On May 27, 2026, Webflow CEO Linda Tong published a blog post titled "Evolving Webflow for the agentic web," announcing that the company had restructured its team and operating model. The post did not disclose how many employees were affected. Tong used the word "many," and as of publication the number has not been confirmed in press coverage. Based on Webflow's prior layoff pattern in July 2024, which cut 8% of the workforce, and a current headcount of approximately 1,740, the affected group is estimated at around 140 people. layoffhedge will update this entry when a verified number is published.
The restructure was executed without advance notice. Multiple employees documented on LinkedIn that they discovered the news at 7am when their laptops were locked, with no email warning, no calendar invite, and no internal communication ahead of the public blog post. One former employee's post describing the lockout drew more than 180 reactions within hours of being published.
Tong, who became CEO in June 2024, framed the cuts as a strategic pivot rather than a cost reduction. She positioned Webflow as building "the agentic web marketing platform" for teams that need dynamic experiences, experimentation capabilities, and integration with existing marketing systems. The argument is that AI is "rewriting the rules" for marketing teams and that Webflow's product surface needs to change accordingly.
The severance package for US-based departing employees is 16 weeks of base pay plus one additional week per year of service, six months of COBRA health coverage, and the ability to keep their company laptops. International employees were offered localized support packages, the details of which Tong did not publish.
The international piece is the part that is going to draw the most scrutiny. Several Webflow employees on closed work permits, including H-1B holders in the US and equivalent visa categories in other countries, lost their jobs in this cut. Closed work permits typically tie employment authorization to a single employer, and a layoff starts a short clock to either find a new sponsor or leave the country. The 7am lockout method made it impossible for affected workers to plan around the timing.
Webflow is the third major no-code or website-builder layoff in a single week. ClickUp cut 290 people on May 21, citing a "100x organization" restructure around AI agents. Wix announced 800 to 1,000 cuts on May 25, the largest layoff in the company's 20-year history, with internal language naming AI tools as the reason multiple development and design roles are no longer required. Webflow joins that group on May 27, citing the same broad thesis under different vocabulary.
The category that built itself by removing engineers from the website creation process is now being remade by AI agents that remove the human builders entirely. Linda Tong's "agentic web marketing platform" framing is the same restructuring argument as ClickUp's "100x organization" and Wix's reallocation around the Base44 AI brand. Three companies, three different vocabularies, one underlying claim: the headcount math for traditional no-code SaaS no longer pencils against AI-native competitors.
Webflow's prior layoff was an 8% cut in July 2024, framed at the time as a focused trim. May 2026 is the second round in under two years and the second under Tong's tenure. The combination of an undisclosed headcount number, a 7am laptop lockout, and a strategic memo published the same morning is the most aggressive procedural pattern in the 2026 no-code group. It also makes Webflow the cleanest test case for whether AI-pivot restructurings are being communicated to investors and employees with the same level of detail.
For context on the broader pattern, the same week saw Acrisure announce 2,250 cuts citing "technology, AI and digital platforms" and Intuit confirm 3,000 cuts naming Anthropic and OpenAI as the bets driving the restructure. Webflow is the smallest of the recent AI-cited cuts by absolute number, but the lack of a disclosed figure and the lockout method make it the most procedurally striking of the group.