Georgia has recorded 69 WARN notices covering 10,445 reported workers so far in 2026, according to Layoff Atlas. That is a quieter pace than 2025, when 92 notices reported 15,707 workers — but the average filing this year is larger, and the biggest single notice, Wellstar Health System's 761-worker layoff, is one of the largest Georgia filings in recent years.
These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. WARN notices are advance warnings employers file before qualifying mass layoffs and plant closures, and the figures below describe what was reported, not how many jobs were ultimately cut.
The 2026 picture so far
Georgia's full imported archive holds 285 non-cancelled notices reporting 42,284 workers. Volume peaked in 2025 and has eased since:
- 2026: 69 notices, 10,445 reported workers
- 2025: 92 notices, 15,707 reported workers
- 2024: 68 notices, 8,034 reported workers
- 2023: 56 notices, 8,098 reported workers
The average 2026 filing covers about 151 workers, up from about 118 in 2024 and close to 2025's average of about 171. Georgia is seeing fewer notices than last year, but the ones that arrive tend to be substantial. With roughly seven weeks left in the year, 2026 is unlikely to match 2025's total, though a single large filing can still move the numbers quickly.
The biggest filings of 2026
Healthcare leads the year's list. Wellstar Health System reported 761 workers in Cobb County, effective September 26, 2026 — the largest Georgia filing of the year by a wide margin. Behind it, Spirit Airlines reported 653 workers in Clayton County for a closure effective May 2, 2026. The rest of the year's larger filings cluster in the fall:
- Republic National Distributing, 321 workers, Cobb County, closure effective October 19, 2026
- Essendant, 192 workers, Suwanee, closure effective October 3, 2026
- FPL Food, 179 workers, Richmond County, layoff effective October 31, 2026
- Anchor Glass Container, 168 workers, Houston County, closure effective October 17, 2026
- Meyn Americas, 150 workers, Cherokee County, closure effective October 1, 2026
- TEKsystems Global Services, 126 workers, Fayetteville, layoff effective July 15, 2026
- 80 Acres Urban Agriculture, 110 workers, Clayton County, layoff effective August 3, 2026
- Asama Coldwater Manufacturing Georgia, 102 and 107 workers in two Warren County filings, effective October 14 and September 18, 2026
- Elite Comfort Solutions, 102 workers, Coweta County, closure effective August 14, 2026
Two patterns stand out. First, closures dominate the list: most of the larger 2026 filings are plant or facility closures rather than partial layoffs, which usually means the affected workers have no job to return to at that site. Second, Cobb County appears repeatedly — Wellstar, Republic National Distributing, and the Caraustar filing below are all Cobb-based, making it the county to watch in Georgia's 2026 data.
The official-filing gap
Georgia's numbers come with an important qualification. In the last 365 days, the imported archive contains zero eligible official filings for Georgia, and the newest official notice date is February 17, 2025. Of the 285 notices in the archive, only one is a direct government record; the other 284 are attributed secondary records.
That does not make the numbers wrong, but it does make them thinner than in states with a live official feed. Secondary records are reports attributed to a source rather than filings pulled directly from a state agency, so dates and counts can be revised, and filings that never reach a secondary source may be missing entirely. Georgia's figures should be read as a lower bound on reported activity, not a census of layoffs.
What is still on the calendar
Only one Georgia filing has a future effective date: Caraustar Mill Group, 95 workers in Cobb County, a closure effective November 16, 2026, noticed on September 14. That is a long notice period — about nine weeks — which is typical of the 60-day WARN standard.
Nationally, the week of November 16 carries 6,202 reported workers, part of a heavy stretch that also includes the weeks of November 9 (6,473 workers), November 23 (6,207), and November 30 (5,916).
Georgia in the national picture
Across the United States, Layoff Atlas currently shows 694 notices covering 64,044 reported workers in the 90-day window, with 30 worker counts unavailable. California leads by a wide margin at 21,514 reported workers, followed by Washington at 17,411, Illinois at 3,432, Texas at 2,750, and Maryland at 2,475.
Georgia's 10,445 workers in 2026 do not place it in the current top five, but the trend is the more useful comparison: the state's 2026 worker total is already well above 2024's full-year figure of 8,034, even though the notice count is nearly identical. Fewer, bigger filings is the story of Georgia's year.
How to read Georgia's numbers
Three things to keep in mind. First, these are reported plans, not confirmed job losses — some announced layoffs shrink, some are withdrawn, and some workers are recalled. Second, Georgia's reliance on secondary records means the count is almost certainly incomplete; the absence of an official feed is a gap in coverage, not evidence that filings stopped. Third, the closure-heavy mix in 2026 means the year's numbers may translate into lasting job losses more directly than in a year dominated by temporary layoffs.
Data source: Layoff Atlas. State page figures fetched November 9, 2026; source check November 8, 2026.
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