TeamPredict Daily · Thursday, August 6, 2026
Etsy cuts 12% of staff as jobless claims edge up
Etsy's new CEO is cutting 12% of the company, and Zillow is cutting 91 jobs in Washington. Underneath the headlines, 88 WARN notices covering 4,786 jobs have been filed in the last 30 days.
TeamPredict Layoff Watch
Computed from primary sources, not from customer data
4,786
jobs on official WARN notice, last 30 days
Across 88 filings. A WARN notice is the advance warning an employer must file with a state labor department before a mass layoff, generally 60 days ahead.
0
jobs announced today, corroborated
Counted only where two independent newsrooms printed the same figure. No announcement today carried a figure two newsrooms agreed on.
Largest filings in the window
- VisaSan Mateo County, CA320
- Monterey Mushrooms, LLCSanta Clara County, CA253
- EchoStar Corporation (Germantown EXP facility)Montgomery County, MD240
- Wind & Sea RestaurantOrange County, CA198
- SodexoOrange County, CA164
- AWCS, LLC (Cottonwood Post-Acute RehabYolo County, CA158
Counted across California, Washington and Maryland, the states whose labor departments publish machine-readable filings.
Source data: California (through 2026-07-31), Washington (through 2026-08-05), Maryland (through 2026-08-05).
Not counted, because their published data is more than three weeks behind: Texas (last filing 2026-06-23), Oregon (last filing 2026-05-13). A state that has stopped publishing has not stopped laying people off, so leaving it out beats counting it as a zero.
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Today's stories (4)
Etsy is slashing 12% of its workforce
Etsy is cutting 12% of its workforce as new CEO Kruti Patel Goyal reshapes the company. Quartz carried it first and two more newsrooms followed the same day. For a People lead the useful detail is the shape rather than the size: a new chief executive reorganising early usually means roles consolidated, not a hiring pause.
Quartz · also reported by Stocktwits, TradingView
Zillow cuts 91 jobs in Washington, senior roles first
Zillow is cutting 91 jobs in Washington, with senior roles taking the heaviest share, according to GeekWire. Two newsrooms carried it. Watch which functions absorb a cut like this. One that lands on senior individual contributors reads very differently to the people who stay than one that flattens management.
GeekWire · also reported by komonews.com
Jobless claims rose to 199,000 and stayed low
Weekly jobless claims rose to 199,000 and still came in below forecasts, staying historically low. Five newsrooms carried it, which makes it the most widely covered labour figure of the day. Claims are the fastest read available on the labor market, and a rise that stays this low is cooling rather than cracking.
Quartz · also reported by Daily Jefferson County Union, wtop.com, Ottumwa Courier, Goshen News
July jobs report expected to show soft hiring
The July jobs report is expected to show a soft pace of hiring, MarketWatch reports, and two newsrooms are previewing the same read. If it lands that way the practical effect on a People team is a slower external market. Fewer of your people get pulled away, and the ones who stay still expect the pay conversation to move.
MarketWatch · also reported by The Economic Times
Questions people asked today
- How many jobs are on official WARN notice right now?
- 88 filings covering 4,786 jobs in the last 30 days, across California, Washington and Maryland. Texas and Oregon are left out because their published data is more than 21 days behind.
- Which employer filed the largest WARN notice this month?
- Visa, with 320 workers noticed in San Mateo County, California. ServiceNow filed for 154 and Chime Financial for 135.
- Why does a WARN filing show up before the news does?
- A WARN notice is a legal filing an employer has to make before a mass layoff, generally 60 days ahead, and states publish what they receive. An announcement is a communications decision, so it can come weeks later or not at all.
Layoffs are the ones you can see coming. Resignations are not.
A WARN notice gives a state 60 days of warning. Nobody files one before they resign. TeamPredict reads the public LinkedIn signals your own team is already giving off and flags who looks likely to leave, so you get the same lead time on the departures that actually hurt.
Assembled automatically at 2026-08-06 13:30 UTC. Every figure on this page is computed in code from the sources linked above and from state labor department filings; the editorial layer is written to those figures and rejected if it introduces any others.