Employer · WARN Act history · Retail Trade

Bed, Bath & Beyond

14,275 workers across 5 WARN notices, primarily in MD - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.

14,275
Workers cut
5
WARN notices
4
States
2,855
Avg / notice

Bed, Bath & Beyond has 5 recorded WARN filings affecting 14,275 workers

According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Bed, Bath & Beyond has 5 recorded filings covering 14,275 workers across 4 states, primarily MD, the 11th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.

Bed, Bath & Beyond is a major Retail Trade contributor — 11% of the sector's 135,000 WARN-laid-off workers across 330 employers, ranking #2 in Retail Trade.

How 14,275 workers split by filing year

Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.

Bed, Bath & Beyond WARN workers by state

Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.

Bed, Bath & Beyond WARN workers by year and state

Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 4 states by total workers affected.

Year NJMDCOWI Total
2023 14,000 14,000
2020 1229855 275

Bed, Bath & Beyond city concentration · single-city dominant

Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.

98.8% of named-city WARN workers for Bed, Bath & Beyond sit in Union (14,000 of 14,177).

Lead city Union · 98.8% · 4 named cities · top-3 share 99.8%

DOL WARN employer filing desk

Employer BED-BATH-BEY · Bed, Bath & Beyond 14,275 workers · 5 filings

NOTC-MID · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNDER · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-MIX

  • NOTC-MID 5 filings
  • WORK-TOP #11
  • PHOTO-UNK No peer
  • RUNWAY-UNDER 0d
  • STAT-MULTI 4 states
  • BOOK-MULTI 4 agencies
  • TYPE-MIX 1C/4L

Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.

Largest Bed, Bath & Beyond WARN filings · notice runway

Top 5 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.

  • Union, NJ · Closure · Retail Trade 14,000 workers · filed Apr 23, 2023 · 0d runway
  • CO · Layoff · Retail Trade 98 workers · filed Apr 17, 2020 · 0d runway
  • 7, MD · Layoff · Retail Trade 95 workers · filed May 27, 2020 · retroactive dates
  • Brookfield, WI · Layoff · Retail Trade 55 workers · filed Apr 24, 2020 · retroactive dates
  • 2, MD · Layoff · Retail Trade 27 workers · filed Nov 17, 2020 · 59d runway

Median forward runway across 5 dated filings: 0 days (5 under 60d · 0 at/above 60d · 4 same-day or retroactive).

What changed - Bed, Bath & Beyond WARN filings by year

Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .

  • 2020 → 2023: WARN workers affected for Bed, Bath & Beyond rose from 275 in 2020 to 14,000 in 2023; notice count fell from 4 to 1.

Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2023.

Where Bed, Bath & Beyond Falls Among Tracked Employers

7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected

Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Bed, Bath & Beyond is in the 5k-15k bucket (#11 of 7,009 by workers affected).

Employer Profile

Primary State
MD
Primary Industry
Retail Trade
First Notice
Apr 17, 2020
Latest Notice
Apr 23, 2023
States with Layoffs
COMDNJWI
0 workers 3000 workers 6000 workers 9000 workers 12000 workers 15000 workers 2023 2020 14000 workers 275 workers
WARN Notices by Year: Bed, Bath & Beyond - Workers affected per year from WARN Act filings

WARN Notice History

2023

Facility Closure

Union, NJ · Retail Trade

Effective: Apr 23, 2023

14,000

workers

Filed Apr 23, 2023

2020

Mass Layoff

2, MD · Retail Trade

Effective: Jan 15, 2021

27

workers

Filed Nov 17, 2020

Mass Layoff

7, MD · Retail Trade

Effective: Apr 4, 2020

95

workers

Filed May 27, 2020

Mass Layoff

Brookfield, WI · Retail Trade

Effective: Apr 4, 2020

55

workers

Filed Apr 24, 2020

Mass Layoff

CO · Retail Trade

Effective: Apr 17, 2020

98

workers

Filed Apr 17, 2020

Questions about this Bed, Bath & Beyond record

What is the largest Bed, Bath & Beyond WARN filing on record?

The largest row is the facility closure filed for Union, NJ on Apr 23, 2023, covering 14,000 workers in Retail Trade.

Where were Bed, Bath & Beyond's WARN notices filed?

The filings name Union, 2, and 7, among 4 named cities; together they form 1 facility closure and 4 mass-layoff filings sourced from the public WARN archive and Maryland DLLR and Wisconsin DWD and Colorado CDLE. States represented in this record: CO, MD, NJ, WI.

Where is Bed, Bath & Beyond's WARN footprint concentrated by city?

98.8% of named-city WARN workers for Bed, Bath & Beyond sit in Union (14,000 of 14,177).

Does Bed, Bath & Beyond's filing history show a recurring pattern?

The filing history spans 2020 through 2023 across 2 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.

How much advance notice appears in Bed, Bath & Beyond's record?

The measurable notice runway is between 30 and 59 days; the WARN pay tool can value the gap, but only a qualified adviser can determine whether an exception applies. Of 5 filings on record, 2 dated effective before the notice itself and 2 without a published effective date are excluded from that figure.

See also: MD WARN filings · Retail Trade industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers

Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Bed, Bath & Beyond notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.

Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.