SAN JOSE — eBay has revealed plans to eliminate nearly 200 Bay Area jobs, grim cutbacks that add to a rising mountain of local layoffs orchestrated by tech and biotech companies, a filing Tuesday with state officials shows.
The online auction and shopping e-commerce company said it would undertake layoffs that are slated to affect eBay workers in San Jose and San Francisco.
The layoffs began Tuesday, eBay stated in an official WARN notice to the state Employment Development Department.
eBay said it has decided to eliminate the jobs of 185 workers at the company’s headquarters complex in San Jose and an outpost site in San Francisco, an eBay executive stated in the WARN letter, which was dated Feb. 7.
The tech titan didn’t reveal how many jobs would be lost in San Jose and how many in San Francisco.
“All affected employees will receive in excess of 60 days advance notice, or pay in lieu of notice, as required by law,” eBay stated in the WARN letter sent to the EDD.
The layoffs were due to take place at the eBay campus in south San Jose on Hamilton Avenue and at a company site in a San Francisco tower on Mission Street, the filing stated.
Since mid-2022, tech and biotech companies have eliminated or are planning to cut well over 19,000 jobs in the Bay Area, this news organization’s assessment of WARN letters and other filings shows.
“This action is expected to be permanent,” eBay wrote in the WARN notice to the EDD. “No affected employee has any bumping rights.”
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