2026 Layoffs Year in Review

Every announcement counted on this page, one row per announcement, newest first. Jobs affected and stores closed are blank where no source states a number. Columns: id, company, company_slug, type, announced_on, headcount, stores_closed, locations, summary, source_url, warn_notice_url, tracker_url, company_profile_url, coverage_urls, provenance, ai_cited, us_states.

The full tracker, all years and every published row, is in the tracker CSV and JSON.

Free to reuse, including the CSV and JSON downloads, with attribution to Metaintro and a link to this page.

Each chart's PNG carries this credit and the as-of date. Link this page, or a state section such as #state-ca, so readers can check the figures.

This report uses only Layoffs Tracker rows whose provenance passes the tracker's own rules. A row must pass all four checks:

1. Published and dated in 2026, on or before the as-of date. The date is the day the company or a filing made the action public, in UTC, not the day the cuts take effect.
2. It links a source: the primary source (a company statement, filing or original news report), a state WARN notice, or a published Metaintro story that reports the announcement.
3. Its figures are in a source. A jobs or stores figure counts only when the row links a verified primary source or WARN notice, or when one of its linked Metaintro stories states that exact number in digits. That is the same check the tracker runs when it records a row. A row that fails is held out entirely, not counted as zero.
4. One row per announcement. A second row for the same company and the same kind of action within 14 days of an earlier row is treated as a repeat, and only the earlier row counts.

286 of 289 published 2026 rows pass, as of November 5, 2026.

Primary source linked

39

WARN notice linked

8

Metaintro coverage only

239

The CSV's provenance column says which kind of source each row links, so you can keep only rows with a primary source or WARN notice.

Jobs affected is counted only when a source states a number, and is never estimated. Every total here is the plain sum of stated numbers over 2026 through November 5, so it is a floor: announcements without a number are left out, and figures are each company's announcement total, which can include jobs outside the US.

Sector: tracker rows do not record an industry, so there is no sector breakdown. Earlier years: these checks are applied to 2026 rows only, so the report makes no comparison with past years.

2026 is not over, so every figure is year to date and updates as announcements are verified, until December 31. The page refreshes every few hours. See the tracker methodology for how rows are recorded.