Boeing plans to cut about 5 percent of commercial staff

Stephanie Pope told commercial-airplane employees on Nov. 9 that the division will cut about 5 percent of its workforce through attrition and involuntary layoffs, with notices beginning in December, because slower production increases leave it overstaffed. CNBC and The Seattle Times reviewed the message, and neither gave a layoff count. The Seattle Times said the commercial division had nearly 50,500 of Boeing's nearly 182,000 employees as of December 2025.