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Broadcom's confirmed VMware cuts surpass 2,000 as Massachusetts, NY disclose layoffs

Broadcom has still not said how many of VMware’s 38,000 employees it plans to cut now that the deal is closed, but state-by-state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) disclosures show the layoffs have surpassed 2,000.

04 December 2023 • 2 min read

The total number of confirmed VMware jobs cut by Broadcom have amounted to 2,149 a little more than a week after the chipmaker closed its $6bn deal for the virtualisation all-star. In New York s...

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