{"id":795417,"date":"2026-05-14T08:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:31:27","slug":"cisco-announces-4000-job-cuts-after-record-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795417\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco announces 4,000 job cuts after record quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cisco<\/a> plans to cut about 4,000 jobs this quarter as the Silicon Valley networking giant redirects investment toward artificial intelligence, security and related growth businesses.<\/p>\n

The reductions amount to less than 5% of Cisco\u2019s workforce, CEO Chuck Robbins told employees Wednesday in a message posted on the company\u2019s blog<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most notifications are expected to begin Thursday and continue globally, he said.<\/p>\n

The company did not say how many jobs would be eliminated in San Jose, the Bay Area or California.<\/p>\n

Cisco announced the cuts the same day it reported its highest-ever quarterly revenue<\/a>: $15.8 billion, up 12% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n

The company said demand is growing from large cloud and internet companies that are spending heavily on AI data centers. Cisco has received $5.3 billion in AI-related infrastructure orders so far and now expects that total to reach about $9 billion by the end of the fiscal year, far above its earlier forecast of $5 billion.<\/p>\n

Cisco said the layoffs are part of a plan to move more money and workers into faster-growing parts of the business, including AI, cybersecurity and the chips and high-speed networking equipment used in data centers.<\/p>\n

In a securities filing, Cisco said the plan could cost up to $1 billion before taxes, mostly for severance and other payments to departing employees. About $450 million of those costs are expected this quarter, with the rest coming in fiscal 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe companies that will win in the AI era will be those with focus, urgency, and the discipline to continuously shift investment toward the areas where demand and long-term value creation are strongest,\u201d Robbins wrote in the message to employees.<\/p>\n

Cisco had about 86,200 employees as of July 26, 2025, according to its most recent annual report.<\/p>\n

The restructuring follows several rounds of tech layoffs in the Bay Area and across the industry as companies shift spending toward AI infrastructure and automation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cisco\u2019s own results show why investors are focused on that transition: networking product orders rose more than 50% year over year in the quarter, and data center switching orders grew more than 40%, according to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cisco plans to cut about 4,000 jobs this quarter as the Silicon Valley networking giant redirects investment toward…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[691,15173,64,276,242,5782,67,132,68,324557],"class_list":{"0":"post-795417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-tech-layoffs","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-us-and-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116572001865190023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}