931 jobs cut, about 8% of staff
Source-backed update · Reported layoffs · Block
EventInternal email sent March 25, 2025
ReportedMarch 25, 2025
Added to WorkHushMarch 25, 2025
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Sources
TechCrunch · Mar 25, 2025Supports: Published Dorsey's internal email cutting 931 roles (about 8% of roughly 11,300 staff), citing strategy, performance and management layers, and saying the cuts were not about AI or a financial target.Open the sourceBizWest · Mar 26, 2025Supports: Reported a Colorado WARN notice covering 21 remote Block employees, effective May 24, 2025.Open the sourceCalifornia EDD WARN report · Jun 30, 2025Supports: Lists a Block notice dated March 25, 2025, covering 240 permanent layoffs at 1955 Broadway, Oakland, effective May 24, 2025.Open the source
Not in the sources
The figures come from a leaked internal email from CEO Jack Dorsey that Block did not comment on in these sources; state WARN notices cover 240 employees in Oakland, California, and 21 remote workers in Colorado, but other locations are not given.
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