---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001531177-25-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SGHT"
cik: "0001531177"
company_name: "Sight Sciences, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:41:41.162999+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sight Sciences cuts 20% workforce; CCO departs; reaffirms FY revenue guidance

## Summary
- Reduces headcount by 43 (~20% of global workforce); expects cash restructuring charge of $2.7M-$3.0M in Q3 2025.
- CCO Matthew Link steps down effective Aug 31; eligible for severance including 1-year base salary and vesting of 61,675 RSUs.
- Reaffirms FY2025 revenue guidance of $72M-$76M; updates adjusted opex guidance to $95M-$99M from $101M-$105M.
- Annualized savings of ~$11.9M from workforce reductions alone.
- Creates segment-specific leadership for Surgical Glaucoma and Dry Eye; delays certain R&D spend.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001531177-25-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SGHT
- cik: 0001531177
- company_name: Sight Sciences, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05, 5.02, 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531177/000153117725000007/0001531177-25-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531177/000153117725000007/sght-20250827.htm

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## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  Sight Sciences, Inc. announced a restructuring with charges of cash restructuring charge of approximately $2.7 million to $3.0 million primarily in the third quarter of 2025, consisting mostly of one-time employee severance affecting global operations, with specific changes in the United Kingdom (reduce its headcount by 43 employees, or approximately 20% of its global workforce, including up to four UK-based employ).
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: cash restructuring charge of approximately $2.7 million to $3.0 million primarily in the third quarter of 2025, consisting mostly of one-time employee severance
  - Affected area: global operations, with specific changes in the United Kingdom
  - Headcount: reduce its headcount by 43 employees, or approximately 20% of its global workforce, including up to four UK-based employ
  source text: On August 27, 2025, Sight Sciences, Inc. (the “Company”) informed its employees that it is implementing a targeted plan, commencing immediately, intended to reduce operating expenses, improve cost efficiencies, and better align its operating structure for long-term, profitable growth (the “Plan”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531177/000153117725000007/0001531177-25-000007-index.htm

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