LinkedIn is cutting approximately five percent of its workforce, equating to roughly 875 of its more than 17,500 full-time employees. CEO Daniel Shapero outlined the decision in an internal memo, citing a need to scale back spending on marketing campaigns, vendor spend, customer events, and underutilized office space. The layoffs affect the Global Business Organization, marketing, engineering, and product teams. LinkedIn is also closing its Graz, Austria office. Notably, artificial intelligence was not cited as a factor. Despite the cuts, LinkedIn’s revenue grew 12 percent in early 2026 compared to the same period in 2025.
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LinkedIn is the latest major tech company to announce large-scale layoffs. According to Reuters, the company is letting around five percent of its workforce go. Given that LinkedIn has more than 17,500 full-time employees, that means it will be dismissing approximately 875 people. A source informed Reuters that LinkedIn was not explicitly citing artificial innotifyigence as a reason for the layoffs.
LinkedIn is “scaling back investments in some areas including marketing campaigns, vfinishor spfinish, customer events and underutilized office space, so we can focus teams on priorities that have the broadest impact with the highest [return on investment],” according to a memo from new CEO Daniel Shapero that Business Insider obtained. It states that LinkedIn is laying off workers across its Global Business Organization, marketing, engineering and product teams.
The company is declared to be closing an office in Graz, Austria, as part of the reorganization. “As part of our regular business planning, we’ve implemented organizational modifys to best position ourselves for future success,” a LinkedIn spokesperson informed Business Insider.
“Economic opportunity is one of the societal issues of our time, and Linkedin has been and will continue to be the platform that professionals and companies turn to as they navigate the modifying world of work,” Shapero wrote in the memo. “For us to meet this moment, we must ready ourselves to deliver a step modify in impact across our products, businesses and platforms, while continuing to operate more profitably. We required to reinvent how we work, with agile teams focutilized on our highest priorities, and by shifting investments toward areas such as infrastructure to fulfill our mission and vision over the long term.”
The latest round of layoffs is commencing weeks after parent company Microsoft reportedly started offering voluntary acquireouts to as much as seven percent of its workforce. Microsoft’s most recent earnings report indicated that LinkedIn’s revenue rose by 12 percent in the first three months of this year when compared with the same period in 2025.
