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What UKG layoffs have meant for employees

Rounded figures put UKG at about the same size just before its two largest cuts. The count reported for July 2024 implies a workforce of roughly 15,700, and the company's own April 2026 figures imply roughly 15,800, our arithmetic on the numbers in the Boston Herald and CBS12. When Anthony Presley wrote on LinkedIn that UKG had shed about a third of its team under private equity, the company disputed it in that same CBS12 report, with a spokesperson saying UKG had more employees than at the time of the 2020 merger. TechTarget found hiring still going on during the 2024 cut, especially in Noida, India. So if your role ended in that round, it ended at a company that was still hiring.

UKG's public growth plans haven't been much of a guide to what came next. The July 2024 layoffs were a shift from 2022, Inside INdiana Business reported, when UKG won state incentives tied to its Indianapolis hiring plans and said it would add 200 people there by the end of 2024. In Uruguay, UKG's local manager had announced plans to grow to 500 employees weeks before the company said it was leaving, according to Prensa Latina. Santa Ana moved from a layoff notice for 195 jobs in the state's July 2024 listing to a closure notice in its January 2026 listing. If your office is the one the company has been talking up, those histories show how little a growth plan can tell you about your own job.

Warning has been short, by the accounts on record. UKG moved the July 2024 news up from the following week because of speculation inside the company, WLRN reported, and some affected staff heard the same day. An employee post the Herald relayed said neither the writer's manager nor that manager's manager knew. In April 2026, a Reddit user quoted by HR Reporter called it the fourth layoff in just under three years and said people in the first found out when return packages came in the mail. Those are individual, unverified posts. Still, if you're at UKG now, they're a reason not to count on your manager hearing before you do.

A new chief executive didn't end the cuts either. Chris Todd wrote the 2024 email, and Jennifer Morgan, whom UKG brought in as chief executive that year, was running the company by April 2026. CBS12 reported that her push for what the company calls an "AI-first company" has included layoffs and moving some jobs overseas, and UKG's April statement named technology changes driven by AI among its reasons. For anyone wondering whether the cuts belonged to one leader's plan, the record runs across both.

State filings catch very little of this. Our WARN tracker shows no UKG notice in Florida, Massachusetts or Indiana, the places the reporting names, and none that matches the April 2026 round, and UKG declined to give an Indianapolis count in July 2024 and didn't respond on South Florida in April 2026. So finding nothing for your state there can't tell you your office was spared. If you're trying to place your own cut, the round's date and the reporting around it will tell you more than a filing count.

If you were asked to stay on for a period like the one in the memo posted on Reddit, the end date, whether severance depends on reaching it and what happens if you land a job first are what decide what that stay is worth. The notices and the reporting name four states, and our unemployment benefits pages for California, Florida, Massachusetts and Indiana cover how claims work in each one.

A sourced history of UKG layoffs

• April 2026, global restructuring of about 950 jobs

  UKG put the cuts at approximately 950 employees, or 6% of its workforce, and CBS12 reported many came from its Sunrise and Weston offices. A memo posted on Reddit, called purported by HR Reporter, had close to 600 leaving immediately and roughly 350 asked to stay for a transition.

• January 2026, Santa Ana closure notice

  A notice dated Jan. 15 listed 209 employees at 5 Hutton Centre, Suite 1100, typed as a permanent closure effective March 16, in California's WARN report.

• November 2025, UKG decides to leave Uruguay

  Managers said at the time that layoffs of the 307 employees would come gradually through mid-2026, and Uruguay's labor director said the decision came from UKG's U.S. offices, according to El Cronista. An extra cash payment and a course appear in Prensa Latina's report.

• July 2024, about 2,200 jobs cut

  CEO Chris Todd's email covered about 2,200 employees, the Boston Herald reported, and Inside INdiana Business put the cuts primarily in the U.S., across all departments. Notices dated July 11 listed 195 jobs in Santa Ana and 12 in San Francisco, in California's WARN report.

• 2023, about 265 jobs

  HRKatha wrote in July 2024 that about 265 jobs, or about 1.7% of the global workforce, were cut a year earlier.

What to do if you're laid off from UKG

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