Layoff tracker United States + Europe

Company layoffs in 2026

Track publicly announced job cuts across the United States and Europe, with searchable records and monthly trends.

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Jobs affected

235,995

Reported in 2026

Layoff announcements

646

Across the U.S. and Europe

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Sep 2

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646 announcements

235,995 reported job cuts

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About 130 Location not specified, New Zealand Supermarket Retail
Up to 120 Location not specified, Japan Nursing and Rehabilitation Care
Up to 180 Málaga, Spain Technology and Shared Business Services
About 600 Switzerland and other markets Life Insurance and Financial Services
Not disclosed Nashville, Tennessee Hospital and Health Care Services
78 Contra Costa and Alameda counties, California Hospital and Health Care Services
95 Palo Alto, California Hospital and Health Care Services
Kohler
About 400 Andradas, Minas Gerais Plumbing Products Manufacturing
32 Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario Higher Education
About 220 Baiersbronn, Germany Paperboard Manufacturing
About 33 Hengelo, Netherlands Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
99 South San Francisco, California; Hayward, California Cell Therapy Biotechnology
SunwelsUp to 120

· Location not specified, Japan

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Sunwels opened a voluntary-retirement program for up to 120 employees across its Japanese care operations.

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Swiss LifeAbout 600

· Switzerland and other markets

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Swiss Life plans to remove about 600 positions by the end of 2028, split roughly evenly between Switzerland and operations abroad.

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KohlerAbout 400

· Andradas, Minas Gerais

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Kohler is closing its factory in Andradas, Brazil, affecting about 400 direct employees and ending the local Fiori brand operation.

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· Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario

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Conestoga College laid off 32 full-time faculty members as lower international enrollment continued to shrink its programs and staffing.

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· Hengelo, Netherlands

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About 33 employees are losing their jobs after four We Drive Solar operating subsidiaries entered bankruptcy in the Netherlands.

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· South San Francisco, California; Hayward, California

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ArsenalBio cut 99 jobs across teams and locations as it narrowed its research around in-vivo CAR-T programs.

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How we count layoffs

We use the public announcement date and preserve published counts, estimates, percentages, and ranges. Coverage of the same layoff is combined before an entry is published. AI may help draft summaries, which are checked before publication.

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