New Mexico Layoffs 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

New Mexico's WARN layoff record is one of the quieter ones in the United States. As of October 16, 2026, the Layoff Atlas archive holds 116 non-cancelled imported notices for the state, reporting 14,853 affected workers in total. In 2026 specifically, only two filings have surfaced so far, covering 62 workers.

Before going further, an important caveat about this state's data: all 116 New Mexico records in the archive are attributed secondary records. Zero direct government filings have been imported for New Mexico, and the archive contains no eligible official filings from the last 365 days. That means the numbers below come from a licensed secondary WARN feed, not from the state's own labor-agency postings. They are still real reported filings, but coverage for New Mexico is thinner and less direct than for states with official data connected.

These figures also describe reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice is an advance filing an employer makes when it plans a qualifying mass layoff or plant closure; plans change, numbers get revised, and some announced layoffs never happen. Worker totals also exclude four New Mexico notices whose worker counts were unavailable.

2026 so far: two small filings

The only two New Mexico notices dated to 2026 are both small and both in Albuquerque:

• Atkore HDPE, Albuquerque (Bernalillo County): 51 workers, effective June 30, 2026, with a notice filed April 27, 2026.
• Conduent, Albuquerque (Bernalillo County): 11 workers, notice filed June 29, 2026, with no effective date recorded.

No New Mexico notice in the archive has a future effective date, so as of the October 16 source check, nothing new is scheduled on the calendar.

The bigger picture: what past years show

New Mexico's filing history is modest but not empty. The busiest year in the archive is 2020, with 27 notices covering 3,508 workers — the pandemic-year spike visible across most states. 2016 follows with 17 notices and 2,267 workers, and 2023 brought 16 notices covering 1,689 workers.

Recent years, by notice date:

• 2025: 4 notices, 655 workers. The filings were Intel (227 workers, Rio Rancho), The GEO Group (203, Hobbs), ECS (140, Albuquerque), and CyraCom International (85, Las Cruces).
• 2024: 6 notices, 672 workers, led by U.S. Cotton (175, Rio Rancho) and Jabil (130, Albuquerque), with Hallcon (118, Clovis), BIMBO Bakeries (123, Albuquerque), Galactic Co. (73, Las Cruces), and the St. James Hotel and UU Bar Ranch (58, Cimarron) making up the rest.
• 2023: 16 notices, 1,689 workers. The largest was the UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center filing in Rio Rancho — 641 workers, effective January 1, 2024 — the single biggest New Mexico filing in the entire archive. Tattooed Chef (272, Albuquerque), Yellow (118, Albuquerque), and Kevothermal (118, Albuquerque) were the other standouts that year.

Where the layoffs land

Geography tells a clear story. The overwhelming majority of New Mexico's WARN filings cluster in the Albuquerque metro area — Bernalillo and Sandoval counties — with Rio Rancho contributing some of the largest: the UNM hospital filing, Intel, and U.S. Cotton. Las Cruces appears a handful of times (CyraCom, Galactic, Bitwise Industries), and the rest is scattered: a hotel in Cimarron, a bank-adjacent filing in Santa Fe, a manufacturing site in Santa Teresa.

By industry, the mix is manufacturing and food processing (Atkore HDPE, Tattooed Chef, Jabil, BIMBO, U.S. Cotton), technology and services (Intel, Conduent, ECS, CyraCom), healthcare (the UNM medical center filing), and logistics and hospitality. No single industry dominates the state's record.

How to read these numbers

Three things to keep in mind:

1. Secondary sourcing. Because no direct state filings are imported, New Mexico's numbers reflect what the secondary feed captured. The real count of WARN-qualifying layoffs in the state is almost certainly higher than 116 notices over the archive's full span. Missing coverage is not zero layoffs.
2. Notice dates vs. effective dates. The year-by-year breakdown uses published notice dates — the date the filing was made public. Effective dates (when the layoffs actually take effect) can fall months later, and four notices lack worker counts entirely, so totals undercount by definition.
3. Plans, not outcomes. Every figure here is a reported plan. Some filings are later cancelled or scaled down; the archive excludes cancelled records, but it cannot track whether every announced layoff was carried out.

For a state of New Mexico's size, the archive paints a picture of a labor market that has seen real but scattered layoff activity — a 2020 spike, a notable hospital filing in early 2024, and a very quiet 2026 so far. If official New Mexico WARN postings get connected to the archive, these numbers will get sharper. Until then, treat them as a useful floor, not a ceiling.

Data source: Layoff Atlas