SUNNYVALE — Intuitive Surgical has determined to slash a whole bunch of South Bay jobs on account of a discount in shifts and hours for one in every of its superior medical tools models, in response to an official state submitting.
The maker of superior robots for surgical procedures is reducing 331 jobs at 1050 Kifer Street in Sunnyvale, the tech big reported in a WARN letter it despatched to the state Employment Growth Division.
Intuitive Surgical is conducting the job cuts though the corporate has orchestrated quite a few property purchases in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara.
The corporate has spent no less than $271 million shopping for websites within the two South Bay cities in recent times. The strikes are poised to supply further elbow room for future growth.
Over the 12 months that resulted in June 2025, Intuitive Surgical produced a revenue of $2.61 billion on income of $9.15 billion, in response to the Finance Charts web site. For the calendar yr 2024, the corporate earned $2.36 billion on income of $8.35 billion.
Sunnyvale-based Intuitive Surgical stated the job cuts have been scheduled to happen round Oct. 27 of this yr, in response to the WARN letter.
“Intuitive Surgical will cease operations for graveyard and weekend shifts for Ion Instruments & Accessories production, as well as related logistics and quality operations activities in Sunnyvale,” Peyton Grant-Tran, an Intuitive Surgical folks providers specialist, wrote within the WARN discover. “All roles supporting these shifts will be eliminated.”
The tech firm can be taking steps to transition to a five-day workweek for its manufacturing groups, the corporate acknowledged.
“We will transition our 4×10 day shift (four days a week, ten hours each day) to a 5×8 shift schedule (five days a week, eight hours each day) for all production teams in Sunnyvale,” Grant-Tran reported within the WARN discover. “Intuitive anticipates this will result in job eliminations.”
The corporate added that it didn’t have closing figures for the variety of layoffs at current.
It’s potential that the last word variety of layoffs associated to those actions could be lower than the corporate’s present estimate.
“We encourage all affected employees to apply for open roles,” Gran-Tran stated within the WARN submitting. “The level of interest and interview process will inform the final layoff figure. It is our goal to retain as many employees as possible by continuing their employment with Intuitive.”
