Employer · WARN Act history · Professional & Technical Services
Cisco Systems
9,221 workers across 4 WARN notices, primarily in CA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 9,221
- Workers cut
- 4
- WARN notices
- 1
- State
- 2,305
- Avg / notice
Cisco Systems has 4 recorded WARN filings affecting 9,221 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Cisco Systems has 4 recorded filings covering 9,221 workers across 1 state, primarily CA, the 16th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Cisco Systems drives the bulk of Professional & Technical Services WARN layoffs — 43% of the 21,639 workers tracked across 166 Professional & Technical Services employers, the #2 largest in the sector.
How 9,221 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
Cisco Systems city concentration · single-city dominant
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
97.6% of named-city WARN workers for Cisco Systems sit in San Jose (9,000 of 9,221).
Lead city San Jose · 97.6% · 3 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer CISCO-SYSTEM · Cisco Systems 9,221 workers · 4 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNK · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-DUAL · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-LIGHT 4 filings
- WORK-TOP #16
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-UNK Runway n/a
- STAT-SINGLE CA
- BOOK-DUAL 2 agencies
- TYPE-LAYOFF 4 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Cisco Systems WARN filings · notice runway
Top 4 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- San Jose, CA · Layoff · Information Technology 5,000 workers · filed Feb 14, 2024 · 0d runway
- San Jose, CA · Layoff · Information Technology 4,000 workers · filed Nov 16, 2022 · 0d runway
- McCarthy Blvd Milpitas, CA · Layoff · Professional & Technical Services 157 workers · filed Aug 13, 2025 · 0d runway
- Francois Blvd San Francisco, CA · Layoff · Professional & Technical Services 64 workers · filed Aug 13, 2025 · 0d runway
Median forward runway across 4 dated filings: 0 days (4 under 60d · 0 at/above 60d · 4 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Cisco Systems WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2024 → 2025: WARN workers affected for Cisco Systems fell from 5,000 in 2024 to 221 in 2025; notice count rose from 1 to 2.
- 2022 → 2024: WARN workers affected for Cisco Systems rose from 4,000 in 2022 to 5,000 in 2024; notice count held from 1 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2025.
Where Cisco Systems Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Cisco Systems is in the 5k-15k bucket (#16 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Aug 2025.
WARN Notice History
2025
McCarthy Blvd Milpitas, CA · Professional & Technical Services
Effective: Aug 13, 2025
157
workers
Filed Aug 13, 2025
Francois Blvd San Francisco, CA · Professional & Technical Services
Effective: Aug 13, 2025
64
workers
Filed Aug 13, 2025
2024
San Jose, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Feb 14, 2024
5,000
workers
Filed Feb 14, 2024
2022
San Jose, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Nov 16, 2022
4,000
workers
Filed Nov 16, 2022
Questions about this Cisco Systems record
What is the largest Cisco Systems WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for San Jose, CA on Feb 14, 2024, covering 5,000 workers in Information Technology.
Where were Cisco Systems's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name McCarthy Blvd Milpitas, Francois Blvd San Francisco, and San Jose; together they form 4 mass-layoff filings sourced from California EDD and the public WARN archive. States represented in this record: CA.
Where is Cisco Systems's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
97.6% of named-city WARN workers for Cisco Systems sit in San Jose (9,000 of 9,221).
Does Cisco Systems's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2022 through 2025 across 3 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Cisco Systems's record? ▼
No trustworthy advance-notice runway can be derived from these rows because the source dates are equal, missing, or retroactive.
See also: CA WARN filings · Professional & Technical Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Cisco Systems notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.