List Of Companies Laying Off Employees This Month

It may not be a particularly pleasant news but the list of companies laying off employees this month is, to say the least, worrisome

The action will result in the loss of hundreds of jobs, reports say. Here is one such report which provides useful insight to help employees.:

Hundreds of employees across the United States are facing layoffs in October, with some big names in American business looking to trim their workforces.

Why It Matters

Layoffs can occur for many reasons; while they can be viewed as a signal about how companies view economic headwinds, the reasons may also be more localized to individual companies amid restructuring or plans to maximize profits. An August report from outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas found that hundreds of thousands of layoffs have occurred so far in 2025—many of which were part of President Donald Trump’s changes to the federal workforce.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers to give 60 days’ notice ahead of mass layoffs.

According to the group Legal Aid at Work, a mass layoff occurs under the WARN Act when at least 50 employees are laid off during a 30-day period and affects one-third of the workplace if 500 employees are laid off during a 30-day period regardless of the company’s size or an entire work site is closed down and at least 50 employees are laid off during a 30-day period.

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Laying Off Employees: What To Know

Among the companies facing layoffs is Microsoft, which is set to lay off 40 workers in Redmond, Washington, and FedEx, which is laying off workers at a Memphis, Tennessee, facility.

These are tracked online via WARNTracker.com, which indicates that many businesses across the country have filed WARN notices.

There are many different economic forces that can lead to layoffs, including a decrease in demand for a product or service, Justin Ren, department chair of operations and technology management at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, told Newsweek.

“But what is less obvious—and perhaps more relevant today—is that companies may lay off people while doing well with steady or even increasing demand.  This is because companies can become more efficient in their internal operations, either from technology upgrades such as automation and process innovation, or from better organization of their workflows and their supply chains,” he said.

Moving forward, high-tech industries may see more layoffs due to increased productivity, he said.

While the redundancies are at times necessary, some businesses may be short-sighted in laying workers off hen facing short-term shocks, he said. When considering layoffs, businesses should consider whether a changing environment is temporary or not, as well as how they can let current employees create more future value rather than dismissing them, according to Ren.

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Kirabo Jackson, faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, told Newsweek that companies may be laying off workers due to an uncertainty in the markets fueled by Trump’s tariffs.

“In a world where there’s a general uncertainty, it’s not an environment where people want to put down large sums of money and make investments in new people,” he said.

Companies generally do not like to make layoffs, he said. Eventually, many end up hiring new workers to replace those who have been made redundant and will have to train them, so it’s generally better for businesses to only downsize when changes are going to last for a long period of time, he said.

Here Is a List of companies with WARN notices laying off employees:

1. AccelerEd
2. Adventist Health
3. Air Wisconsin Airlines
4. Amentum
5. Anaheim Arena Management
6. Azoteas Mex LA
7. Battelle
8. Berco Redwood, Inc.
9. Block
10. Burlington Trailways
11. Car Toys, Inc.
12. Catalent
13. CDM Field Services
14. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
15. Cisco
16. CNN/Warner Bros
17. CooperVision Inc.
18. Cornucopia Logistics, LLC
19. Dandelion Payments, Inc.
20. Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services
21. Downtown Streets, Inc.
22. Enloe Health
23. F5, Inc.
24. Farmers Insurance Group
25. FedEx
26. Fred Meyer
27. Gilead Sciences
28. GXO Logistics
29. Horizon Lobby
30. Hudson News Distributors
31. Jack in the Box
32. B. Hunt Transport, Inc.
33. Jabil
34. Marathon Staff Solutions
35. Marriott International
36. Maverick, Inc.
37. Microsoft
38. National Distribution Centers
39. Navient Solutions
40. Oracle America
41. Owens Corning
42. Paradies
43. Pasa Services
44. Pactiv Corporation
45. PL Developments
46. Providence Health & Services
47. Silgan Containers
48. Smurfit Westrock
49. Solarcycle Inc.
50. Southwest Key Programs Inc.
51. T-Mobile
52. TriLink Biotechnologie
53. University of Southern California
54. Upstate Niagara Cooperative
55. Vistar Green Rabbit
56. Warner Music Group
57. Web to Door Corporation
58. Wells Fargo
59. Winnebago Industries
60. Zeco Systems, Inc.
61. Zumtobel Lighting

-Picture and story adapted from Newsweek