Are there layoffs today?
Not in the corroborated sense. As of Thursday, August 13, 2026, no job-cut announcement carried a figure that two independent newsrooms agreed on. That is not the same as a quiet market: 5,426 jobs are on official WARN notice filed in the last 30 days, and those filings run about 60 days ahead of the payroll actually shrinking.
TeamPredict Layoff Watch
Computed from primary sources, not from customer data
5,426
jobs on official WARN notice, last 30 days
Across 119 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
- Bumble Bee Foods, LLCLos Angeles County, CA197
- SodexoOrange County, CA164
- ServiceNow, Inc.Santa Clara County, CA154
Counted across California, Washington and Maryland, the states whose labor departments publish machine-readable filings.
Source data: California (through 2026-08-11), Washington (through 2026-08-12), Maryland (through 2026-08-10).
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.
What was announced
US unemployment claims rise but remain at healthy level
8 newsrooms · no corroborated job figure · The Hill
Oracle plans more layoffs before next fiscal quarter
4 newsrooms · no corroborated job figure · HR Executive
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Why the two numbers rarely match
An announcement is a decision a company has chosen to talk about. A WARN notice is a legal filing an employer has to make before it can act, and it names a site, a date and a headcount. Big employers often file weeks before they announce, small ones often file and never make the news at all, and plenty of announcements cover global headcount that never touches a US filing. The announcement number tells you what the market is talking about. The filing number tells you what is already in motion.
Neither number is a national total. The filings cover the states that publish machine-readable data, which this page names, and the announcements cover what reached two newsrooms in the last day.
Common questions
- How many jobs were cut today?
- No announcement in the last day carried a job figure that two independent newsrooms agreed on, so this page counts zero rather than repeating a single outlet's number.
- What is a WARN notice?
- A WARN notice is the advance warning the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires an employer to file with a state labor department before a mass layoff or plant closure, generally 60 days ahead. It is a legal filing, not a press release, which is why it lands before the news does.
- Where do these numbers come from?
- The filings come straight from state labor department data. Counted across California, Washington and Maryland, the states whose labor departments publish machine-readable filings. The announcement figures come from the day's coverage, counted only where two independent newsrooms agree. None of it comes from TeamPredict customer data.
The departures nobody files a notice for
Layoffs come with 60 days of legal warning. Resignations come with two weeks. TeamPredict reads the public LinkedIn signals your team is already giving off and flags who looks likely to leave, so you get lead time on the exits that actually cost you.