Delaware Layoffs 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

Delaware is one of the states where the WARN layoff picture comes with an important asterisk. Layoff Atlas's imported archive for Delaware holds 100 non-cancelled WARN notices reporting 15,355 affected workers — but every one of those records is an attributed secondary report, not a direct government filing. There are zero official direct filings for Delaware in the archive, and zero in the last 365 days.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. That caveat matters everywhere in WARN data, but doubly so for Delaware, where the coverage comes entirely from secondary archives.

The 2026 filings so far

Three Delaware notices have been imported for 2026, covering 174 reported workers:

• JeniusBank — 106 workers, notice dated Aug. 10, 2026 (attributed to a New York location in the secondary record)
• Atlas Hospitality Group — 67 workers, notice dated Apr. 30, 2026 (Baltimore location in the secondary record)
• Conduent — 1 worker, notice dated Jun. 29, 2026 (Florham Park, New Jersey location in the secondary record)

Readers will notice that several of the notices tagged to Delaware's record carry locations outside the state — New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida. That is how secondary-source attribution works: the records are grouped under the state record, but the location fields come from the original filing and don't always match. Treat the state-level totals as approximate.

No layoffs on the horizon — at least in the data

The archive lists zero notices with future effective dates for Delaware. The most recent 2026 notice dates from August, and the state's notices are not showing the kind of upcoming wave visible in bigger states. Of course, with no official direct source connected, an absence of records is not the same as an absence of layoffs — coverage for Delaware is limited to what secondary archives have picked up.

A history dominated by two shocks

Delaware's notice history by year shows the familiar two-peaked shape of the last two decades:

• 2020 — 24 notices, 3,738 reported workers (the pandemic shock: Aramark at University of Delaware's 554-worker filing and Dentsply Sirona's 313-worker filing both date to the spring of 2020)
• 2009 — 25 notices, 2,516 reported workers (the Great Recession)
• 2015 — 5 notices, 2,189 workers
• 2023 — 2 notices, 613 workers, including the archive's single largest Delaware filing: Centurion of Delaware's 572-worker notice (Dover, May 2023)

Years like 2014, 2022, and 2025 show one or two notices each — not because nothing happened in Delaware's labor market, but because secondary coverage is thin for smaller states.

Why Delaware's data looks different

The key thing to understand about Delaware is the source status: 0 non-cancelled direct government records, 100 attributed secondary records. By comparison, states like Washington and California have thousands of direct official records in the archive. Delaware is not alone — several smaller jurisdictions show the same pattern — but it is a reminder that WARN data is not a census of layoffs. Missing source coverage is not zero layoffs.

Eleven of Delaware's 100 notices have unavailable worker counts, and they are excluded from the 15,355 worker total. Worker totals exclude unavailable counts everywhere on the site.

What to watch

With no future effective dates in the archive, the watch item for Delaware is coverage itself: any official-source connection would sharpen the picture considerably. For now, the 2026 record stands at three small notices and 174 reported workers — a quiet year, viewed through a narrow lens.

Data source: Layoff Atlas