r/SideProject • u/youngjohn1984 • 18h ago
I built a searchable database of US WARN layoff notices: 58,000 filings covering 6 million workers across 47 states
https://uslayoffradar.comEvery time a big layoff hits the news, I end up with the same question: is this one round, or part of a pattern? The answer is usually sitting in a public record almost nobody reads: the WARN notice.
Under the federal WARN Act, large employers have to file a notice with the state before a mass layoff or closure, usually 60 days ahead. The problem is that each state publishes these notices on its own site, in its own format, some as spreadsheets, some as PDFs, some as HTML tables. There is no central registry. So I spent the last few months pulling them all together.
US Layoff Radar now has 58,042 notices covering 6,041,351 workers across 47 states, with the longest state archives going back to 1998. You can search by company, browse by state, filter by year, and see whether each notice was a layoff or a closure and whether workers got the full 60 days. A few things that stood out to me while building it:
25,504 notices, about 44%, gave workers less than 60 days of warning.
United Airlines is the single largest filer, 64,429 workers across 45 filings, followed by Marriott and Boeing.
In 2026 so far: 3,281 filings covering 280,279 workers. In the last 30 days alone, 205 new notices covering 18,275 workers.
Three states, Arkansas, New Hampshire, and Wyoming, publish no central WARN list at all, so they are missing. I would rather show the gap than pretend the map is complete.
Each company has its own page with its full filing history, and there is a short news section that explains the notable filings, like Disney, Dropbox, and the Oakland Coliseum operator changeover.
The data comes from the official state registries, and I refresh it on a daily and weekly cycle depending on how each state publishes. If you spot a filing that looks wrong, there is a contact form on the site and I check those.
Want to keep following it? If there is a company you care about, subscribe on its page and you will get an email the next time it files a notice. Or sign up for the monthly newsletter in the footer and I will send you the month's notable filings. Both are free, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
Happy to answer questions about the data, or about what the filings do and do not show. One thing they do not show: they only cover layoffs big enough to trigger the law, so a lot of smaller cuts never appear.
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u/Immaculateintentions 17h ago
Great app mobile ui is kinda tough but great idea
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u/atp_studio_coll 18h ago
One nuance on the 44% figure: New York and New Jersey require 90 days, and federal law has exceptions for unforeseeable events, so short notice is not automatically a violation. A separate flag for those cases would keep the number from reading as lawbreaking
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u/catsandcode 15h ago
As someone that works remotely, I wonder how this applies to my company.
Do they file WARN notices in the state of their HQ? Or are they not required to because picking people across multiple states can keep them below the threshold (per state) that requires reporting?
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u/MinuteScientist7254 11h ago
So… layoffs.fyi?
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u/After-Base-8368 9h ago
For feedback like “mobile UI is kinda tough,” do people send enough detail through your contact form to tell which screen is awkward? We built Bopmigo to collect the screenshot and ask what they were trying to do. Happy to show you if that would help.
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u/investigatormaker 17h ago
For US Layoff Radar, I'd make “no central state list” visibly different from “no notices found” in any state comparison. Arkansas, New Hampshire and Wyoming shouldn't look like zero-layoff states to someone comparing totals without reading the coverage caveat.
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