How to Use layoff in a Sentence

layoff

1 of 2 noun

• The band finally has a new album after a three year layoff.
• More layoffs are expected at the factory later this year.
• The company announced the layoff of several hundred employees.
• This marks the third layoff for 100 Thieves in less than two years.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2023
• The newsroom’s union staged a one-day walkout in protest of the layoffs.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
• Some people have been complaining about the length of the layoff for the teams who don’t play in the wild-card round.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The past years have seen a number of major layoffs at Google.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• The layoffs are expected to take place on June 29, the filings show.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024
• The companies say the strikes have forced them to impose those layoffs.
  — Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Headlines about mass layoffs at big tech firms and Wall Street banks added to the feeling of economic gloom.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 June 2023
• The layoffs come as the company prepares for a transition in CEOs.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 19 Jan. 2024
• And the possibility of a long layoff is nothing new to the playoffs.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Ramirez said his layoff notice takes effect at the end of this school year if not rescinded.
  — Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 23 Mar. 2024
• Amazon, which acquired Twitch in 2014, recently made layoffs at Twitch as part of a large wave of job cuts.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 June 2023
• Coding jobs are plentiful across industries, and the pay is good—even after the tech layoffs of the past year.
  — Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2023
• It’s been a brutal several months for those who work in the news industry, with too many layoffs to count.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
• Adverse changes in the labor market create wage cuts and layoffs.
  — Amiah Taylor, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• As the strike against the Big Three reaches its sixth week, layoffs continue at the Detroit automakers.
  — Sara Powers, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
• In the wake of tech’s mass layoffs, the market has shifted to favor hiring companies.
  — Jeff Yasuda, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Still, the threat of layoffs continued to loom, with many staffers unsure of their positions and unclear as to when the cuts would arrive.
  — Dan Rys, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
• The price hike also comes after Amazon embarked on a series of mass layoffs so far this year.
  — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 26 May 2023
• There are no layoffs as part of the move, nor any changes to the content slates, or operational or reporting changes.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
• Vowing to avoid layoffs may seem like a stretch to some—but that’s the type of assignment Mastantuono embraces.
  — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
• That means that after its cuts to staff last year, Wednesday’s layoffs could affect more than 600 workers.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
• The layoffs don’t violate an agreement with the city about the company’s recent move to Cityplace.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The New York Times reported on the engineering team layoffs too.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 11 Jan. 2024
• The past year was a turning (and at times tipping) point in the white-collar workforce, which was rife with layoffs and return-to-office mandates.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2023
• The excitement comes at the end of a tough year for the video game industry marked by potentially thousands of layoffs.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• April’s tech layoffs exceed the 352 Bay Area job cuts that tech companies reported in March.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
• The reduction in ranks, the result of a fiscal crisis that led to layoffs and attrition, was followed by one of the worst periods of crimes in the city, Mr. Corey said.
  — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023

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lay off

2 of 2 verb

• The number of people being laid off is said to be less than 10.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• Hawkins said the year they got married, each was laid off from their corporate jobs in the same week.
  — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• Nielsen laid off about 9% of its staff earlier this month.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• Betts worked a full count, laying off a low slider and high fastball with two strikes.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• As a result, more money flowed to shops that weren’t planning on laying off anyone in the first place.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• Solar companies say they’ve been shoved to the edge of a cliff, forcing them to lay off workers or even shut down.
  — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• As companies lay off employees, many have seen their stock prices rise in response to the news.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Since then, the automakers have furloughed or laid off thousands of non-union workers at plants in five states.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• The company has cut $7.5 billion in costs and laid off thousands of employees.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• In the final days of 2022, after Musk had laid off most of Twitter’s staff, the site began crashing entirely for many users.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• After working as a journalist for twenty-five years, I was laid off from the paper.
  — John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
• The DeSantis campaign had to lay off more than one-third of its staff in a campaign shake-up to realign its efforts in late July.
  — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 2 Aug. 2023
• Erin Kelley didn’t lose her home or workplace but has been laid off as a bartender at Sheraton Maui Resort since the fire.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2023
• Since the pandemic ended, dozens of theaters across the country have closed; many others have laid off staff or cut down their seasons.
  — Rachel Shteir, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2023
• Some of his victims had to pay the IRS by using their own funds, taking out lines of credit, or laying off employees.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2023
• Ford laid off 600 workers at a facility in Wayne, Michigan, because there was no work for them because of the strike.
  — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
• The bank will lay off up to 3,200 workers this month amid a slump in global dealmaking activity.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 21 Jan. 2023
• Auto parts suppliers have also laid off thousands as their orders from the Big Three dried up.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• Too many jobs, too few workers Early in the pandemic, many restaurant workers got laid off.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 13 Aug. 2023
• The Los Angeles Times laid off 20 percent of its newsroom in January.
  — Becket Adams, National Review, 24 Mar. 2024
• Care Access, meanwhile, laid off hundreds of employees. $30 for your first 3 months.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 11 Oct. 2023
• When the restaurant’s servers were laid off, a manager allegedly told them the layoffs were not permanent.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• The sale includes Bend’s 10 Barrel Brewing, which also has a brewpub in Portland and which laid off staff earlier this year.
  — Ameunier, oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2023
• The company had begun laying off much of its workforce in November last year.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2023
• Impossible and its chief rival, Beyond Meat, have both laid off roughly 20% of their employees in the past year.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2023
• The changes come after DeSantis made two big staff cuts in the past few weeks, laying off about a third of his staff in late July as the campaign faced financial trouble.
  — Michelle L. Price, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
• To make matters worse, she was unexpectedly laid off from her job not long after.
  — Alejandra Campoverdi, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2023
• Artsy laid off 35 employees — about 15% of its workforce.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
• Profit growth could then suffer, and companies may lay off workers.
  — Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
• The governor’s campaign is experiencing a fund-raising shortfall and last month laid off more than a third of its staff.
  — Nicholas Nehamas, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024