Ups Layoffs 2024 Air Force. Managers and contractor positions will make up most of the layoffs. The layoffs will eliminate around 2.4 percent of ups’s global workforce of roughly 495,000, with about 75 percent of the job reductions coming in the first half of 2024.

Deploying large groups of a base’s airmen together could help unit cohesion, the air force hopes — but critical missions like cybersecurity could suffer. Managers and contractor positions will make up most of the layoffs.