Formagrid Files 190-Worker WARN Layoff Notice for San Francisco

Formagrid Inc., doing business as Airtable, has filed a WARN notice covering 190 workers in San Francisco, California. The notice was dated October 15, 2026, and lists a planned effective date of January 15, 2027. The filing is recorded as a permanent layoff, and it comes from California's official WARN source, the state Employment Development Department (EDD).
The reported location is One Front Street, 28th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111. As with all WARN records, these figures are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. The notice describes the employer's planned action; it does not by itself confirm how many workers will ultimately be affected, or whether dates will change before the effective date.

The filing in detail

• Employer: Formagrid Inc. dba Airtable
• Workers affected: 190
• Location: San Francisco, California (One Front St, 28th Floor, 94111)
• Notice date: October 15, 2026
• Planned effective date: January 15, 2027
• Event type: Layoff, recorded as permanent
• Source: California Employment Development Department, via Layoff Atlas The gap between the notice date and the effective date is 92 days, which is longer than the 60 days of advance notice the federal WARN Act generally requires for a covered layoff. That comparison is arithmetic, not a legal finding: whether a particular filing satisfies the law depends on the full notice and the circumstances, which the registry record alone does not settle. ## Not Formagrid's first California filing The registry holds two earlier Formagrid filings in San Francisco, both layoffs at an 8th Floor San Francisco location. One covered 99 workers, with a notice date of September 14, 2023 and an effective date of September 15, 2023. The other covered 111 workers, noticed December 8, 2022 and effective December 15, 2022. Together with the new 190-worker filing, the three San Francisco records total 400 reported workers across three separate notices. Each notice stands on its own dates and counts, and the registry does not combine them into a single event. ## California in the national picture California remains one of the two largest states in the national WARN data. In the 90-day notice window tracked by Layoff Atlas, California accounts for 18,309 reported workers, just ahead of Washington at 17,050. Together the two states account for 35,359 reported workers, more than half of the national 90-day total of 67,083 workers across 694 notices. Illinois (4,626), Texas (3,652), and Georgia (2,492) follow. Thirty counts in the national window are unavailable and are excluded from the worker totals. California's full imported archive is far larger than the 90-day window: 17,621 non-cancelled notices reporting 1,455,786 workers, with 180 notices carrying future effective dates. In 2026 alone, the archive holds 1,193 California notices covering 63,959 reported workers. Those archive totals describe notices, not unique people or completed layoffs, and they combine official records with a small number of attributed secondary records. ## What comes next for the January 15 date The Formagrid filing joins a growing set of layoffs scheduled for early 2027. The national registry already shows effective dates stretching into 2027, and the January 15, 2027 date sits just past the heavy late-2026 weeks. The upcoming weeks in the current national window run from 8,693 workers effective in the week of October 29 down to 1,670 in the week of December 3, with the week of November 19 the heaviest fully upcoming week at 8,412 workers. Filings like Formagrid's show that the calendar beyond those weeks is already filling in. Workers named in a WARN notice are generally entitled to the notice itself, not to severance, which the federal law does not require. What follows a filing usually includes unemployment benefits for eligible workers, information about health coverage continuation, and state Rapid Response services that help with retraining and job search. Anyone affected should check the details of their own notice, including the exact effective date and any updates, rather than relying on a summary. ## How to read this filing WARN data rewards careful reading. The notice date is when the employer filed, the effective date is when the layoffs are planned to take effect, and the worker count is the number the employer reported. Counts can change if a filing is amended, postponed, or cancelled, and a single employer can appear under slightly different names or at different sites. That is why Layoff Atlas keeps each filing as its own record, with its own dates, and why this article reports the Formagrid filing exactly as filed: 190 workers, San Francisco, noticed October 15, 2026, effective January 15, 2027. Data source: Layoff Atlas