Vail Resorts to Lay Off 64 Employees in Corporate Restructure

The original version of this story was published on The Inertia.

Vail Resorts announced in September 2024 that it would soon undergo a “two-year transformation plan.” It said the plan is a step toward its new phase of “growth and global expansion.” 

On April 2, 2025, 64 employees in various Human Resources roles in Broomfield, Colo., were told their jobs would be the first of the company’s layoffs executed as a part of that plan. A Notice of Operating Unit Closure was submitted to the office. It stated that the entire operating unit would be shut down on June 2, 2025.

Vail Resorts Layoffs: A Step Toward ‘Global Expansion’

Vail released a press release in September announcing this “two-year Resource Efficiency Transformation Plan.” It stated that it would lay off 14% of its corporate workforce in accounts receivable, payroll, and IT positions. According to the resort, those jobs would instead be outsourced or consolidated.

“We saw that we needed to head in this direction to enable future growth and even to enable the global expansion that we aspire to,” Vail Resorts CEO Kirsten Lynch said. “So really getting our operations, a global shared service model and expanding our workforce management puts us in a situation where we can scale and get operating leverage as we expand further into Europe or grow the company.”

The restructuring will save the company $100 million as it prepares for international acquisitions. The Colorado-based company currently owns and operates 42 ski resorts across North America, Europe, and Australia, as well as hospitality, retail, and rental operations.

“In addition to its 37 North American mountain resorts, the company owns and operates three mountain resorts in Australia,” the company wrote in the 2024 press release. “Over the past two years has expanded into Europe, with the purchase of Andermatt-Sedrun and Crans-Montana Mountain Resort in Switzerland.”

Vail Resorts’ remaining planned layoffs are said to impact less than 2% of its operational workforce. When the 2-year plan was announced, the company employed more than 7,000 year-round employees and 45,000 seasonal employees.