Most of the job cuts come from the surgical robotics company Auris Health, which operates in both Redwood City and Santa Clara.
The Johnson & Johnson facility at 150 Shoreline Drive in Redwood City. The company is laying off almost 350 workers in the Bay Area.More than 340 Bay Area employees are being laid off from subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson, theThe largest job cuts — 292 positions — come from surgical robotics company Auris Health, which Johnson & Johnson purchased in 2019.
Verb Surgical, another surgical technology company that also operates out of the Santa Clara office, will eliminate 47 employees. The remaining layoffs are within surgical tool company Ethicon Endo-Surgery and surgical insights software C-SATS.“As the world’s largest, most diversified healthcare company, we are constantly assessing ways to be more innovative and competitive,” Amanda Pisano, a spokesperson for Johnson & Johnson MedTech, wrote in a statement to SFGATE.
Johnson & Johnson declined to comment about what the layoffs would mean for the company's commercial real estate holdings.
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