https://layoffcheck.com/companies/blue-origin Layoff and WARN notices reported for Blue Origin. en-us https://layoffcheck.com/companies/blue-origin#2025-02 https://layoffcheck.com/companies/blue-origin#2025-02-442 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT Blue Origin laid off more than 1,000 employees on February 13, 2025, cutting roughly 10% of its workforce as CEO Dave Limp moved to reduce the organizational bloat that followed years of rapid hiring. In an all-staff email sent that morning, Limp wrote that the company had "grew and hired incredibly fast" and that the growth had produced "more bureaucracy and less focus than we needed." The cuts targeted engineering, R&D, project management, and management layers. Affected employees received severance pay, COBRA health coverage, and career support services. The announcement came less than a month after the inaugural flight of the New Glenn rocket in January 2025, and with approximately $10 billion in launch contracts in the pipeline. Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has faced sustained pressure to close the gap with SpaceX after years of development delays. https://layoffcheck.com/companies/blue-origin#2023-10 https://layoffcheck.com/companies/blue-origin#2023-10-1320 Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:00:00 GMT Blue Origin reported a workforce reduction in Seattle in October 9, 2023. https://layoffcheck.com/companies/blue-origin#2023-09 https://layoffcheck.com/companies/blue-origin#2023-09-1405 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:00:00 GMT Blue Origin reported a workforce reduction in Seattle in September 6, 2023.