December 14 Is the Newest Week on the WARN Calendar: 6,274 Workers Scheduled

The WARN calendar has a new final week. The week of December 14 now carries 6,274 reported workers scheduled for layoffs, making it the second-heaviest week in the six-week window the Layoff Atlas registry currently shows — just 199 workers behind the week of November 9.

That is a notable rebound. The week before it, December 7, holds only 898 workers, the lightest week in the window by a wide margin. The calendar dips to its quietest point and then jumps back to near the top in a single week.

The six weeks ahead

Here is the full six-week picture as of November 9, 2026, counting reported workers by effective date:

• November 9: 6,473 workers
• November 16: 6,202 workers
• November 23: 6,207 workers
• November 30: 5,916 workers
• December 7: 898 workers
• December 14: 6,274 workers

The six-week total is 31,970 workers. November's four weeks account for 24,798 of them, about 78 percent of the total. December's two weeks so far account for 7,172, about 22 percent — and nearly all of December's share sits in the December 14 week.

The shape of the calendar is what stands out. Four November weeks cluster tightly between 5,916 and 6,473 workers. Then December 7 falls to 898, roughly one-seventh of the week before it. Then December 14 climbs back to 6,274, almost seven times the December 7 figure. The quiet week is an interruption in the pattern, not the start of a wind-down.

What is already on the December 14 calendar

A week total is the sum of every filing with an effective date in that week, so the 6,274 figure is built from many filings, large and small. Two of the larger ones are already public.

The biggest is Fender Musical Instruments, which filed a 533-worker temporary layoff notice for its Corona, California facility. The notice went in on October 15, 2026, and the layoffs take effect December 14 — exactly 60 days later, the federal WARN Act's standard notice period. Fender's filing alone accounts for about 8 percent of the December 14 week.

ServiceNow also has filings landing that week. An earlier pair of notices from October 13, 2026 — 2 workers in Santa Clara and 18 in San Diego — take effect December 14, adding 20 more workers to the week's total.

Together, those two employers account for 553 of the 6,274 workers. The remaining 5,721 are spread across the rest of the filings with December 14 effective dates. That spread matters: a week built from many employers is less exposed to any single company's decision than a week dominated by one filing.

The national picture

The registry's 90-day window currently holds 694 notices covering 64,044 reported workers, with 30 notices carrying no worker count. Those are reported plans, not confirmed job losses — WARN notices describe what employers have announced, and some announced layoffs are later postponed, reduced, or cancelled.

Two states continue to dominate the totals. California leads with 21,514 reported workers and Washington follows with 17,411. Together they account for 38,925 workers, about 61 percent of the national total. Illinois (3,432), Texas (2,750), and Maryland (2,475) round out the top five, which together hold 47,582 workers — about 74 percent of all reported workers in the window.

The concentration is worth keeping in mind when reading any single week's number. A large share of the December 14 total, like the totals before it, will come from California and Washington filings. The Fender filing in Corona is one example; the registry's California page remains the busiest source in the country.

How to read the December 14 number

Three cautions apply to this figure, as they do to every week on the calendar.

First, 6,274 is a scheduled total, not a count of people who have already lost jobs. Every worker in it is attached to a notice with a December 14 effective date, and effective dates can move. Employers can postpone a layoff with a new notice, and in some cases the cuts are cancelled outright.

Second, the total will keep changing. The December 14 week only appeared on the calendar recently, and new notices with that effective date can still arrive. Earlier weeks in this same window have shifted by hundreds of workers as filings were added. The December 14 figure should be treated as a snapshot, not a final count.

Third, the registry does not cover every layoff. WARN only applies to employers with 100 or more full-time employees, and only to layoffs that meet the size thresholds. Smaller cuts, and cuts at smaller employers, never appear here. Thirty notices in the current window have no worker count at all, so their workers are missing from the totals entirely.

The bottom line

The week of December 14 is the newest week on the WARN calendar, and it arrives heavy: 6,274 workers scheduled, the second-heaviest week in the current six-week window. It follows the lightest week in the window, December 7, with just 898 workers — a sevenfold jump in one week. The calendar is not winding down for the holidays. After a single quiet week, the scheduled layoffs climb straight back to near the top of the range.

Data source: Layoff Atlas