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Expeditors breaks with decades-long employment pledge amid workforce reduction

Expeditors International has departed from a hallmark corporate practice by conducting targeted layoffs, marking a significant shift for the Bellevue-based freight forwarder. Employees report being called into meetings and notified of terminations, with severance packages of three months offered to affected staff. The move represents a break from the company's more-than-40-year implicit employment contract: workers accepted below-market base compensation in exchange for job security. The implications of the decision run deeper than headcount reduction alone. The layoffs join a wider pattern of workforce adjustments across the transportation and logistics sector.