How to Use layoff in a Sentence

layoff

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  • 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
  • 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  • Ramirez said his layoff notice takes effect at the end of this school year if not rescinded.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
  • 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
  • The price hike also comes after Amazon embarked on a series of mass layoffs so far this year.
    — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 26 May 2023
  • The company has now had two rounds of layoffs, totalling about 4,000 jobs, and a third round will begin before the summer.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 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
  • Some of the layoffs announced this week were in preparation for the Skydance transaction that is expected to close next year.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
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lay off

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  • Nadia Worsley, 35, was laid off twice in the last three years.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Economic chaos has led many companies to lay off workers.
    — Eric Sydell, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Goldman Sachs is getting ready to lay off 8 percent of its workforce.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • As part of this pivot, the company will lay off about 40 employees, a third of its workforce.
    — Elaine Chen, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Coinbase will lay off 950 employees as the bear market for digital asset lingers.
    — Rosemarie Miller, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • China’s government pressured businesses not to lay off workers.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Wage growth remains rapid now, but as businesses hold off on expansions or lay off workers, it is expected to slow, which could help price changes for many kinds of services to slow down.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • So far this year, some big banks pulled back from sector-wide climate commitments, many companies and countries are missing their targets, and some high-profile leaders have laid off their sustainability people.
    — Andrew Winston, Fortune, 14 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
  • 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 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
  • 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

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