More Layoffs Hit GA As Federal Job Numbers Fall

Employers announced more than 1,200 layoffs in Georgia in February, as federal officials reported a decrease of 92,000 jobs nationally for the month.

So far in 2026, there have been 3,027 layoffs announced in Georgia by more than two dozen different employers, according to the state's WARN notice archive, including nearly 800 jobs eliminated at Home Depot in Atlanta.

Under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification law, a company with 100 employees or more must give workers 60 days' notice of a layoff affecting 50 people or more at a single site.

Georgia companies announcing layoffs in February were:

• KIPP Atlanta Schools | 122 jobs
• GMRI Inc. | 78 jobs
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation | 3 jobs
• Tessera Therapeutics Inc. | 1 job
• Big Tex Trailer Manufacturing LLC | 100 jobs
• Aludyne Inc. | 341 jobs
• Liberty Dental Plan Corp. | 1 jobs
• WWL Vehicle Services Americas Inc. | 65 jobs
• Moove Cars Mobility USA Corp. | 83 jobs
• Impact Outsourcing Solutions VI LLC | 76 jobs
• Main Street Sports Group | 74 jobs
• ION Media Networks Inc. | 53 jobs
• IPIC Theaters LLC | 163 jobs
• MarketSource Inc. | 57 jobs

The 3,027 layoffs announced in Georgia in January and February were a 106 percent increase from the 1,468 layoffs announced in January and February 2025.

Nationally, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a decrease in jobs on March 6, which it said was affected in part by strike activity in health care. That included a nurses' strike in California, the New York Times reported.

As a result, the federal unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.4 percent, from 4.3 percent in January, federal officials said. Job losses were highest in the information sector and in federal employment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.

In Georgia, 4,153 people filed initial unemployment claims in the week ending Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The state unemployment rate was 3.6 percent in December, the most recent figures released by federal authorities.