Cisco Bay Area job cuts widen with hundreds more worker layoffs

SAN JOSE, California — Cisco Systems has disclosed plans to jettison well over 600 jobs in the Bay Area, an ominous signal that the tech sector’s brutal season of layoffs in this region has extended into 2023. The fresh round of Cisco job cuts affects workers in San Jose, Milpitas and San Francisco, official filings with the state Employment Development Department show. Cisco’s plans for the job cuts in the Bay Area were sketched out in new WARN notices that the tech titan provided to the EDD. An estimated 10 tech or biotech companies have decided to chop at least 200 jobs in the Bay Area in t...