Employer · WARN Act history · Professional & Technical Services

Google

12,127 workers across 17 WARN notices, primarily in CA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.

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Google has 17 recorded WARN filings affecting 12,127 workers

According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Google has 17 recorded filings covering 12,127 workers across 1 state, primarily CA, the 13th-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.

Google drives the bulk of Professional & Technical Services WARN layoffs — 56% of the 21,639 workers tracked across 166 Professional & Technical Services employers, the #1 largest in the sector.

How 12,127 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.

Google 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.

99% of named-city WARN workers for Google sit in Mountain View (12,000 of 12,127).

Lead city Mountain View · 99% · 8 named cities · top-3 share 99.6%

DOL WARN employer filing desk

Employer GOOGLE · Google 12,127 workers · 17 filings

NOTC-MID · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNK · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-DUAL · TYPE-LAYOFF

  • NOTC-MID 17 filings
  • WORK-TOP #13
  • PHOTO-UNK No peer
  • RUNWAY-UNK Runway n/a
  • STAT-SINGLE CA
  • BOOK-DUAL 2 agencies
  • TYPE-LAYOFF 17 layoffs

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 Google 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.

  • Mountain View, CA · Layoff · Information Technology 12,000 workers · filed Jan 20, 2023 · 0d runway
  • Bordeaux Drive Sunnyvale, CA · Layoff · Professional & Technical Services 27 workers · filed Jan 26, 2026 · 0d runway
  • Bordeaux Drive Sunnyvale, CA · Layoff · Professional & Technical Services 24 workers · filed Jan 26, 2026 · 0d runway
  • Humboldt Court Sunnyvale, CA · Layoff · Professional & Technical Services 20 workers · filed Sep 29, 2025 · 0d runway
  • Moffett Park Drive Sunnyvale, CA · Layoff · Professional & Technical Services 19 workers · filed Jan 26, 2026 · 0d runway

Median forward runway across 17 dated filings: 0 days (17 under 60d · 0 at/above 60d · 17 same-day or retroactive).

What changed - Google WARN filings by year

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

  • 2023 → 2025: WARN workers affected for Google fell from 12,000 in 2023 to 50 in 2025; notice count rose from 1 to 9.
  • 2025 → 2026: WARN workers affected for Google rose from 50 in 2025 to 77 in 2026; notice count fell from 9 to 7.

Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2026.

Where Google 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. Google is in the 5k-15k bucket (#13 of 7,009 by workers affected).

Employer Profile

Primary State
CA
Primary Industry
Professional & Technical Services
First Notice
Jan 20, 2023
Latest Notice
Jan 26, 2026
States with Layoffs
CA
0 workers 2000 workers 4000 workers 6000 workers 8000 workers 10000 workers 12000 workers 2026 2025 2023 77 workers 50 workers 12000 workers
WARN Notices by Year: Google - Workers affected per year from WARN Act filings

WARN Notice History

2026

Mass Layoff

Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Jan 26, 2026

1

workers

Filed Jan 26, 2026

Mass Layoff

Humboldt Court Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Jan 26, 2026

1

workers

Filed Jan 26, 2026

Mass Layoff

Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Jan 26, 2026

2

workers

Filed Jan 26, 2026

Mass Layoff

Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Jan 26, 2026

3

workers

Filed Jan 26, 2026

Mass Layoff

Bordeaux Drive Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Jan 26, 2026

27

workers

Filed Jan 26, 2026

Mass Layoff

Bordeaux Drive Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Jan 26, 2026

24

workers

Filed Jan 26, 2026

Mass Layoff

Moffett Park Drive Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Jan 26, 2026

19

workers

Filed Jan 26, 2026

2025

Mass Layoff

Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Sep 29, 2025

9

workers

Filed Sep 29, 2025

Mass Layoff

Crossman Avenue Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Sep 29, 2025

1

workers

Filed Sep 29, 2025

Mass Layoff

Humboldt Court Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Sep 29, 2025

20

workers

Filed Sep 29, 2025

Mass Layoff

Humboldt Court Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Sep 29, 2025

1

workers

Filed Sep 29, 2025

Mass Layoff

Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Sep 29, 2025

1

workers

Filed Sep 29, 2025

Mass Layoff

Bordeaux Drive Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Sep 29, 2025

8

workers

Filed Sep 29, 2025

Mass Layoff

Mathilda Avenue Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Sep 29, 2025

4

workers

Filed Sep 29, 2025

Mass Layoff

Borregas Drive Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Sep 29, 2025

4

workers

Filed Sep 29, 2025

Show 2 earlier notices (2023-2025)

2025

Mass Layoff

Moffett Park Drive Sunnyvale, CA · Professional & Technical Services

Effective: Sep 29, 2025

2

workers

Filed Sep 29, 2025

2023

Mass Layoff

Mountain View, CA · Information Technology

Effective: Jan 20, 2023

12,000

workers

Filed Jan 20, 2023

Questions about this Google record

What is the largest Google WARN filing on record?

The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Mountain View, CA on Jan 20, 2023, covering 12,000 workers in Information Technology.

Where were Google's WARN notices filed?

The filings name Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, Humboldt Court Sunnyvale, and Bordeaux Drive Sunnyvale, among 8 named cities; together they form 17 mass-layoff filings sourced from California EDD and the public WARN archive. States represented in this record: CA.

Where is Google's WARN footprint concentrated by city?

99% of named-city WARN workers for Google sit in Mountain View (12,000 of 12,127).

Does Google's filing history show a recurring pattern?

The filing history spans 2023 through 2026 across 3 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.

How much advance notice appears in Google's record?

No trustworthy advance-notice runway can be derived from these rows because the source dates are equal, missing, or retroactive.

See also: CA WARN filings · Professional & Technical Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers

Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Google 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.