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The Washington Employment Security Department lists 159 workers in Washington under Comcast. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry separately lists 634 workers under the name Comcast Technology Center, at 1800 Arch Street and 1701 JFK Boulevard, Philadelphia. Each entry carries its own schedule and scope.
Reported by the sources
The Washington Employment Security Department lists Comcast with 159 workers affected in Washington. The Washington Employment Security Department shows the notice as received on October 29, 2026 and lists the layoff period from December 31, 2026, with the layoff type given as permanent.
Reported by the sources
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry lists 634 workers at 1800 Arch Street and 1701 JFK Boulevard, Philadelphia, with scheduled dates December 31, 2026 to December 31, 2027. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry places the entry under Comcast Technology Center in its October group, and gives no day for the notice.
Reported by the sources
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry lists this count, at 1800 Arch Street and 1701 JFK Boulevard, Philadelphia
The Washington Employment Security Department lists this count, in Washington
Reported by the sources
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on October 30, 2026 that Comcast is laying off employees at its Philadelphia headquarters, with the layoffs set to take effect at the end of December according to a notice filed with Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the roles include engineers, product managers and IT leaders. The Philadelphia Inquirer also reported, citing the layoff notice, a plan for at least 500 new positions in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported a plan for at least 1,100 new positions in the restructuring.
Groundwork's context
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry lists a beginning and an ending date. The Washington Employment Security Department lists a start date and no end date. These fields describe the scheduled dates recorded by each agency; actual departures would require separate reporting. The Pennsylvania range supplies endpoints, while the page leaves the timing of individual departures unspecified. Each state count covers the workers named in that state's entry.
Groundwork's context
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry and the Washington Employment Security Department publish separate state records, and this piece reports each record on its own terms. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported a Pennsylvania notice and described the roles affected. Readers who want the full picture can open the registers linked in the sources, read each row, and check the other states where the company operates. Open questions remain: how the Pennsylvania and Washington counts relate to one another, which company decision they trace to, and what the final departure dates will be. No linked source answers these questions, and this piece offers no estimate of a company-wide figure.
Groundwork's context
The Washington Employment Security Department lists a Comcast notice received on October 29, 2026. The saved-copy query found no matching WARN notices naming Comcast Cable Communications, LLC for WA, using recorded event dates October 29, 2026 to November 5, 2026 and including undated records, in the WARN Notice Register snapshot whose newest record was added on November 5, 2026. An event date is the notice date when available, otherwise the effective date. The longer company name in this result is the warehouse's matched entity for Comcast; it is the name used in this saved-copy query. The saved copy may still be awaiting this state entry. This result describes the saved copy's filters; the state register above is the source for that notice. We inspected this copy on November 7, 2026.
November 7, 2026
The saved-copy query found no matching WARN notices naming Comcast Cable Communications, LLC for WA, using recorded event dates October 29, 2026 to November 5, 2026 and including undated records, in the WARN Notice Register snapshot whose newest record was added on November 5, 2026. An event date is the notice date when available, otherwise the effective date
November 5, 2026
State WARN Act layoff notices (WARN Notice Register), snapshot whose newest record was added November 5, 2026, inspected November 7, 2026
Distinct reporting origins are not independent confirmation.
A figure is the source's own statement of its own scope; no total is made across claims.
Washington Employment Security Department · agency record · Claim status: reported · in Washington · from December 31, 2026. Publication date not stated; received October 29, 2026; retrieved November 7, 2026.
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry · agency record · Claim status: reported · at 1800 Arch Street and 1701 JFK Boulevard, Philadelphia · December 31, 2026 to December 31, 2027. Publication date not stated; retrieved November 7, 2026.
The Philadelphia Inquirer · media report · Claim status: reported · at Philadelphia headquarters. Published October 30, 2026; retrieved November 7, 2026.
The Philadelphia Inquirer · media report · Claim status: reported · at Philadelphia. Published October 30, 2026; retrieved November 7, 2026.
The Philadelphia Inquirer · media report · Claim status: reported · scope not stated. Published October 30, 2026; retrieved November 7, 2026.
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