TeamPredict Daily · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
New Jersey adds 374 layoffs after 2,440 announced in July alone
New Jersey saw 2,440 layoffs announced in July alone. Now another 374 jobs are being lost. WARN filings show 110 notices covering 4757 jobs filed in the past 30 days.
TeamPredict Layoff Watch
Computed from primary sources, not from customer data
4,757
jobs on official WARN notice, last 30 days
Across 110 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.
229
jobs announced today, corroborated
Counted only where two independent newsrooms printed the same figure. From 1 story below.
Largest filings in the window
- VisaSan Mateo County, CA320
- EchoStar Corporation (Germantown EXP facility)Montgomery County, MD240
- Bumble Bee Foods, LLCLos Angeles County, CA197
- SodexoOrange County, CA164
- ServiceNow, Inc.Santa Clara County, CA154
- LAZ Parking California (9610 Sky Way)Los Angeles County, CA139
Counted across California, Washington and Maryland, the states whose labor departments publish machine-readable filings.
Source data: California (through 2026-08-11), Washington (through 2026-08-14), Maryland (through 2026-08-14).
Not counted, because their published data is more than three weeks behind: Texas (last filing 2026-06-23). A state that has stopped publishing has not stopped laying people off, so leaving it out beats counting it as a zero.
Unreachable when this page was built: Oregon.
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Today's stories (6)
New Jersey saw 2,440 layoffs in July, 374 more coming
New Jersey saw 2,440 layoffs announced in July. Another 374 jobs are being lost now. The state continues to see steady job cuts across multiple employers.
New Jersey 101.5 (via Google News)
Sanofi cuts 229 Blueprint Medicines jobs, closes Cambridge offices
Sanofi is laying off 229 Blueprint Medicines staffers and closing Cambridge offices. The cuts come a year after Sanofi acquired Blueprint for $9.1 billion. Fierce Pharma, STAT, and People Matters confirmed the layoffs.
Fierce Pharma (via Google News) · STAT (via Google News) · People Matters - HR News (via Google News)
Bank of America bans consecutive remote work days
Bank of America will not let employees work remotely two days in a row. The new policy tightens existing work-from-home rules. HR Dive and People Matters reported the change.
HR Dive · People Matters - HR News (via Google News)
Ferguson shipyard cutting a quarter of workforce
Ferguson shipyard is cutting a quarter of its workforce. BBC Business and The Times reported the reduction. The shipyard has not disclosed the total number of jobs affected.
BBC Business · The Times (via Google News)
Winnebago announces layoffs at Forest City plant
Winnebago announced layoffs at its Forest City plant. The RV maker is consolidating production. The company has not disclosed how many jobs will be cut.
desmoinesregister.com (via Google News) · Trucks, Parts, Service (via Google News)
Ryder Trucks cutting 73 jobs in Fayetteville
Ryder Trucks is cutting 73 jobs in Fayetteville. ABC11 News reported the layoffs. The company has not stated when the cuts will take effect.
ABC11 News (via Google News)
Questions people asked today
- How many WARN jobs were filed in the past 30 days?
- 110 WARN notices covering 4757 jobs were filed in the past 30 days across California, Washington, and Maryland.
- What was the largest WARN filing in the past month?
- Visa filed the largest WARN notice for 320 jobs in San Mateo County, California on July 31, 2026.
- How many jobs did Sanofi cut at Blueprint Medicines?
- Sanofi is laying off 229 Blueprint Medicines staffers and closing the Cambridge offices a year after the $9.1 billion acquisition.
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 2026-08-18 14:47 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.