FedEx Eliminates 856 Jobs as Logistics Layoffs Spread Across Sector

FedEx is laying disconnected 856 employees successful bluish Texas arsenic the logistics elephantine plans to adjacent a installation successful Dallas suburb Coppell.

The institution is permanently shuttering the installation by April 29, 2026, with the phased layoffs starting Jan. 29. Roughly 60 employees volition beryllium fto spell to start, with the remaining terminations occurring separately implicit the adjacent 3 months.

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“This enactment is necessitated solely by our customer’s determination to modulation its concern to a caller determination that volition beryllium managed by a caller third-party logistics provider,” FedEx said successful a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) announcement to the Texas Workforce Commission. FedEx did not place the customer.

According to FedEx, the employees were notified successful advance, with immoderate workers eligible for different roles wrong the company. The institution said it volition supply occupation placement assistance, relocation assistance oregon severance, arsenic applicable.

The layoffs travel arsenic FedEx has been making cutbacks elsewhere amid a wider web accommodation that expects to spot the institution adjacent 30 percent of its bundle organisation facilities wrong 2 years. The Network 2.0 program is designed to consolidate the FedEx transportation web with less stations and routes, and is expected to prevention $2 cardinal upon its completion astatine the extremity of fiscal 2027.

Earlier this year, the Memphis, Tenn.-based transportation courier chopped 305 jobs astatine different tract successful Fort Worth, Texas, earlier cutting different 131 jobs astatine 2 different locations successful adjacent Garland and Plano.

And adjacent its hometown, FedEx laid disconnected 611 employees astatine 2 facilities successful Shelby, Tenn. successful October.

FedEx wasn’t the lone institution successful the apparel proviso concatenation experiencing layoffs successful the Lone Star State past month.

Dillard’s is cutting 93 jobs starting Jan. 12, erstwhile the section store closes a determination successful Plano. That determination served arsenic an anchor store astatine The Shops astatine Willow Bend, which is being remodeled arsenic much of a mixed-use development.

Another large logistics institution is reportedly undergoing its ain right-sizing astatine the absorption level.

Third-party logistics (3PL) supplier Ceva Logistics expects to fto spell of “lots of cardinal managers,” according to a Tuesday study from proviso concatenation work The Loadstar. That study indicates that a “raft of different managers” are either being targeted for layoffs, oregon expected to permission voluntarily.