Employer · WARN Act history · Real Estate
WeWork
5,400 workers across 2 WARN notices, primarily in NY - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 5,400
- Workers cut
- 2
- WARN notices
- 1
- State
- 2,700
- Avg / notice
WeWork has 2 recorded WARN filings affecting 5,400 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, WeWork has 2 recorded filings covering 5,400 workers across 1 state, primarily NY, the 23rd-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.
WeWork drives the bulk of Real Estate WARN layoffs — 36% of the 15,073 workers tracked across 25 Real Estate employers, the #1 largest in the sector.
How 5,400 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.
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer WEWORK · WeWork 5,400 workers · 2 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNK · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-SINGLE · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-LIGHT 2 filings
- WORK-TOP #23
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-UNK Runway n/a
- STAT-SINGLE NY
- BOOK-SINGLE 1 agency
- TYPE-MIX 1C/1L
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 WeWork 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.
- New York, NY · Closure · Real Estate 3,000 workers · filed Nov 6, 2023 · 0d runway
- New York, NY · Layoff · Real Estate 2,400 workers · filed Nov 1, 2019 · 0d runway
Median forward runway across 2 dated filings: 0 days (2 under 60d · 0 at/above 60d · 2 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - WeWork WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2019 → 2023: WARN workers affected for WeWork rose from 2,400 in 2019 to 3,000 in 2023; notice count held from 1 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2023.
Where WeWork 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. WeWork is in the 5k-15k bucket (#23 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Nov 2023.
WARN Notice History
2023
New York, NY · Real Estate
Effective: Nov 6, 2023
3,000
workers
Filed Nov 6, 2023
2019
New York, NY · Real Estate
Effective: Nov 1, 2019
2,400
workers
Filed Nov 1, 2019
Questions about this WeWork record
What is the largest WeWork WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the facility closure filed for New York, NY on Nov 6, 2023, covering 3,000 workers in Real Estate.
Where were WeWork's WARN notices filed? ▼
The record contains 1 facility closure and 1 mass-layoff filing centered on New York, sourced from the public WARN archive. States represented in this record: NY.
Does WeWork's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2019 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 WeWork's record? ▼
No trustworthy advance-notice runway can be derived from these rows because the source dates are equal, missing, or retroactive.
See also: NY WARN filings · Real Estate industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries WeWork 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.