Ohio's WARN record for 2026 stands at 72 notices reporting 9,282 workers, according to Layoff Atlas data checked November 8, 2026. The year is running quieter than 2025, but a single large filing — International Motors' 1,341-worker layoff in Springfield — accounts for about one in seven of the workers reported in Ohio all year.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice is an employer's advance filing about a planned mass layoff or plant closure; the numbers describe what employers told the state they intend to do, and plans can change.

Ohio in the national picture

Nationally, the registry holds 705 notices reporting 65,089 workers in the current 90-day window, with 31 notices carrying no worker count. California leads the states with 21,514 reported workers, followed by Washington at 17,411, Illinois at 3,548, Texas at 2,750, and Virginia at 2,546. Ohio's full archive is large: 1,075 non-cancelled notices reporting 141,183 workers, with 7 notices carrying future effective dates.

The weeks ahead are uneven. The week of November 15 is the heaviest on the calendar at 7,887 workers, followed by November 22 at 6,614 and November 29 at 6,156. The week of November 8 holds 4,267 workers, December 13 holds 5,307, and December 6 is the lightest week at 857. The six-week total is 31,088 workers.

The year so far

Ohio's 2026 filings average about 129 workers per notice. Year by year:

  • 2026: 72 notices, 9,282 workers
  • 2025: 87 notices, 10,785 workers
  • 2024: 93 notices, 11,378 workers
  • 2023: 85 notices, 8,591 workers
  • 2022: 59 notices, 7,752 workers
  • 2021: 29 notices, 2,281 workers
  • 2020: 376 notices, 55,223 workers

The 2020 pandemic spike remains the outlier: more notices in that single year than in 2021 through 2024 combined.

The largest 2026 filings

The biggest filings:

  • International Motors, Springfield (Clark County) — 1,341 workers, layoff effective October 2, 2026, notice filed July 28. The largest single Ohio filing of the year by a wide margin.
  • SDH Services West, Cincinnati — 488 workers, closure effective October 1, 2026, notice filed August 4.
  • Daniel Drake Center for Post-Acute Care, Cincinnati — 474 workers, closure effective December 4, 2026, notice filed July 30. One of the few large Ohio filings still ahead on the calendar.
  • Schwebel Baking Company, Youngstown and Hebron — 370 workers in Youngstown and 110 in Hebron, both closures effective July 6, 2026, noticed June 17. Together the two bakeries account for 480 workers.
  • Senior Resource Connection, Dayton — 190 workers, closure effective June 30, 2026.
  • Down-Lite International, Mason — 164 workers, closure effective September 25, 2026.
  • 80 Acres Urban Agriculture, Hamilton — 145 workers, closure effective August 3, 2026.
  • PJ Trailer, Mount Orab — 116 workers, closure effective November 8, 2026.
  • Cornerstone Building Brands, Walbridge — 104 workers, closure effective December 1, 2026.
  • A.O. Smith, Groveport — 92 workers, closure effective August 24, 2026.

Two smaller closures are still to come: Marc Glassman's 55-worker closure in Parma, effective November 10, and Perstorp Polyols' 50-worker closure in Toledo, effective November 2. Nearly every large 2026 filing is a closure, not a layoff — the site itself is going, with fewer chances of transfer or recall.

The official-filing gap

Ohio's data comes with a caveat worth stating plainly. In the last 365 days, the archive contains only 6 eligible official filings for Ohio, reporting 630 workers, and the newest official notice date is June 17, 2026 — the Schwebel Baking filings. The direct government feed has been quiet since June.

Almost everything since then arrives as attributed secondary records: 6 direct government records against 1,069 secondary records in the full archive. The recent rows — International Motors, SDH Services West, Daniel Drake — are secondary WARN Feed records attributed to the state. The state's own feed is not the source for most of what Ohio workers are reading about right now. Nineteen notices in the archive carry no worker count at all, so the 141,183-worker archive total is a floor, not a complete count.

How to read Ohio's numbers

Three things to keep in mind when the next Ohio filing makes the news.

First, compare the notice date with the effective date. The federal WARN Act generally requires 60 days' notice for a qualifying mass layoff or closure, and most Ohio filings meet or exceed that: International Motors gave about 66 days, SDH Services West about 58. A filing that appears today usually describes job cuts weeks away, not jobs already gone.

Second, watch the event type. Closures dominate Ohio's 2026 list, and a closure filing is a different signal from a layoff at a plant that stays open. Workers at a closing site should expect the full separation process rather than a recall.

Third, remember the coverage gap. With the official feed quiet since June, a week with no new Ohio filings may mean no filings — or that the secondary records have not caught up yet.

Ohio's 2026 story is a mid-sized year with one very large filing. International Motors alone is about 14 percent of the year's reported workers, and the next three filings add another 1,442. Strip out the top four and the remaining 68 notices report roughly 6,500 workers — a steadier, smaller-scale picture.

Data source: Layoff Atlas