{"id":213570,"date":"2026-05-13T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/linkedin-is-reportedly-laying-off-five-percent-of-its-workforce\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:10:08","slug":"linkedin-is-reportedly-laying-off-five-percent-of-its-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/linkedin-is-reportedly-laying-off-five-percent-of-its-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn Is Reportedly Laying Off Five Percent Of Its Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2172239\/linkedin-is-reportedly-laying-off-five-percent-of-its-workforce\/\">LinkedIn Is Reportedly Laying Off Five Percent Of Its Workforce<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2172239\/linkedin-is-reportedly-laying-off-five-percent-of-its-workforce\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2172239\/linkedin-is-reportedly-laying-off-five-percent-of-its-workforce\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 14:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LinkedIn is laying off around five percent of its workforce (approximately 875 people) as part of a reorganization plan.<\/li>\n<li>The layoffs will affect teams across Global Business Organization, marketing, engineering, and product development.<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn&#8217;s CEO, Daniel Shapero, cited the need to scale back investments in areas like marketing and underused office space to focus on higher impact priorities.<\/li>\n<li>The company is closing an office in Graz, Austria, as part of the changes.<\/li>\n<li>The layoffs emphasize LinkedIn&#8217;s commitment to reinventing operations and focusing on areas with the highest return on investment.<\/li>\n<li>This move follows similar steps by Microsoft\u2019s parent company, which offered voluntary buyouts to up to seven percent of its workforce.<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn&#8217;s revenue rose by 12 percent in the first quarter of the current year compared to the same period last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn Is Reportedly Laying Off Five Percent Of Its Workforce https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2172239\/linkedin-is-reportedly-laying-off-five-percent-of-its-workforce\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-13 14:05:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/linkedin-is-reportedly-laying-off-five-percent-of-its-workforce\/l-intro-1778695459.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213572,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213570\/revisions\/213572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}