Insights · Layoffs
Groundwork research · Published October 30, 2026 · Data as of June 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Apple Inc. is in the news for job cuts. The public records hold 5 state layoff notices from Apple Inc. between October 21, 2025 and October 20, 2026, naming 282 workers, and the latest is dated August 20, 2026.
Employers file a WARN notice with a state when a layoff or closing reaches a set size, ahead of the separation dates. Our snapshot of those notices runs through October 20, 2026. For the layoff year from October 21, 2025, it holds 5 notices for Apple Inc., and together they name 282 workers.
The latest notice is dated August 20, 2026 and lists the site at One Apple Park Way Cupertino CA 95014. A notice is an advance filing, and the worker total is a floor, because some notices list no headcount.
Workers named in layoff notices, by year
Workers named in WARN notices filed by the employer, by year.
The chart draws on the same snapshot. Each bar adds up the workers that notices name for that year, so it shows what the filings say and covers the separations employers reported to states.
The Labor Department publishes every certified H-1B wage filing. The records hold 8,419 for Apple Inc. across the months we load. Filings in Jul–Sep 2025 numbered 1,480, against 1,271 in Jul–Sep 2024. Between those two summers the trend is growing, and filings rose 16%.
Certified H-1B filings, the same months a year apart
The largest occupation by filings is Software Developers, with 3,531 filings and a median offered wage of $181,100. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer follows with 1,260 filings at $169,500, and Electrical Engineers has 511 at $159,890.
A WARN notice appears when an employer files it with a state, and the snapshot follows the states that publish. Reports of job cuts and the notices can cover different sites and different dates, so the records show what has been filed through October 20, 2026. H-1B filings describe sponsorship demand, and the wage figures are offered wages from the filings.
Sources for every figure on this page are listed below, and each draws on a public Labor Department or state record.
Layoff figures come from state WARN notices in the WARN Notice Register, current through October 20, 2026. A notice is the advance filing an employer with roughly 100 or more employees sends to a state agency before a layoff or closure. A notice that lists no headcount adds no workers to a total, so a worker total is a floor.
Hiring figures count certified H-1B wage filings (labor condition applications) in DOL's disclosure data, covering 15 months of DOL decisions (Jul–Sep 2024, Jul–Sep 2025, Oct 2025–Jun 2026). A filing is an employer's certified wage offer for a job, and a bigger employer files more.
The records cover cases DOL concluded and notices employers filed, and each figure describes what was recorded in them.
Layoff figures: how to read layoff notice data, what the notices can and cannot say and why some are missing.
Sources: WARN Notice Register; DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, LCA disclosure data.
Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.
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