Florida Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

Florida has recorded 309 WARN notices affecting 19,373 reported workers so far in 2026, according to the Layoff Atlas registry. That puts the state on a quieter track than last year, when 368 notices covered 27,863 workers — but the year is not over, and 14 Florida notices still have future effective dates, including a cluster of 243 workers scheduled for December 31.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. WARN filings describe what employers told the state they intend to do. Some layoffs shrink, some get postponed, and some never happen.

Florida in the national picture

Nationally, the 90-day WARN window holds 694 notices affecting 64,044 reported workers, with 30 counts unavailable. California leads the country by a wide margin at 21,514 workers, followed by Washington at 17,411. Illinois (3,432), Texas (2,750) and Maryland (2,475) round out the top five; Florida does not appear in it.

The coming weeks are busy nationwide: 6,473 workers are scheduled effective the week of November 9, followed by 6,202 the week of November 16 and 6,207 the week of November 23. The week of December 7 is unusually light at 898 workers, before the calendar picks back up with 6,274 the week of December 14.

Florida's full archive is large — 3,321 non-cancelled notices reporting 342,573 workers — but more than half of those workers come from a single year. In 2020, Florida recorded 1,336 notices affecting 181,571 workers, about 53 percent of the entire archive's worker total.

The 2026 picture so far

Florida's 2026 filings average about 63 workers each (19,373 workers across 309 notices) — large enough that individual filings matter, small enough that no single employer dominates the year.

Year by year, the recent trend looks like this:

• 2026: 309 notices, 19,373 workers (through early November)
• 2025: 368 notices, 27,863 workers
• 2024: 274 notices, 12,719 workers
• 2023: 218 notices, 10,382 workers
• 2022: 102 notices, 9,284 workers
• 2021: 106 notices, 12,370 workers
• 2020: 1,336 notices, 181,571 workers

The 2026 worker total is already well above 2024 and 2023, but still about 8,500 short of 2025 with roughly seven weeks left in the year.

The largest 2026 filings

The biggest Florida filings of 2026 so far cluster in health care, defense contracting, and logistics:

• Health First Inc. and Health First Shared Services, Rockledge — 215 workers, effective September 16, 2026. The largest single Florida filing of the year.
• Astrion, Eglin Air Force Base — 204 workers, effective September 30, 2026. A defense-contractor filing; a smaller 16-worker Astrion filing at Patrick Air Force Base shares the same effective date.
• Postal Center International, Weston — 181 workers, effective August 13, 2026.
• Saddle Creek, Plant City — 178 workers, effective October 15, 2026.
• MV Transportation, Naples — 151 workers, effective September 30, 2026.
• Aetos Systems, Merritt Island — 126 workers, effective December 1, 2026. The largest Florida filing still ahead of its effective date.
• GEICO, Lakeland — 114 workers, effective December 31, 2026, with notice filed November 2, 2026 — the newest official notice in the Florida registry.

Two earlier filings also shaped the year: Builders FirstSource filed an 82-worker Jacksonville closure notice in October, and Behlen Building Systems filed a 55-worker Sarasota notice the same month. Both were covered in detail when they were filed.

What is still on the calendar

Fourteen Florida notices have future effective dates. The most concentrated day is December 31, 2026, when three filings take effect together: GEICO's 114 workers in Lakeland, AmeriHealth Caritas's 61 workers in Orlando, and Endeavors' 68 workers across multiple Florida locations — 243 workers on a single day.

Other dates to watch: Aetos Systems' 126 workers in Merritt Island on December 1, Builders FirstSource's 82 in Jacksonville on December 12, Behlen's 55 in Sarasota on December 18, and two small filings carrying into 2027 — Cayuga Home for Children, 13 workers on January 4, and Dillard's in Boynton Beach, 22 workers on January 8.

A coverage caveat worth knowing

Florida's numbers come with a bigger asterisk than most states. Only 205 of the 3,321 records in the Florida archive are direct government records; 3,116 are attributed secondary records. In the last 365 days, the registry holds just 111 eligible official filings reporting 5,411 workers, with the newest official notice dated November 2, 2026.

That means Florida's WARN picture depends heavily on secondary reporting rather than the state's own feed. A thin official feed does not mean layoffs are not happening — it means the registry is seeing them through attributed reports, which can lag and can miss filings entirely. Missing source coverage is not zero layoffs.

The practical takeaway: Florida's 2026 total of 19,373 workers is a floor built from what the registry can see, not a ceiling.

How to read Florida's numbers

Three things to keep in mind. First, the 2020 spike still distorts every long-run comparison — more than half of all workers in Florida's archive were reported in that one year. Second, 2026 is tracking below 2025 but above the 2023–2024 range, which makes it an ordinary heavy year rather than an exceptional one. Third, the December 31 cluster is the near-term event to watch: 243 workers across three employers on one day, in a month that otherwise looks quiet.

Data source: Layoff Atlas