass layoff that New Jersey's law covers, the state sets severance at a week's pay for every full year worked, paid at whichever is higher, the final regular rate or the average regular rate over the last three years, and the employer owes the greater of that or its own severance. The filing says covered employees will receive severance in accordance with New Jersey's requirements, TheStreet reported, and the law says a waiver of that severance doesn't take effect without approval from the state's labor commissioner or a court. The same law requires the notice to disclose the amount of severance payable under it. If you were offered a position in Texas, the law also requires the notification to include a statement of that job's pay, benefits, other terms and location, which you can compare with any description you're given in person.

Plano has had cuts of its own, one laid-off worker told Reuters, mobile staff among them, and LinkedIn posts Reuters reviewed showed more than 30 workers, including senior sales and marketing officials in Texas and New Jersey, saying they'd been let go or had left. A current employee told Reuters that workers feared more layoffs and a consolidation of the appliance, home entertainment and mobile divisions, while Samsung said no broad, global restructuring was underway in its consumer product business. Reuters wrote that the cuts underscore Samsung's divergent fortunes, its chip division at record profits while the consumer electronics units languished under rising chip costs and the mobile division looked set for its first-ever loss. Anyone weighing a Plano offer can set the cuts that worker described at that office beside the offer's own terms.

Samsung's U.S. record also runs through companies it has owned, which is why filings by Harman and Prismview sit in it alongside Samsung's own. Samsung bought all of Harman International in an $8 billion deal, a rAVe report noted in 2017, and the Herald Journal named Samsung Electronics as Prismview's parent company. In 2021 Utah made federal Trade Act help available to Prismview's Logan workers, a program the paper described as aimed at people left jobless by foreign trade policy or outsourcing overseas, and it covered costs such as tuition and career counseling, with income support for those who applied within 16 weeks of separation. The New Jersey filing tied to the headquarters move concerns the consumer electronics unit, not Samsung's chip division. You can look up filings under the Samsung, Harman and Prismview names in our WARN tracker.

A sourced history of Samsung layoffs

• June 2026, Samsung Electronics America's headquarters move to Texas

  The unit's planned move to Texas affected 739 roles in Englewood Cliffs, Samsung told Reuters, and documents it saw show some staff were told June 30 of an "enterprise-wide reduction-in-force." One laid-off worker said some 100 were let go in Plano.

• 2021, Prismview moving Logan manufacturing to Mexico

  Prismview, Samsung's LED sign unit, was moving Logan manufacturing to Mexico, the Herald Journal reported, with Trade Act aid for 88 workers losing jobs and transfers within Samsung for some staff. Prismview's Utah notice, filed in September 2021, is in our WARN tracker.

• 2019, CPU project shutdown at an Austin R&D center

  Samsung was shutting down CPU design work at an Austin R&D facility and laying off 290, the Statesman's count as Android Police relayed it, and said it would "transition part of our U.S.-based R&D teams in Austin and San Jose."

• 2019, Harman announces Franklin, Kentucky plant closing

  Harman told employees it would close the Franklin auto parts plant in September 2019, affecting around 165, and a statement WBKO carried said all eligible employees affected would get severance packages and help finding work.

• September 2017, Harman Professional restructuring, about 650 jobs

  Harman Professional, part of the Harman International Samsung bought, told about 650 U.S. and European staff they'd be laid off within a year, according to a rAVe report, with Elkhart, Indiana, and South Jordan, Utah, among sites set to close.

• August 2009, Samsung plans Austin Fab 1 conversion

  Samsung planned to close 200mm Fab 1 in Austin in October and spend $500 million folding it into 300mm Fab 2, per Semiconductor Digest, which expected 150 to 200 new jobs and cited the Statesman's count of 550 lost.

What to do if you're laid off from Samsung

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