Skift Take
Now that Expedia Group completed its move of Hotels.com and Vrbo onto the Expedia.com tech platform, it saw the opportunity to make further workforce cuts.
Expedia Group announced late Monday that it began notifying 1,500 employees that they would be laid off "in light of the Company’s organizational and technological transformation."
These job cuts include 208 Expedia Group employees in headquarters city Seattle, according to a WARN notice. Those layoffs are expected to start May 1. The layoffs will also take 64 jobs in Austin, Texas, which means some of these likely are coming from Expedia's Vrbo unit.
Expedia Group had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023, and so these new cuts amount to around 8.7%