Leidos layoff notices hit 305 people in non-customer roles

Leidos notified 305 employees last month that their roles were being eliminated “due to ongoing changes and opportunities in our business environment.”

The layoff notices are part of organizational changes the company is making and aim to “help us to operate more efficiently and best position us for the future,” a Leidos spokesman said.

All of the 305 affected employees work in “indirect” positions, so they were not directly involved with government agencies or charge their time to customers.

“We have already placed, or are in the process of placing, several dozen of these people into new direct roles within Leidos,” the spokesman said. “Therefore, we expect the actual number of layoffs to be significantly lower than the total notices issued.”

Leidos has approximately 50,000 employees around the world, so the layoffs represent 0.61% of its workforce.

While a relatively small number, the company has been ravaged on online discussion boards for how the layoffs were handled with complaints of little warning and impersonal communications.

The Leidos spokesman said that for the affected employees, the company is offering severance payments and outplacement assistance.

“We are grateful to each colleague affected by these reductions, and we are committed to supporting them through this transition,” he said.

Leidos is not alone in having to make layoffs in a market still feeling the effects of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Last year, Booz Allen Hamilton announced a 7% workforce cut that impacted 2,500 people.