{"id":230007,"date":"2026-06-11T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/ai-productivity-gains-precede-expeditors-uncharacteristic-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:15:21","slug":"ai-productivity-gains-precede-expeditors-uncharacteristic-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/ai-productivity-gains-precede-expeditors-uncharacteristic-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Productivity Gains Precede Expeditors&#8217; Uncharacteristic Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/sourcing-journal\/logistics\/expeditors-international-layoffs-230-job-cuts-artificial-intelligence-ai-1239006574\/\">AI Productivity Gains Precede Expeditors&#8217; Uncharacteristic Layoffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/sourcing-journal\/logistics\/expeditors-international-layoffs-230-job-cuts-artificial-intelligence-ai-1239006574\/\">https:\/\/wwd.com\/sourcing-journal\/logistics\/expeditors-international-layoffs-230-job-cuts-artificial-intelligence-ai-1239006574\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 10:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wwd.com\">wwd.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expeditors International, a Washington-based freight forwarder, plans to lay off 230 employees by the end of the year, marking a significant shift from its longstanding no-layoff policy.<\/li>\n<li>The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) specifies that layoffs will affect five offices in Washington state starting from August 8, with final cuts expected by December 31.<\/li>\n<li>The largest number of layoffs will occur in the Seattle office, with a total of 68 employees affected. Other affected areas include Federal Way (66 employees) and Lynnwood (59 employees).<\/li>\n<li>The layoffs represent a 15.4% reduction within the company\u2019s U.S. global technology department and constitute 1.1% of Expeditors&#8217; total workforce of roughly 20,361 employees.<\/li>\n<li>The restructuring effort is intended to increase the company&#8217;s productivity and reduce operating costs, partly due to strategic investments in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Productivity Gains Precede Expeditors&#8217; Uncharacteristic Layoffs https:\/\/wwd.com\/sourcing-journal\/logistics\/expeditors-international-layoffs-230-job-cuts-artificial-intelligence-ai-1239006574\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-11 10:13:00 Source Domain: wwd.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/containersabove.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-230007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230007"}],"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=230007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230009,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230007\/revisions\/230009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}