RAND Corp., a Santa Monica-based think tank highly dependent on federal government funding, shed more than 11% of its workforce on Tuesday, Oct. 21, a spokesman for the nonprofit said late Monday.

The layoffs were first mentioned publicly by RAND on career networking website LinkedIn.

RAND spokesman Jeremy Rawitch confirmed the layoffs but did not provide a reason for them, or specify how many jobs were cut and where.

According to RAND’s 2023 tax documents, the nonprofit employed 2,396 people in more than 50 countries, suggesting the layoffs could have surpassed 260 people. The company hiring in recent years was up 8.3% from 2,211 people employed in 2021, according to tax filings obtained from Guidestar , an online database that tracks nonprofits.

RAND made the “difficult but

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