Employer · WARN Act history · Retail Trade
Sears Holdings
5,110 workers across 2 WARN notices, primarily in IN - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 5,110
- Workers cut
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- WARN notices
- 2
- States
- 2,555
- Avg / notice
Sears Holdings has 2 recorded WARN filings affecting 5,110 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Sears Holdings has 2 recorded filings covering 5,110 workers across 2 states, primarily IN, the 25th-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.
Sears Holdings accounts for 3.8% of Retail Trade's 135,000 WARN-laid-off workers across 330 tracked employers in the dataset — #6 in Retail Trade by workers affected.
How 5,110 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.
Sears Holdings 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.
Sears Holdings WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 2 states by total workers affected.
| Year | IL | IN | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5,000 | – | 5,000 |
| 2008 | – | 110 | 110 |
Sears Holdings 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.
97.8% of named-city WARN workers for Sears Holdings sit in Hoffman Estates (5,000 of 5,110).
Lead city Hoffman Estates · 97.8% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer SEARS-HOLDIN · Sears Holdings 5,110 workers · 2 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-DUAL · TYPE-CLOSE
- NOTC-LIGHT 2 filings
- WORK-TOP #25
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 44d
- STAT-MULTI 2 states
- BOOK-DUAL 2 agencies
- TYPE-CLOSE 2 closures
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 Sears Holdings WARN filings · notice runway
Top 2 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.
- Hoffman Estates, IL · Closure · Retail Trade 5,000 workers · filed Feb 11, 2019 · 0d runway
- Indianapolis (2 locations), IN · Closure · Retail Trade 110 workers · filed Oct 15, 2008 · 88d runway
Median forward runway across 2 dated filings: 44 days (1 under 60d · 1 at/above 60d · 1 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Sears Holdings WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2008 → 2019: WARN workers affected for Sears Holdings rose from 110 in 2008 to 5,000 in 2019; notice count held from 1 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2019.
Where Sears Holdings 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. Sears Holdings is in the 5k-15k bucket (#25 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- IN
- Primary Industry
- Retail Trade
- First Notice
- Oct 15, 2008
- Latest Notice
- Feb 11, 2019
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Feb 2019.
WARN Notice History
2019
Hoffman Estates, IL · Retail Trade
Effective: Feb 11, 2019
5,000
workers
Filed Feb 11, 2019
2008
Indianapolis (2 locations), IN · Retail Trade
Effective: Jan 11, 2009
110
workers
Filed Oct 15, 2008
Questions about this Sears Holdings record
What is the largest Sears Holdings WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the facility closure filed for Hoffman Estates, IL on Feb 11, 2019, covering 5,000 workers in Retail Trade.
Where were Sears Holdings's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Hoffman Estates and Indianapolis (2 locations); together they form 2 facility-closure filings sourced from the public WARN archive and Indiana DWD. States represented in this record: IL, IN.
Where is Sears Holdings's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
97.8% of named-city WARN workers for Sears Holdings sit in Hoffman Estates (5,000 of 5,110).
Does Sears Holdings's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2008 through 2019 across 2 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Sears Holdings's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway clears the federal 60-day baseline; use the dated filing history to see which location and event produced it. Of 2 filings on record, 1 without a published effective date is excluded from that figure.
See also: IN WARN filings · Retail Trade industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Sears Holdings 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.