This week, 7,578 workers across the United States have layoffs scheduled to take effect, according to the latest WARN data tracked by Layoff Atlas. It is the second-heaviest week on the current six-week calendar — behind only the week of November 19, when 8,412 workers are scheduled — and it accounts for nearly a quarter of all layoffs scheduled over the next six weeks.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. Every figure here comes from WARN notices filed with state labor agencies, which record what employers say they plan to do. Plans can change and dates can move, but the numbers show the shape of the calendar: when the cuts are scheduled to land, and how heavy each week looks.

The six weeks ahead

The calendar, as it stands on November 12, 2026:

  • Week of November 12: 7,578 workers
  • Week of November 19: 8,412 workers — the heaviest week on the calendar
  • Week of November 26: 6,032 workers
  • Week of December 3: 1,919 workers — the lightest week on the calendar
  • Week of December 10: 1,959 workers
  • Week of December 17: 5,347 workers — the newest week on the calendar

The six weeks total 31,247 scheduled workers. The three November weeks alone — November 12, 19, and 26 — account for 22,022 of them, or about 70 percent of the total. November is doing the heavy lifting; December opens quietly, with the weeks of December 3 and 10 combining for just 3,878 workers, less than half of this week alone. Then the week of December 17, the newest on the calendar, already carries 5,347 workers.

A number that has held steady

This week's figure has barely moved in two weeks. On October 29 it stood at 7,472 workers; today it is 7,578, up by just 106 — and it has been exactly 7,578 for the past seven days, the same figure the November 5 reading showed for this week and for the weeks of November 19, November 26, December 3, and December 10 alike.

In a registry where totals shift daily as the 90-day window rolls forward, a week that holds its figure for a week is a settled week: the filings are in, the dates are set, and few late additions have arrived.

The national picture

The current 90-day window holds 654 WARN notices covering 60,606 reported workers, with 30 notices carrying no worker count at all. That total is down about 4,000 workers from a week ago — 676 notices and 64,762 workers on November 5 — as older notices roll out of the 90-day window faster than new ones arrive. A falling headline number does not mean fewer layoffs are happening; it means the oldest filings have aged out of view.

Two states dominate the picture. California leads with 20,789 reported workers, followed by Washington with 17,387. Together they account for 38,176 workers — about 63 percent of the national total. The next three states are far behind: Maryland with 2,667, Virginia with 2,556, and Texas with 2,419.

Coverage is uneven. The registry covers 51 jurisdictions, 48 with imported records; some states publish every filing promptly, others rarely or not at all. And the 30 notices with no worker count are excluded from the 60,606 total, so the true number of affected workers is higher than the headline figure.

What "scheduled" means

A WARN notice has two dates that matter. The notice date is when the employer filed. The effective date is when the layoff takes effect. The federal WARN Act generally requires 60 days between the two, so most of the filings behind this week's effective dates were made in September. Workers in this week's group have, in most cases, known about the layoff for about two months.

That notice period is the whole point of the law. Sixty days is time to file for unemployment, contact the state's Rapid Response team for free re-employment help, sort out health coverage, and look for the next job while still employed.

What to watch next

Three things to watch as this week plays out:

First, the week of November 19. At 8,412 workers, it is the heaviest week on the calendar, and it arrives just seven days after this one. Two heavy weeks back to back — 15,990 workers across November 12 and 19 — is the densest stretch of the fall.

Second, Thanksgiving week. The week of November 26 carries 6,032 workers, with Thanksgiving itself falling on Thursday, November 26. Layoffs scheduled for a holiday week land differently for the workers affected, and the week's total has held steady as well.

Third, the December quiet. The weeks of December 3 and December 10 are the lightest on the calendar at 1,919 and 1,959 workers — the calmest stretch in over a month, if the figures hold — before the week of December 17, already at 5,347, brings the numbers back up.

The calendar will keep moving. New notices arrive daily, and each one either fills in a future week or adds to a week already counted. For now, this week is set: 7,578 workers, the second-heaviest week of the fall, and a number that has not budged in seven days.

Data source: Layoff Atlas.