TikTok will lay off several dozen employees based in Bellevue as part of an operational restructuring.
First reported by The Puget Sound Business Journal, TikTok Shop, the platform’s e-commerce division, will eliminate 75 local positions in October. The affected employees all worked at Lincoln Square North in Bellevue (located at 700 Bellevue Way N.E.). This is the second year in a row that Bellevue-based TikTok jobs will be cut, as 65 employees were laid off in 2025.
The layoffs were listed on the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) layoff and closure database. The layoffs are expected to take place Oct. 19…