Washington WARN notices 2026: 135 notices, 28,705 workers

Washington received 135 WARN notices covering 28,705 workers from January 6 to November 4, 2026. Six of the ten largest come from farm and orchard employers, all filed between August 21 and September 28, 2026. The biggest is Gebbers Farms, Etal in Brewster: 3,445 workers, filed September 25, effective November 25, 2026.

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What the 135 notices say

• September was the busiest month by far. 37 notices, against 16 in March, the next highest.
• Washington's notices run large. The median notice covers 101 workers.
• Seattle has the most notices, Redmond the larger ones. Seattle has 16 notices and 1,843 workers. Redmond has 5 notices and 1,086 workers, and Bellevue 7 notices and 683 workers.
• 46 notices are closures and 89 are layoffs.
• Amazon and Starbucks filed 5 times each. Jack in the Box, Meta Platforms, Inc and CHS Northwest filed 3 each.
• More notices than last year, fewer workers. From January to November 4, 2025, Washington had 115 notices and 30,253 workers. From January 6 to November 4, 2026, it has 135 notices and 28,705 workers.

The ten largest

Employer names and places are as the state printed them.

Employer	Place	Workers	Notice date	Effective date
Gebbers Farms, Etal	Brewster	3,445	2026-09-25	2026-11-25
Amazon		2,198	2026-01-30	2026-04-28
Meta Platforms, Inc	King County	1,395	2026-05-22	2026-07-22
Legendary Fruit Co	Yakima, Wapato	1,220	2026-09-10	2026-11-10
FirstFruits, LLC	Prescott	1,200	2026-09-28	2026-11-18
Borton & Sons, Inc.	Yakima, Zillah, Pasco, Burbank, Prescott, Soap Lake, Othello	928	2026-08-21	2026-11-08
Blue Cascade Orchards	Yakima, Okanogan, Franklin, Grant, Adams, Walla Walla, and B	792	2026-09-14	2026-11-20
T-Mobile		637	2026-02-02	2026-04-02
Microsoft	Redmond	605	2026-07-06	2026-09-04
Columbia Reach Chiawana Orchards	Yakima, Kittitas, and Grant Counties	570	2026-09-17	2026-11-14

The farm and orchard notices all take effect in November 2026, between November 8 and November 25.

How Washington publishes its notices

The Washington Employment Security Department posts the notices. Its location cell is free text. One notice names a county ("King County"), others list up to seven towns, and one runs past the cell's limit and stops at "and B".

12 notices this year leave the location blank, Amazon's 2,198 and T-Mobile's 637 among them, so a city total will miss them. Count them by employer instead.

Every 2026 notice prints a worker count. The file holds 1,553 rows, and one exact twin from 2026 is folded into a single notice. We read it on November 10, 2026, and the newest notice in it is dated November 4, 2026.

Sort the Washington WARN list by effective date to see the November orchard notices together.