BAY AREA, CA — The e-commerce veteran eBay is laying off about 800 employees worldwide — including roughly a third in the Bay Area — just days after announcing its $1.2 billion acquisition of secondhand fashion platform Depop, according to state filings and company statements.
The layoffs will be immediate and affect about 243 workers at eBay’s headquarters in San Jose and another 28 employees at its South of Market offices in San Francisco, based on Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filings submitted to California labor officials.
The company denied that the layoffs were connected to the acquisition. “We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce,” an eBay spokesperson said in a statement.
EBay reported 12,300 employees globally, of which only 7,200 are in the United States, as of Dec. 31, 2025. The company said the cuts are distributed across departments, according to reports.
Under federal WARN law, companies with 100 or more employees must provide 60 days’ notice for layoffs affecting at least 50 workers at a single site.
California recorded nearly 56,000 layoffs since July. About 9,000 of those layoffs are happening in the Bay Area, reflecting ongoing economic shifts across technology, manufacturing, and consumer sectors.
In the coming months, statewide filings show continued reductions tied to major tech- and philanthropic organizations linked to Meta, as well as affiliated entities such as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
Meta first announced 600 layoffs in October. The first round started in December. Another 173 employees in San Mateo, Sunnyvale, and San Francisco will be leaving by the end of March, according to WARN reports.
In Solano County, nearly 600 manufacturing jobs are expected to disappear by April 1, including 237 at Valero Energy facilities in Benicia as refinery operations wind down. Another 290 layoffs in manufacturing-related jobs are planned at Harbinger Production in Vallejo.
Papa John’s announced massive layoffs at 300 of its restaurants by the end of 2027 in a move to cut costs and weed out underperforming locations. The chain will shut 200 locations by the end of this year. The locations have not been identified. Concord and Walnut Creek both have a location.
In Sonoma County, layoffs total at least 382 positions across the wine and hospitality sectors. Cuts include operations tied to E. & J. Gallo Winery and Jackson Family Wines in Healdsburg, as well as closures affecting J Vineyards & Winery facilities.
The news that Amy’s Drive-Through in Rohnert-Park would be closing shook fans, who quickly recounted fond memories of the eatery. Those layoffs will be final March 8.
The largest single layoff in Sonoma County involves 134 workers at Safari West in Santa Rosa, which is restructuring after 35 years as a privately operated wildlife preserve while transitioning to nonprofit governance.
The wildlife park — known as the “Sonoma Serengeti” — in Santa Rosa will be restructuring as a nonprofit after 35 years as a privately-operated wildlife preserve. Despite reporting the closing, Safari West will remain open as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. The transition, according to a press release, is designed to “strengthen Safari West’s mission in Research, Education and Conservation.”
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