product · May 16, 2026

GitLab Opens Voluntary Separation Window and Reduces Country Footprint by Up to 30% in Act 2 Plan

GitLab opened a voluntary separation window on May 12, 2026, as part of its Act 2 restructuring, with managers holding retention conversations and final scope shared on the June 2 earnings call. The company plans to reduce its presence in up to 30% of the nearly 60 countries it operates in, flattening from eight management layers. GitLab reaffirmed it is not an AI optimization or cost-cutting exercise and will reinvest savings into infrastructure like agent-specific APIs and reworked CI/CD. The company has about 1,800 employees outside the US.