Laid off from Tripadvisor.
Tripadvisor tied its two most recent layoff rounds, in November 2025 and November 2026, to a shift toward experiences, the bookings sold through Viator, and away from its hotel business. The 2026 cut came alongside news that its chief executive is stepping down.
What we know about Tripadvisor severance and layoffs
- 425 employee and contractor positions being cut from the hotel group, November 2026
- About 20% of staff, contractors included, in the November 2025 layoffs
- $33 million in estimated late-2025 realignment costs, all severance and related benefits
- About 125 employees laid off in 2023's third quarter, 4% of the workforce
- About 900 job cuts announced in April 2020, roughly a quarter of the workforce
- 40 San Francisco jobs on the only Tripadvisor WARN notice our tracker holds, 2020
The most recent Tripadvisor layoff we've found
In November 2026, Tripadvisor began shrinking its hotel group in a restructuring aimed at saving $40 million a year, alongside news that chief executive Matt Goldberg is stepping down in February and chief financial officer Mike Noonan at the end of December, the Boston Globe reported.
What Tripadvisor layoffs have meant for employees
Since 2025, the layoff counts for Tripadvisor have folded contractors in with employees, so none of the headline numbers is an employee count on its own. The February 2025 cut, which followed missed financial targets according to Travel Weekly, was roughly 75 employees and about 90 contractors, by the count of sources who spoke to Skift. In November 2025, the figure in the company's email covered both, Skift's November 2025 report said, and the November 2026 hotel-group reduction was an employee and contractor number too, the Boston Globe reported. Tripadvisor uses independent contractors to supplement its workforce, its 2025 10-K notes, and they come on top of the roughly 2,590 employees it counted at year-end 2025. If you were a contractor in those cuts, the layoff counts include roles like yours even though the employee totals don't.
Tripadvisor has said plainly which side of the business it's shrinking. Its November 2025 email said the legacy model was still profitable but hadn't returned to growth despite significant effort and investment, and that the company would focus on experiences and AI-enabled discovery, planning and booking, Skift reported, and the 10-K booked the bulk of the realignment's severance to Hotels and Other, the segment once called Brand Tripadvisor. A year after the email, the company's November 5 release paired cuts across non-core revenue lines in Hotels and Other with additional product, engineering and data analytics roles for Experiences. If you're on the hotel side and those are your skills, that release names the kinds of roles the company says it's adding. The experiences business hasn't been untouched. The January 2020 cuts mostly affected the experiences division, CNBC reported, and Viator's share of the 2023 actions was a reorganization that relocated some of its capabilities, the November 2023 results release says.
On December 31, 2025, roughly 68% of Tripadvisor's employees were in Europe, a count taken before TheFork's sale in November 2026. Consultations figured in two of the company's rounds. In April 2020, about 200 of the planned cuts depended on country-specific consultation processes, the Q1 2020 10-Q shows. In 2023, the company's filing counted employees still in local-law and country-specific consultations, and some people targeted that year weren't due to leave until the fourth quarter because certain European countries require a process with unions or works councils first, according to Skift's 2023 report. If you're in a consultation in one of those countries, the 2023 round is the company's nearest precedent for how long the process ran.
The 2020 round also touched people who kept their jobs. Salaried staff in most markets were asked to work a four-day week at reduced pay, which chief executive Stephen Kaufer said would save close to a hundred jobs, CNBC reported, and Tripadvisor was pausing its U.S. 401(k) match. CNBC put the company's headcount at about 4,200 before those cuts, and Tripadvisor's filing counted nearly 3,000 in September 2023, both while TheFork was part of the company. The nearly 1,600 the Globe reported for September 30, 2026 leaves TheFork out, so it isn't a like-for-like count with the earlier two.
In our WARN tracker, Tripadvisor's only notice is TripAdvisor LLC's April 28, 2020 filing in California for 40 jobs in San Francisco, and nothing from the company has appeared since the start of 2025, through both of that year's rounds and the 2026 one. At the close of 2025, 28% of Tripadvisor's employees were U.S.-based. For anyone among them, there's more on Massachusetts unemployment benefits for Needham, where Tripadvisor is based, and on California unemployment benefits for the state of the 2020 San Francisco notice.
A sourced history of Tripadvisor layoffs
November 2026, Hotels and Other restructuring
On November 4, Tripadvisor began cutting roles in non-core revenue lines and adding some product and engineering roles in Experiences, according to its Q3 2026 results release. Hotel-group positions, employees and contractors together, are falling by 60%, the Boston Globe reported.
November 2025, realignment around experiences
An email to staff announced layoffs affecting about 20% of the workforce, counting contractors, across the core brand, Viator experiences and administrative teams, Skift reported. The realignment's severance and related benefit costs were an estimated $33 million that quarter, primarily in Hotels and Other, the 2025 10-K shows.
February 2025, cuts at the Tripadvisor brand
Tripadvisor laid off roughly 75 employees and cut ties with about 90 contractors, two sources told Skift. Viator and TheFork weren't affected, Travel Weekly reported, and the cut spanned the U.S., Europe and Canada.
Third quarter 2023, restructuring and about 125 layoffs
Around 125 employees, roughly 4% of staff, were laid off, with Tripadvisor Core hit hardest and Viator least by Skift's assessment. Restructuring charges were booked $8 million in Core, $3 million in Viator and $7 million in TheFork, the third-quarter 2023 release shows.
April 2020, pandemic cuts and office closings
Management approved about 700 job cuts on April 28, with about 200 more depending on country-by-country consultations, the first-quarter 2020 10-Q says. More than 600 U.S. and Canadian roles were being eliminated and the San Francisco and downtown Boston offices were closing, CNBC reported.
January 2020, about 200 jobs
About 200 employees, roughly 5% of staff, were let go, mostly in the experiences division, CNBC reported.
What to do if you're laid off from Tripadvisor
- File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Tripadvisor'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 Tripadvisor'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.
Tripadvisor layoff and severance questions
How big is Tripadvisor's November 2026 layoff?
Tripadvisor said it was reducing headcount by 425 in the group that includes its hotel booking business, counting employees and contractors together, the Boston Globe reported. Because it's also shifting 150 roles to its experience-booking group, the net loss comes to 275 positions, and the company wouldn't say how many of them belong to employees rather than outside contractors.
What severance has Tripadvisor given laid-off employees?
When it announced about 900 layoffs in April 2020, Tripadvisor said laid-off U.S. and Canadian employees would get severance pay and health insurance continuation “for a period of time,” CBS Boston reported. Since then its filings have reported company-wide accounting costs, an estimated $33 million covering severance and benefits for the late-2025 realignment, per the 2025 10-K, and roughly $15 million to $20 million, mostly severance, expected for the November 2026 cut in the November 2026 earnings release.
Did Tripadvisor's layoffs affect Viator?
Viator was left out of the February 2025 cut, Travel Weekly reported. Its experiences teams were among those in the November 2025 layoffs, Skift reported, though the 2025 10-K put most of that round's severance in Hotels and Other, and the November 2026 plan is shifting 150 roles into the experience-booking group, according to the Boston Globe.
Did Tripadvisor sell TheFork?
Yes, to American Express, in a sale that took effect November 1, 2026, the company's third-quarter results say. In 2020 most of the roughly 850 people Tripadvisor furloughed that spring worked in TheFork's European operations, the 2020 quarterly report shows, and in 2023 TheFork incurred $7 million of the restructuring charge for cost-saving measures, according to the November 2023 results release.