{"id":36246,"date":"2025-10-23T20:51:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/target-is-laying-off-about-1000-corporate-employees-and-cutting-another-800-open-roles\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:51:52","slug":"target-is-laying-off-about-1000-corporate-employees-and-cutting-another-800-open-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/target-is-laying-off-about-1000-corporate-employees-and-cutting-another-800-open-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Target is laying off about 1,000 corporate employees and cutting another 800 open roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68fa90cb599d46a4ccc0c0c5?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Target store front\"\/><figcaption>Target said it was laying off around 1,000 corporate employees.<\/p>\n<p>Erik McGregor\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Target is laying off 1,000 corporate employees and cutting 800 open roles.<\/li>\n<li>The layoffs affect 8% of Target&#039;s global headquarters team, aiming to simplify workflows.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;The truth is, the complexity we&#039;ve created over time has been holding us back,&quot; Michael Fiddelke said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Target is laying off around 1,000 corporate employees and cutting another 800 open roles, the company said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a memo to staff that the roles being cut accounted for about 8% of its global headquarters team.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Fiddelke, Target COO and incoming CEO, said in the memo that the changes were intended to help the company move faster and simplify workflows.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The truth is, the complexity we&#039;ve created over time has been holding us back,&quot; he said. &quot;Too many layers and overlapping work have slowed decisions, making it harder to bring ideas to life.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is breaking. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target said it was laying off around 1,000 corporate employees. Erik McGregor\/LightRocket via Getty Images Target is laying off 1,000 corporate employees and cutting 800 open roles. The layoffs affect 8% of Target&#039;s global headquarters team, aiming to simplify workflows. &quot;The truth is, the complexity we&#039;ve created over time has been holding us back,&quot; Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}