Salesforce to lay off 59 employees in Seattle and Bellevue

Salesforce, a major customer relationship management platform based in San Francisco, is laying off 59 workers in Seattle and Bellevue.

The layoffs will occur at the company’s worksites located at 929 108th Ave. NE in Bellevue and 744 N. 34th Street in Seattle, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN).

“The worksites will not be closed in their entirety,” the WARN notice stated. “The terminations are not the result of, nor will they result in, the relocation or contracting out of the company’s
operations or the affected positions.”

A range of positions will be let go, including software engineers, marketing roles, product managers, and technical support.

Affected employees are expected to be laid off on Oct. 5, and the terminations will be permanent.

Major companies announce layoffs alongside Salesforce

Salesforce’s layoffs are the latest in a round of major companies. Earlier this week, both Zillow and Google announced they were laying off employees across western Washington.

Zillow announced it is cutting more than 91 employees in Seattle, as the company shutters 7% of its global workforce. Zillow did not say if AI played a role in the latest round of cuts, nor did it disclose which teams were impacted.

Google is letting go of 52 employees in its Kirkland, Redmond, and Seattle offices. Software engineers made up the bulk of the layoffs, with managers and designers also affected.

Visa is also conducting layoffs, as it announced last month it was laying off 70 workers at its downtown Bellevue office this fall. The move is part of a broader reduction of approximately 2,600 jobs worldwide — equivalent to 7% of its workforce, according to The Puget Sound Business Journal.

MyNorthwest has reached out to Salesforce for comment.

Contributing: Jason Sutich and Frank Sumrall, MyNorthwest

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