Employer · WARN Act history · Information Technology
Warner Bros. Discovery
1,183 workers across 5 WARN notices, primarily in CA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 1,183
- Workers cut
- 5
- WARN notices
- 3
- States
- 237
- Avg / notice
Warner Bros. Discovery has 5 recorded WARN filings affecting 1,183 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Warner Bros. Discovery has 5 recorded filings covering 1,183 workers across 3 states, primarily CA, the 131st-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.
Warner Bros. Discovery accounts for 1.0% of Information Technology's 117,723 WARN-laid-off workers across 194 tracked employers in the dataset — #16 in Information Technology by workers affected.
How 1,183 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.
Warner Bros. Discovery 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.
Warner Bros. Discovery WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 3 states by total workers affected.
| Year | NY | WA | CA | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 131 | 52 | 183 |
| 2022 | 1,000 | – | – | 1,000 |
Warner Bros. Discovery 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.
84.5% of named-city WARN workers for Warner Bros. Discovery sit in New York (1,000 of 1,183).
Lead city New York · 84.5% · 4 named cities · top-3 share 99.7%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer WARNER-BROS- · Warner Bros. Discovery 1,183 workers · 5 filings
NOTC-MID · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-EXACT · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-MID 5 filings
- WORK-HEAVY #131
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-EXACT 60d
- STAT-MULTI 3 states
- BOOK-MULTI 3 agencies
- TYPE-LAYOFF 5 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 Warner Bros. Discovery 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.
- New York, NY · Layoff · Information Technology 1,000 workers · filed Nov 21, 2022 · 0d runway
- Kirkland, WA · Layoff · Other Services 131 workers · filed Feb 25, 2025 · 60d runway
- California Street Burbank, CA · Layoff · Information Technology 38 workers · filed Jul 30, 2025 · 0d runway
- California Street Burbank, CA · Layoff · Information Technology 11 workers · filed Jul 30, 2025 · 0d runway
- Warner Blvd Burbank, CA · Layoff · Information Technology 3 workers · filed Jul 30, 2025 · 0d runway
Median forward runway across 5 dated filings: 0 days (4 under 60d · 1 at/above 60d · 4 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Warner Bros. Discovery WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2022 → 2025: WARN workers affected for Warner Bros. Discovery fell from 1,000 in 2022 to 183 in 2025; notice count rose from 1 to 4.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2025.
Where Warner Bros. Discovery 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. Warner Bros. Discovery is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#131 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- CA
- Primary Industry
- Information Technology
- First Notice
- Nov 21, 2022
- Latest Notice
- Jul 30, 2025
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Jul 2025.
WARN Notice History
2025
California Street Burbank, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Jul 30, 2025
11
workers
Filed Jul 30, 2025
California Street Burbank, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Jul 30, 2025
38
workers
Filed Jul 30, 2025
Warner Blvd Burbank, CA · Information Technology
Effective: Jul 30, 2025
3
workers
Filed Jul 30, 2025
Kirkland, WA · Other Services
Effective: Apr 26, 2025
131
workers
Filed Feb 25, 2025
2022
New York, NY · Information Technology
Effective: Nov 21, 2022
1,000
workers
Filed Nov 21, 2022
Questions about this Warner Bros. Discovery record
What is the largest Warner Bros. Discovery WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for New York, NY on Nov 21, 2022, covering 1,000 workers in Information Technology.
Where were Warner Bros. Discovery's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name California Street Burbank, Warner Blvd Burbank, and Kirkland, among 4 named cities; together they form 5 mass-layoff filings sourced from California EDD and Washington ESD and the public WARN archive. States represented in this record: CA, NY, WA.
Where is Warner Bros. Discovery's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
84.5% of named-city WARN workers for Warner Bros. Discovery sit in New York (1,000 of 1,183).
Does Warner Bros. Discovery's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2022 through 2025 across 2 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Warner Bros. Discovery's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway lands exactly on the federal 60-day baseline; verify the source dates before treating that timing as final. Of 5 filings on record, 4 without a published effective date are excluded from that figure.
See also: CA WARN filings · Information Technology industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Warner Bros. Discovery 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.