Broadcom Inc. California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Broadcom Inc. reported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and these figures come from the state's report as retrieved on Sep 10, 2026.

How much notice the law requires

California's WARN Act requires 60 days of advance written notice before a covered mass layoff, and its only statutory exception is a physical calamity or an act of war — far narrower than federal law's three. Who is covered and how the thresholds are counted is in our California WARN Act guide.

Broadcom severance: what to check before you sign

A severance offer is not the notice pay the WARN Act describes. Severance you were already promised — in a contract, a handbook, or a union agreement — cannot be used to satisfy that obligation, though Labor Code section 1402 does let an employer reduce a back-pay award by voluntary payments it was never required to make. A release may also give up more than you expect. Justin reviews severance agreements before workers sign. What to check before you decide is in our full guide to the California WARN Act.

Two things worth doing this week either way. File for unemployment now — WARN money does not reduce it, and the filings here run through Dec 19, 2025, so you do not have to wait for your last day. And keep every document, including the notice itself and anything showing when it arrived.

Questions people are asking

Where a layoff can raise a legal question

A layoff is lawful on its own, and nothing below is a statement about Broadcom. These are the places California law can still come into play, depending on the facts of your own situation.

• The severance you were asked to signA release can give up claims you did not know you had, and the terms are sometimes negotiable.
• How you were selectedA reduction in force still cannot be used to cut someone for a protected reason such as age, disability, pregnancy, or a complaint they made.
• Your final paycheckCalifornia sets when final wages are due at termination, and unpaid time or accrued vacation can carry penalties on top of the wages.

General information about California law, not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship.

What has been reported

Press coverage of this layoff, summarized and attributed. This is reporting rather than the filing itself, and we did not independently verify it.

Broadcom told the state Employment Development Department on Oct. 17, 2025 that it would cut 247 employees at 3401 Hillview Ave. in Stanford Research Park, Palo Alto Online reported. Vice president for human resources Jill Turner wrote that the action was "expected to be permanent" but that "this will not result in closure of the entire facility, but will only impact certain employees selected for layoff."

More than half of the eliminated positions are engineers, according to Palo Alto Online's review of the notice: 113 end-user sales engineers, 23 end-user field application engineers and 21 research-and-development software engineers, plus 25 client services consultants and 26 inside sales representatives. KRON4 reported the cuts take effect Dec. 19, 2025 and reach staff in sales, customer success, account management and solutions.

KRON4 placed the reduction against Broadcom's 2023 acquisition of VMware and its partnership with OpenAI to build custom AI accelerator chips. Palo Alto Online noted the filing landed the same month SAP disclosed 82 layoffs at its campus across the street and Amazon disclosed 176 across five Palo Alto offices.

Sources: Palo Alto Online (opens in a new tab) · KRON4 (via AOL) (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The 247 affected positions are in Palo Alto.
• The shortest gap between notice and last day here is 63 days, close to the statewide median of 61 days across every notice on file.
• By headcount it sits in the top 15% of the 630 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The notice arrived in October 2025, the busiest month in this dataset: California employers filed 217 WARN notices statewide.
• The 247 workers leaving Broadcom Inc. re-enter a job market where Santa Clara County unemployment stood at 4% in June 2026, below the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).

These are counts and comparisons drawn from the published filings, not findings about Broadcom.

Free job-search help near Palo Alto

America's Job Center of California is the state's no-cost network for laid-off workers: help filing and keeping unemployment benefits, federally funded retraining, and résumé and interview coaching. Your WARN notice may name one; this is the closest to the site in this filing.

• NOVAworks (opens in a new tab)

  456 W. Olive Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 · 408-730-7232

  Comprehensive center (full services on site) · about 6.3 miles from the Palo Alto site

Locations and hours change — confirm before visiting, or find another center with the EDD's center locator (opens in a new tab). Directory: U.S. Department of Labor, Jul 31, 2026; distances are straight-line from the address in the filing.

Other layoffs filed in Santa Clara County around the same time

77 employers have WARN notices on file in Santa Clara County, covering 12,657 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Amazon7,123 workers
• Meta Platforms, Inc.4,150 workers
• Oracle America, Inc.1,250 workers
• Jabil, Inc.817 workers
• Cisco Systems, Inc.692 workers
• Walmart587 workers

Listed because they appear in the same county in the same public data. No connection between these employers is implied.

California wage claims filed against Broadcom

California employers face claims under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), which lets an employee sue for civil penalties over Labor Code violations on behalf of the state. The state publishes every filing. One PAGA case naming this employer is on that record, including the settlements below.

These are outcomes in other people’s cases, obtained by other lawyers, taken from the state’s public filing record. They are not results of this firm, and past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. What any individual recovers depends on their own hours, pay records, and dates.

• Court-approved settlement · 2025

  $1,375,000

  Workers sued Broadcom Corporation and CA, Inc. for wage and hour violations, alleging they were required to work off-the-clock and through meal and rest periods, had their hours rounded to the employer's advantage, and were not reimbursed for home office expenses. The court granted final approval of a class/PAGA settlement that resolves these claims without the defendants admitting liability.

  Covered All current and former non-exempt and exempt employees (excluding the Chief Executive Officer(s)) who worked for Defendants in California at any time from May 10, 2020 through December 13, 2021. The settlement resolved class claims as well as PAGA penalties.

  Attorneys' fees

  $458,333

  Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara · 21CV384293 · Broadcom denied liability; a settlement is not an admission.

A PAGA case is not a class action, and there is nothing to opt out of. A PAGA settlement resolves civil penalties owed to the state — most of which the state keeps — and it does not necessarily resolve your own unpaid wages, missed break premiums, or final-paycheck penalties. If you worked here and were not paid correctly, that is a separate question worth asking about. How California wage claims work.