Seattle Marriott Redmond Files 91-Worker WARN Notice for Closure, Effective January 5, 2027

Seattle Marriott Redmond has filed a WARN notice reporting 91 workers affected by a closure in Redmond, Washington, effective January 5, 2027. The notice was filed on November 4, 2026, making it the newest official filing in Washington's WARN record — and the largest recent Washington filing not yet covered in this series.

The filing is an official record from the Washington Employment Security Department, the state agency that publishes Washington's WARN notices. It lists the event type as a closure and the source classification as permanent — a shutdown of the worksite, not a temporary layoff with a return date.

The filing in detail

The facts in the notice are straightforward. The employer is listed as Seattle Marriott Redmond, the reported location is Redmond, Washington, and the number of workers affected is 91. The notice date is November 4, 2026, and the planned effective date is January 5, 2027.

The gap between those two dates is 62 days. That matters because the federal WARN Act generally requires employers to give at least 60 days' advance notice of a qualifying plant closure or mass layoff. A 62-day notice period clears that floor by two days — a narrow margin, but a margin.

A few fields in the public record are blank. No street address, county, or ZIP code is published for this filing, and the record does not state a reason for the closure. That is normal for WARN records: the registry publishes what the filing supplies. Workers who need the full document should check the original filing with the Washington Employment Security Department, which may carry phased dates, updates, or exceptions not reflected in the registry summary.

Washington's place in the national picture

Washington remains the second-largest source of reported layoff plans in the current national data. In the 90-day window tracked by Layoff Atlas, the registry holds 678 notices covering 64,883 reported workers, with 26 notices carrying no worker count. Washington accounts for 17,411 of those workers — second only to California at 20,969. Illinois (3,649), Texas (2,863), and Virginia (2,373) round out the top five.

Washington's longer record is large: 1,531 non-cancelled imported WARN notices reporting 250,220 workers affected. In 2026 alone, the archive records 136 notices covering 28,822 workers. Over the last 365 days, Washington has 153 eligible official filings reporting 29,826 workers, and 47 notices have future effective dates.

Washington's sourcing stands out: all 1,530 non-cancelled records in the archive are direct government records, with zero attributed secondary records.

A busy week for Washington filings

The Marriott filing is not the only recent Washington notice. Amazon filed a 95-worker notice on November 2, 2026, covering workers in Sumner, Pasco, Bellevue, Redmond, Seattle, and remote roles, effective December 7, 2026. That filing is slightly larger than the Marriott notice, but it was filed two days earlier and has already been covered. The Marriott notice, dated November 4, is the freshest official filing on the national registry.

The timing also fits a pattern in the calendar. The week of November 19 is currently the heaviest upcoming layoff week nationally, with 8,412 workers scheduled. The weeks around it are heavy too: 7,578 workers are scheduled for the week of November 12, and 6,032 for the week of November 26. The Marriott closure, effective January 5, 2027, falls outside that six-week window — a January event, arriving after the November and December waves have passed.

What this filing does and does not tell us

A WARN notice is a report of a plan, not a confirmation of a completed layoff. The 91 workers in this filing are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. The filing does not say how many of those workers will actually lose their jobs, whether some will transfer to other properties, or whether the closure date will change. Notices can be amended, delayed, or cancelled, and the registry record reflects the filing as it stands today.

What the filing does establish is the legal minimum: the employer notified the state, the workers, and the public 62 days before the planned closure, in line with the WARN Act's 60-day requirement. For the 91 workers named in the plan, the notice period is the window in which to check unemployment eligibility, review health coverage options, and look into the state's Rapid Response services for workers facing a closure or mass layoff.

The closure also adds to a hospitality-sector thread in the 2026 data. Hotels and restaurants have appeared repeatedly in WARN filings this year, from the 83-worker DSquared Hospitality closure in Bellevue, Washington, effective December 20, 2026, to the 87-worker Chick-fil-A closure in Oxnard, California, effective December 31. The Marriott filing is the largest hotel closure notice in the current window, in the same metro area as the DSquared filing.

How to read the numbers

Two cautions apply to every WARN figure in this article. First, worker totals exclude notices with unavailable counts, so the true number of affected workers is higher than the published total wherever counts are missing — in the current 90-day window, 26 notices carry no worker count. Second, WARN coverage is not a census of layoffs. The law only covers employers with 100 or more full-time employees, and only closures and layoffs above its thresholds trigger a filing. Smaller employers and smaller cuts never appear in the data at all.

Data source: Layoff Atlas