Expedia Group shedding 58 workers in Washington state in newest cuts at journey large – GeekWire

by Kurt Schlosser on Sep 22, 2026 at 4:00 pmSeptember 22, 2026 at 4:00 pm

Seattle-based journey large Expedia Group plans to put off 58 Washington state-based workers in keeping with a submitting despatched to state officers on Tuesday.

The cuts, detailed in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) letter to the Employment Security Department, are anticipated to take impact between Nov. 21 and Dec. 1 on the firm’s waterfront campus in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood.

Impacted positions span throughout know-how, product, and company roles — together with information scientists, software program engineers, finance managers, and senior management.

GeekWire reached out to Expedia for touch upon the explanation behind the layoffs and we’ll replace this story once we hear again.

The newest job eliminations comply with a broader inside shakeup at Expedia, the place high executives just lately cited advances in synthetic intelligence for permitting the corporate to streamline operations and restructure its product and know-how groups.

Last month, Expedia parted methods with at the least eight vice presidents and senior vice presidents in a significant product and know-how reorganization. In an inside memo, firm leaders famous that AI has “radically changed what’s possible,” permitting the journey large to shift towards smaller, sooner groups.

The upcoming job cuts additionally construct on reductions from earlier in 2026. In January, Expedia eradicated positions throughout its engineering, product, and design divisions, which resulted in 162 Washington state workers being laid off.

The firm ended 2025 with about 16,000 workers throughout practically 50 nations, in keeping with its most up-to-date annual report, and mentioned “approximately one half of our people work in technology roles.”

Employment peaked above 25,000 in 2019, fell to 14,800 throughout the pandemic, and rebounded to 17,100 by the tip of 2023, earlier than a collection of restructurings and layoffs lately.

The cuts at Expedia mirror a broader, ongoing pattern throughout Washington’s tech sector, the place main employers proceed to execute focused restructurings moderately than huge single-day layoffs. Over the previous a number of months, staff have seen related incremental reductions at Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, T-Mobile, Uber, Google, Starbucks, Qualtrics, Salesforce and elsewhere.