ServiceNow Files Two More California WARN Notices: 62 Workers, Effective January 4, 2027

ServiceNow has filed two more WARN notices in California, covering 62 workers at its Santa Clara and San Diego offices. Both notices were filed on November 4, 2026, with a planned effective date of January 4, 2027. Both are classified as permanent layoffs, and both come from official filings with the California Employment Development Department (EDD).

The filings are the company's third set of WARN notices in California this year — and they follow a clear pattern. Every ServiceNow filing in 2026 has hit the same two sites, in the same pairing: Santa Clara and San Diego together.

The two new filings

The larger of the two notices covers the Santa Clara office: 37 workers at 2225 Lawson Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054, in Santa Clara County. The second covers the San Diego office: 25 workers at 4801 Eastgate Mall, San Diego, CA 92121, in San Diego County.

Both notices give 61 days between the filing date and the effective date — one day more than the 60 days the federal WARN Act requires for a qualifying mass layoff or plant closure. That is the minimum cushion the law is designed to provide: time for affected workers to look for a new job, file for unemployment, and make plans before the last day of work.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN filing records what an employer says it intends to do; the final headcount can change before the effective date, and the registry reflects the filed numbers.

A third round in five months

What makes these filings worth a closer look is the pattern. ServiceNow has now filed five WARN notices in California in 2026, all at the same two offices:

• July 28, 2026: 154 workers in Santa Clara and 133 in San Diego, effective September 28 — 287 workers in total, by far the largest round.
• October 13, 2026: 2 workers in Santa Clara and 18 in San Diego, effective December 14 — 20 workers in total.
• November 4, 2026: 37 workers in Santa Clara and 25 in San Diego, effective January 4, 2027 — 62 workers in total.

Added together, the five filings cover 369 workers in 2026. The July round accounts for nearly four-fifths of that total; the two later rounds are much smaller, and they arrive in quick succession — the October round takes effect on December 14, and the November round follows three weeks later, on January 4.

The paired structure is consistent: in each round, Santa Clara takes the larger share except in October, when San Diego's 18 exceeded Santa Clara's 2. The repetition suggests staged reductions at the two sites rather than a single event, with each round filed separately as decisions were made.

California's outsized share of the national picture

ServiceNow's filings land in the state that dominates the national WARN numbers. California accounts for 21,514 reported workers in Layoff Atlas's current 90-day window — about a third of the national total of 65,134 workers across 703 notices. Washington is second at 17,411, and no other state is close: Illinois is third at 3,548, followed by Texas at 2,750 and Virginia at 2,546.

The state's totals are so large that one employer's notices barely move them — but the steady flow of filings from large employers is exactly what keeps California at the top of the ranking week after week.

Nationally, the calendar ahead is heavy. The week of November 14 is the busiest on the six-week calendar, with 8,510 workers scheduled, followed by the weeks of November 21 (6,925) and November 28 (6,063). The current week, starting November 7, has 4,155 workers scheduled. The weeks of December 5 (1,090) and December 12 (3,755) are much lighter — and ServiceNow's October round, effective December 14, falls inside that quieter December 12 week.

The January 4 effective date sits beyond the six-week window the registry currently displays, which ends December 12. It is a reminder that the WARN calendar extends further than the near-term view: notices filed now are already shaping the first weeks of 2027.

What the notice period means for affected workers

For the 62 workers named in these filings, the 61-day notice period is the practical core of the WARN Act. During that period, workers are still employed, still paid, and still covered by their employer's health plan. The notice is also the trigger for the next steps: filing for unemployment benefits with the California EDD, checking whether severance or extended benefits are offered, and confirming the exact last day of work, since effective dates in a filing can shift.

Workers who believe they did not receive the notice they were owed can check the filing itself — the official record is public through the EDD — and can contact the EDD or an employment lawyer. The WARN Act's remedy for a violation is back pay and benefits for each day of notice shortfall, up to 60 days.

ServiceNow's two new filings are small next to its July round, and small next to the largest recent filings in the registry. But they extend a pattern that has now run for five months at the same two California offices — and they add 62 more workers to a January calendar that is only just starting to fill in.

Data source: Layoff Atlas