Seattle-based travel giant Expedia Group plans to lay off 58 Washington state-based employees according to a filing sent to state officials on Tuesday.
The cuts, detailed in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) letter to the Employment Security Department, are expected to take effect between Nov. 21 and Dec. 1 at the company’s waterfront campus in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood.
Impacted positions span across technology, product, and corporate roles — including data scientists, software engineers, finance managers, and senior leadership.
GeekWire reached out to Expedia for comment on the reason behind the layoffs and we’ll update this story when we hear back.
The latest job eliminations follow a broader internal shakeup at Expedia, where top executives recently cited advances in artificial intelligence for allowing the company to streamline operations and restructure its product and technology teams.
Last month, Expedia parted ways with at least eight vice presidents and senior vice presidents in a major product and technology reorganization. In an internal memo, company leaders noted that AI has “radically changed what’s possible,” allowing the travel giant to shift toward smaller, faster teams.
The upcoming job cuts also build on reductions from earlier in 2026. In January, Expedia eliminated positions across its engineering, product, and design divisions, which resulted in 162 Washington state employees being laid off.
The company ended 2025 with about 16,000 employees across nearly 50 countries, according to its most recent annual report, and said “approximately one half of our people work in technology roles.”
Employment peaked above 25,000 in 2019, fell to 14,800 during the pandemic, and rebounded to 17,100 by the end of 2023, before a series of restructurings and layoffs in recent years.
The cuts at Expedia reflect a broader, ongoing trend across Washington’s tech sector, where major employers continue to execute targeted restructurings rather than massive single-day layoffs. Over the past several months, workers have seen similar incremental reductions at Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, T-Mobile, Uber, Google, Starbucks, Qualtrics, Salesforce and elsewhere.
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