New Mexico Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

New Mexico is one of the quietest states in the Layoff Atlas registry. The state's full archive holds 116 WARN notices reporting 14,853 workers affected — and in 2026, only two new notices have appeared, covering 62 workers between them. There are no future effective dates on the books at all.

New Mexico's numbers come entirely from attributed secondary records: zero direct government filings, and zero eligible official filings in the last 365 days. A blank stretch in the data is not proof that no layoffs happened — only that no connected source published a notice.

The national picture

Nationally, the registry currently holds 662 notices covering 62,934 reported workers over the last 90 days, with 30 worker counts unavailable. California leads the country with 20,862 workers, followed by Washington at 17,387, Illinois at 3,432, Maryland at 2,667, and Virginia at 2,556.

The weeks ahead are uneven. The week starting November 11 carries 6,146 reported workers, the week of November 18 carries 5,939, and the week of November 25 is the heaviest on the calendar at 9,858. The following two weeks drop sharply — 1,990 and 1,746 — before rising to 5,491 for the week of December 16.

New Mexico contributes nothing to those upcoming weeks: with zero future effective dates, the state appears in none of the week's totals.

What New Mexico's archive actually contains

The 116 notices span more than a decade, and the pattern is lumpy rather than steady. The heaviest year was 2020, with 27 notices covering 3,508 workers — the pandemic year, when the state's hospitality and service employers were hit hard. The archive's second-heaviest year, 2016, recorded 17 notices and 2,267 workers. By contrast, 2023 brought 16 notices but only 1,689 workers.

The recent trend is a sharp slowdown. In 2024 there were six notices covering 672 workers; in 2025, four notices covering 655 workers; and in 2026 so far, two notices covering 62 workers. That is the quietest year in the archive on both counts — but it is also the year with the thinnest source coverage, so the decline should be read as "few notices reached the registry," not as a confirmed collapse in layoff activity.

Four of the 116 notices carry unavailable worker counts, so the 14,853 total is a floor, not a ceiling. And all of these are reported plans, not confirmed job losses: a WARN notice records an employer's stated intention, and the eventual headcount can differ.

The two 2026 filings

Both of this year's notices are in Albuquerque, in Bernalillo County. Atkore HDPE filed on April 27, 2026, affecting 51 workers with an effective date of June 30, 2026. Conduent filed on June 29, 2026, affecting 11 workers, with no effective date published. Together they account for all 62 workers reported in New Mexico in 2026.

Neither filing is large by national standards, but in a state where notices are rare, each one carries more weight. Two filings is the entire year's record.

The largest filings in the archive

The biggest single notice in New Mexico's archive belongs to UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center in Rio Rancho, which reported 641 workers affected with an effective date of January 1, 2024. That one filing accounts for more than four percent of all workers ever reported in the state.

The next largest are Tattooed Chef in Albuquerque, with 272 workers effective August 30, 2023; Intel in Rio Rancho, with 227 workers reported in July 2025; The GEO Group in Hobbs, with 203 workers effective June 30, 2025; and U.S. Cotton in Rio Rancho, with 175 workers effective August 31, 2025. ECS in Albuquerque reported 140 workers in September 2025, and Jabil in Albuquerque reported 130 workers in September 2024.

Why New Mexico's data looks different

Most states in the registry mix direct government filings with secondary reports. New Mexico has no direct government records at all: zero direct records against 116 attributed secondary records. The state's source was last checked on November 11, 2026, and remains connected through secondary feeds rather than an official feed.

That matters for interpretation. When a state publishes no official WARN list in a machine-readable form, notices surface only when secondary archives pick them up. Gaps in the record may reflect gaps in collection rather than gaps in layoffs. Workers in New Mexico who want to check for notices should not rely on this registry alone — the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions is the official source.

The bottom line

New Mexico's WARN record in November 2026 is thin: 116 notices and 14,853 workers across the full archive, two notices and 62 workers in 2026, and nothing scheduled for the weeks ahead. The 2020 pandemic spike still dominates the state's history, and the single largest filing — 641 workers at a Rio Rancho hospital — remains the benchmark.

The honest reading is that New Mexico is a low-volume state with a thin paper trail. The numbers say layoff notices are rare in the registry; they cannot say whether layoffs themselves are rare, because the state's official filings do not flow into the registry at all. Until that changes, New Mexico's WARN story is as much about what is missing as what is counted.

Data source: Layoff Atlas