IBM San Jose layoffs are among new tech industry job cuts in Bay Area

SAN JOSE Two tech companies IBM and Infineon have disclosed new rounds of employment cutbacks that will erase the jobs of more than tech workers in the Bay Area The staffing reductions extend what has turned out to be a challenging two weeks for Bay Area tech workers who are collectively facing the loss of several hundred jobs in the region as a aftermath of latest layoff disclosures by their employers Related Articles Safeway will close Hayward supermarket in but aims to save jobs Bishop Ranch in San Ramon leads Bay Area return to office pace California layoff plans hit workers No in US AI revolution prompts largest part October US layoffs in over years Tech companies chop -plus more Bay Area jobs in new layoff rounds Here are the details for the the majority contemporary job cuts to affect the tech industry in the Bay Area according to new posts by the state Employment Progress Department IBM is cutting positions at Bailey Ave in the Coyote Valley region of South San Jose The information device and application titan plans to conduct the layoffs on Jan according to the WARN letter IBM sent to the state EDD Infineon a semiconductor maker is eliminating jobs on Champion Court in North San Jose These staffing reductions are scheduled to begin taking place on Nov of this year Both companies described the job cuts as permanent Tech companies have revealed plans through a series of newest WARN notices to eliminate jobs according to filings during the last week of October and the first week of November The greater part of these layoffs were disclosed in late October when Amazon Meta Platforms and Applied Materials released separate layoff decisions Earlier this week Hitachi Vantara revealed plans to cut jobs in Santa Clara and Hewlett Packard Enterprise or HPE broadcasted a decision to cut jobs in San Jose In July IBM reported it would close its Almaden Research Center at Harry Rd perched on a South San Jose hillside and move those researchers and workers to IBM s Silicon Valley Lab at Bailey The consolidation was scheduled to be complete by sometime in or even by the end of this year IBM commented It wasn t this instant clear if the layoffs were a product of IBM s decision to merge the two innovation hubs IBM s Almaden Research Center produced numerous cutting-edge scientific and technical breakthroughs over a period of decades We look forward to bringing all of our IBMers under one roof at our Silicon Valley Lab working together side-by-side to drive more collaboration and to continue to deliver new innovations from artificial intelligence to quantum computing for our company and clients an IBM spokesperson revealed in July in connection with the consolidation of the two tech hubs