Southwest To Lay Off 2025 Employees. The job cuts would affect about 1,750 employees, almost entirely in corporate overhead and leadership positions. Southwest airlines luv 1.17% increase;

Southwest airlines said on monday that it is slashing 15% of its corporate workforce, or 1,750 employees. Southwest has said that no less than eleven senior leadership positions (vice president and above), representing 15% of the company’s senior management committee,.