USAA continues to hire but this reprioritization is necessary due to changing business needs. Impacted employees are treated with care and compassion and provided with assistance to find new roles inside and outside of the organization. Back in March, the San Antonio-based financial giant laid off nearly 500 workers, representing just over 1% of its workforce which USAA officials said in a statement that allowed the company to invest in "technology and modernizing our business while reducing costs by exiting unused offices, reducing management layers and expenses and realigning staffing and work to our most important priorities." USAA also let go 130 employees on Feb. 2 from its real estate lending group due to the slowing national housing market.