On July 6, 2026, two months after closing its $2.5 billion all-stock merger with Udemy, Coursera disclosed a workforce reduction plan in an SEC 8-K filing. The filing puts the cost at $8 to $11 million in severance and healthcare benefits, paid out through the second half of 2026. It does not say how many people are affected.
The 150 figure is a layoffhedge estimate, our average best guess, not a company-disclosed number. Coursera and Udemy have run three layoffs between them since 2023, and those filings paired the charges with headcounts: severance came out between $53,000 and $64,000 per eliminated job. Dividing the disclosed $8-11 million by that range gives 125 to 200 jobs. We publish the midpoint, roughly 150, about 6% of the combined 2,650-person workforce. If the cuts skew toward lower-cost offices such as India and Turkey, the true number runs higher; if they concentrate on US corporate roles, it runs lower. We will update this page if Coursera discloses a figure or a WARN notice surfaces.
The filing also states this plan is not the whole program. Coursera is targeting $150 million in gross cost cuts from the merger and says broader initiatives "may result in additional costs and benefits" beyond this plan. Udemy CEO Hugo Sarrazin left with no role when the deal closed; Coursera CEO Greg Hart runs the combined company. Coursera stock is down about 16% this year, and the combined company trades near $1.7 billion, below the $2.5 billion implied when the deal was announced.