Workforce Reductions

Public companies with the most workforce reductions

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Ranked by total workers named in WARN notices, then by number of notices. 5,995 notices from 26 states fall in the window; 1,044 were matched to 225 publicly traded companies by employer name (130 in the S&P 500). For S&P 500 members, subsidiaries and brands are mapped by hand (for example Frito-Lay to PepsiCo, Optum to UnitedHealth, Federal Express to FedEx); other companies are matched only when the employer name on the notice is the same as the company's name in the SEC's company list, so their subsidiaries are missed. Amended or repeated notices for the same site are counted once. Some states list the expected layoff date rather than the notice date, so a few dates fall after today. Sorting the States column orders by number of states.

% of workforce = workers affected in the window ÷ the company's latest reported total employee count (from its most recent annual report, via SEC XBRL data where tagged, otherwise the Yahoo Finance company profile). The employee count is usually company-wide and often global, while WARN notices cover only U.S. sites in the states collected, so the percentage generally understates the share of staff affected by all cuts; it can overstate it where the employee count leaves out contractors or recently acquired units. When the latest count was taken after the layoffs, the share can look very large, and can even exceed 100% (shown as >100%*), which is common at small biotech companies that cut most of their staff. 2 of 225 companies have no employee count and show n/a.

States collected (each links to that state's official WARN page): AK AZ CA CT DE IA IL IN KS MD ME MT NE NJ NY OK OR PA SC SD TX UT VA VT WA WI. Not yet collected: AL CO DC FL GA HI ID KY LA MI MO NM OH RI TN and the remaining states without a public WARN list. New York's feed covers 2026 only.

Notice links: a ↗ in the Largest notice column opens the state's own page for that notice; direct notice links are available for AZ DE KS ME VT; all other states publish lists or files only, so use the state code in the States column to reach the official WARN page.

Sources: state labor department WARN postings, gathered with the open-source Big Local News warn-scraper; company names and tickers from the SEC's company list; S&P 500 membership from public constituent lists; employee counts from SEC XBRL data and Yahoo Finance profiles. Fetched 25 Oct 2026.