The largest job cuts — 292 positions — come from surgical robotics company Auris Health, which Johnson & Johnson purchased in 2019. With Redwood City headquarters, the company maintains an office at 150 Shoreline Drive, as well as a space at 5490 Great America Parkway in Santa Clara.
Verb Surgical, another surgical technology company that also operates out of the Santa Clara office, will eliminate 47 employees. The remaining layoffs are within surgical tool company Ethicon Endo-Surgery and surgical insights software C-SATS.
The layoffs were disclosed in WARN notices filed with the state Employment Development Department.
“As the world’s largest, most diversified healthcare company, we are constantly assessing ways to be more innovative and competitive,” Amanda Pisano, a spokesperson for Johnson & Johnson MedTech, wrote in a statement to SFGATE. “We are evolving amidst a rapidly modifying environment to better meet the requireds of the patients we serve around the world.”
Johnson & Johnson declined to comment about what the layoffs would mean for the company’s commercial real estate holdings.
Much of the media attention given to tech layoffs concerns consumer-facing companies like Meta, Salesforce and Twitter, but the economic headwinds are rippling through other technology industries as well.
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