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.
• Some districts may also try to shrink their staffing pools with attrition rather than layoffs.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2024
• Eye-grabbing headlines about bank failures and layoffs in the tech sector also signal a slowdown.
  — Christopher Decker, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• That’s resulted in hiring freezes and temporary worker layoffs.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 4 Sep. 2024
• There still remains uncertainty about the extent to which those and other layoffs may ripple through the broader labor market.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
• Union officials and worker representatives attacked the idea of closings or layoffs.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2024
• There is growing anxiety in the labor force with layoffs spreading, hiring slowing and organizations cutting perks and other costs.
  — Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
• The planned sale and layoffs, which will affect around 30 employees, should increase income by $20 million, according to Lyft.
  — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2024
• But the additional impact of social unrest, geopolitical conflict, the cost-of-living crisis, the recession, layoffs, and more have pushed people to the edge.
  — Kim Rohrer, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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

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lay off

2 of 2 verb

• 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
• Don’t expect Harris to lay off her criticism of Trump and his plans for the economy.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The company has also announced plans to lay off about 4,000 workers to offset losses.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
• The railroads have estimated that a strike would cost the economy $2 billion a day and could force many manufacturers to shut down and lay off workers.
  — CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022
• Once the interest rates skyrocketed, I was laid off not once but twice in 2023, and was unemployed for a total of four months.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 2 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Nielsen laid off about 9% of its staff earlier this month.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Since then, the company has stopped production, laid off workers and slashed the Ocean’s prices.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 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
• 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
• Goldman Sachs is getting ready to lay off 8 percent of its workforce.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2022
• Editor-in-chief Javier Cabral said they would be laid off if the publication isn’t able to hit 5,000 members by the end of April.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• As part of this pivot, the company will lay off about 40 employees, a third of its workforce.
  — Elaine Chen, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024
• As the contractor was heading to a site in Dallas, Tesla’s construction lead called to say the whole team was laid off.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 3 May 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024