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
  • More layoffs came in 2023 amid the writers and actors guilds’ strikes.
    Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • The companies say the strikes have forced them to impose those layoffs.
    Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Terms of the deal were not made public, but layoffs were not believed to be part of the arrangement.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The major leadership change came on the heels of a massive layoff.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • But some experts believe Silicon Valley will be able to ease the pain of tech layoffs to the north.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
  • Critics of the layoffs said they were blindsided by the news and that Hartzell has not answered their many questions.
    Char Adams, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Ramirez said his layoff notice takes effect at the end of this school year if not rescinded.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
  • The layoffs could be shifted to a later date, and the exact number is not yet definite.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
  • Perhaps Ward will look more like himself in the second half after this long layoff.
    cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The move is just the latest in what has become a litany of shutterings in Hollywood as the list of film studio layoffs grows longer.
    Essence, 15 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • In their short lives, young adults have had to shoulder relentless inflation, spiraling living costs, a global pandemic, and widespread layoffs.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2024
  • One trend noted in a recent survey of executives involves more companies, roughly one in three, implementing or planning layoffs.
    Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
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lay off

2 of 2 verb
  • Nadia Worsley, 35, was laid off twice in the last three years.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The number of people being laid off is said to be less than 10.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Mendoza knows when to push Severino and when to lay off of him.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
  • 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
  • Hamilton was one of many mine workers who was laid off.
    Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Nielsen laid off about 9% of its staff earlier this month.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Diaz was among the employees who were laid off in April.
    Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
  • In 1932, three years into the Depression, he was laid off.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Apr. 2024
  • In July of that year, the mega-dealer laid off 20 percent of its staff to make up for a shortfall in sales.
    Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Those who worked at the local sawmill and paper mill, two bedrock employers in the area, were laid off in the past year too.
    Kate Payne and David R. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Then in May 2021, he was laid off from his job and was subsequently bored.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Betts worked a full count, laying off a low slider and high fastball with two strikes.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And that could prompt more companies to lay off workers and spark a mild downturn.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • If the show can’t go on, some 100 Bay Area actors and crew members will lose work, and the company will have to lay off staff.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • One of my clients had worked in the finance industry for over 15 years when she was abruptly laid off.
    Sherri Thomas, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The firm also announced plans to lay off about 20% of its U.S. staff, a sign of further disruption.
    Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The club laid off roughly 250 employees over the summer.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Restaurants in Burr Ridge have been hit hard with the virus as many had to close their dining areas and, therefore, lay off staff.
    Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Since then, the company has stopped production, laid off workers and slashed the Ocean’s prices.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Meta declined to share how many employees were laid off.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 17 Oct. 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
  • Some have since been dehorned by the turn in the market, and many are scrambling to cut spending or lay off employees.
    WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Around this period, Musk is mulling the decision to lay off half of Twitter’s staff.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Goldman Sachs is set to lay off around 3,200 employees.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The agency laid off all employees and closed its doors last week, without clear plans to reopen.
    Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
  • The losses combined with the pandemic forced the company to lay off more than half its workforce of 50.
    Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Goldman Sachs is getting ready to lay off 8 percent of its workforce.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2022

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