--- title: "Bending Spoons' Airtable cuts total 190 jobs, and a law firm asks if 60 days' notice was given" description: "California's WARN filing puts 190 jobs and a January 15, 2027, effective date on layoffs the acquirer would not count. Cuts were announced in early October with staff leaving that same week; a plaintiffs' firm opened an investigation on October 22 asking whether the 60 days of notice the WARN Act requires were ever given." publisher: "The Inference" section: "Policy & Labor" published: 2026-10-26T13:24:57.856Z modified: 2026-10-26T13:24:57.856Z canonical: https://theinference.org/article/bending-spoons-airtable-cuts-total-190-jobs-and-a-law-firm-asks-if-60-days-notice-was-given language: en keywords: "Bending Spoons, Airtable, Layoffs, WARN Act" --- # Bending Spoons' Airtable cuts total 190 jobs, and a law firm asks if 60 days' notice was given > California's WARN filing puts 190 jobs and a January 15, 2027, effective date on layoffs the acquirer would not count. Cuts were announced in early October with staff leaving that same week; a plaintiffs' firm opened an investigation on October 22 asking whether the 60 days of notice the WARN Act requires were ever given. The number [Bending Spoons](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/bending-spoons) never published is now on file with the state. [A California WARN notice filed October 15, 2026](https://todayslayoffs.com/layoffs/airtable-2026-10-15-1126/), under "Formagrid Inc. dba [Airtable](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/airtable)" says 190 jobs end January 15, 2027, at One Front Street, 28th floor, San Francisco [1]. When Bending Spoons, the Nasdaq-listed Italian group that buys and overhauls older software names like [Evernote](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/evernote), [Vimeo](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/vimeo) and [AOL](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/aol), closed its $1.285 billion purchase of Airtable on September 4, it said only that a "large portion of the pre-acquisition team" would leave with "substantial separation packages," and declined to share a headcount [3][4]. The filing supplies one. ## The dates do not line up, and a law firm noticed On October 22, Strauss Borrelli, a plaintiffs' class-action firm, [opened a WARN Act investigation](https://straussborrelli.com/2026/10/22/airtable-warn-act-investigation/) into whether Airtable gave the 60 days' written notice the federal law requires before a mass layoff [2]. If it did not, the workers may be entitled to 60 days of pay and benefits [2]. The arithmetic is the problem: the separations were announced in early October, with affected staff told they would leave by the end of that week, per [the company's own October posts and reporting filed by October 12](https://www.jingletree.com/bending-spoons-wants-to-revive-software-castoffs-berkshire-is-backing-the-plan-289986.html) [3][4], and the state's effective date is January 15, 2027 [1]. What the pre-acquisition team built is still shipping: Airtable's October 21 Fall Release added Omni 2.0, Canvas in open beta, bring-your-own agents, agent permissions and an audit log [7]. *Chart: **Revenue more than doubled in five quarters, almost all of it bought** Bending Spoons quarterly revenue in millions of dollars, climbing from about 259 in Q1 2025 to 704 in Q2 2026* *Quarterly revenue in millions of US dollars from SEC filings, retrieved October 26, 2026; Q3 and Q4 2025 revenue not separately reported in that sequence. Growth is mostly acquisitions, per the company's own disclosures. [9]* ## The machine eating the team is also writing the code CEO [Luca Ferrari](https://theinference.org/markets/people/luca-ferrari) told Bloomberg that AI writes at least 90% of Bending Spoons' code, and called the "SaaSpocalypse" selloff of SaaS companies a buying opportunity with a double payoff: cheaper targets and cheaper development [8]. The capital behind that thesis is serious. [Berkshire Hathaway](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/berkshire-hathaway), under new CEO [Greg