The New York Times said it will offer buyouts to newsroom and business staffers in its latest effort to cut costs.

No specific number was mentioned in the memo that went out to staffers on Wednesday morning. Only last week Executive Editor Dean Baquet said that there would be no more layoffs in 2016.

In the memo to staffers, the Times seemed to waffle on that pledge.

“While we are not announcing layoffs today, our need to reduce costs means that we cannot rule them out in the future,” said the memo signed from Baquet, Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., CEO Mark Thompson and Editorial Page Editor James Bennett.

The latest round of cuts took the guild by surprise.

“We only found out this morning,” said Anthony Napoli, the unit’s manager at the News Guild.

The buyout offer will go out to the 1,100 employees covered by the News Guild of New York, which includes about 850 newsroom employees and business, advertising and security personnel.

The offer will be three weeks’ pay for each year of service up to a maximum of 104 weeks. Management employees will also be offered the buyouts.

“In order to make essential investment while preserving our financial health, we need to do everything we can to contain and — where we can — reduce our costs,” the memo said.

After offering buyouts in 2014, the company went ahead and laid off another 20 people after falling short of its target of 100 voluntary buyouts.

The latest round of buyouts comes after the company in late April revealed it was gutting the International New York Times in a 70-person buyout of the pre-press and editing departments in its Paris office.

The company will have no reporters working in the Paris office of its international paper.