Abel](https://theinference.org/markets/people/gregory-e-abel), has committed $930 million, the latest $330 million at $33 a share via a Form 6-K; the stock jumped 41% on the news before giving back ground to close Monday at $45.65 [5]. Q2 revenue was just over $704 million, up 126%, with net income of $177 million, up 171% [5]; the chart above shows how much of that climb is bought rather than built. ## Who pays, who bets [Bay Area planned tech cuts have passed 14,000 in 2026](https://www.techtimes.co.uk/airtable-workforce-cuts-bending-spoons-acquisition-1809206), above last year's 10,170 [4]. For readers deciding on BSP stock before the next print, which carries the first Airtable days: the upside is renewals holding after the team that built the product is gone; the risks are WARN back pay if the law firm is right [2] and churn like Evernote's, where subscribers in Switzerland paying through Google Play now face Evernote Personal Annual rising to CHF 163 a year from December, up from CHF 109, about 50% more [6]. The company that owns the rest of this story, our earlier pieces on the September funding round and the October staff cuts [links below], is pricing both sides of that bet. Links: [our September 12 profile of the roll-up model](https://theinference.org/article/bending-spoons-hunts-fallen-unicorns-most-of-its-growth-is-bought) (/article/bending-spoons-hunts-fallen-unicorns-most-of-its-growth-is-bought), [our October 11 pricing piece](https://theinference.org/article/bending-spoons-paid-1-28-billion-for-airtable-at-2-7-times-sales-glide-prices-the-exit-at-25-a-month) (/article/bending-spoons-paid-1-28-billion-for-airtable-at-2-7-times-sales-glide-prices-the-exit-at-25-a-month) and [our October 12 cuts piece](https://theinference.org/article/bending-spoons-cuts-much-of-airtable-s-staff-weeks-after-1-28-billion-deal-glide-sells-a-25-replacement) (/article/bending-spoons-cuts-much-of-airtable-s-staff-weeks-after-1-28-billion-deal-glide-sells-a-25-replacement). ## Takeaway California's WARN notice gives a number Bending Spoons would not: 190 Airtable jobs end January 15, 2027, months after staff were told to leave, and a plaintiffs' firm is investigating whether the law's 60 days of notice were ever given. ## Sources 1. [Todays Layoffs, Airtable to lay off 190 workers in San Francisco (California WARN notice), October 2026](https://todayslayoffs.com/layoffs/airtable-2026-10-15-1126/) 2. [Strauss Borrelli PLLC, Airtable WARN Act Investigation, October 22, 2026](https://straussborrelli.com/2026/10/22/airtable-warn-act-investigation/) 3. [CNBC via Jingletree, Bending Spoons wants to revive software castoffs. Berkshire is backing the plan, October 2026](https://www.jingletree.com/bending-spoons-wants-to-revive-software-castoffs-berkshire-is-backing-the-plan-289986.html) 4. [Tech Times UK, Bending Spoons axes large portion of Airtable team as Bay Area tech job losses top 14,000, October 21, 2026](https://www.techtimes.co.uk/airtable-workforce-cuts-bending-spoons-acquisition-1809206) 5. [WebProNews, Berkshire Hathaway takes its Bending Spoons bet to $930 million under Greg Abel, October 20, 2026](https://www.webpronews.com/berkshire-hathaways-greg-abel-buys-930-million-stake-in-bending-spoons/) 6. [Koru, Evernote price increase 2026: what changes in December, October 20, 2026](https://www.koru.do/en/blog/evernote-price-increase-2026) 7. [Creators Toolbox, Airtable's Fall Release makes bases ready for agents, October 21, 2026](https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/airtable-fall-release-2026-agents) 8. [Hamidun News, CEO de Bending Spoons: la IA escribe el 90% del codigo, October 2026](https://news.hamidun.com/es/news/14216/ceo-de-bending-spoons-la-ia-escribe-el-90-del-codigo-y-el-sa) 9. [Bending Spoons, quarterly figures from its SEC filings, retrieved 26 October 2026](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0002004711) --- Bending Spoons' Airtable cuts total 190 jobs, and a law firm asks if 60 days' notice was given — The Inference. Canonical: https://theinference.org/article/bending-spoons-airtable-cuts-total-190-jobs-and-a-law-firm-asks-if-60-days-notice-was-given