Oregon Layoffs: What the 2025 WARN Data Shows

Oregon recorded 47 layoff filings affecting 7,461 workers at 38 companies in 2025, according to records compiled from state WARN Act notices. By headcount, that is a modest share of national activity, but Oregon's year was unusually concentrated. Two notices from a single employer, Intel, account for 3,178 of those workers, about 43% of the state's total. They fall almost entirely on the company's sites in Hillsboro and Aloha. Beyond Intel, the filings trace the year's other pressures in the employers' own words: federal contract and funding decisions, closures of mills and plants in small towns, a major bank leaving its offices, and a hospital closing its doors.

The figures here come from LayoffTracker.us, which assembles layoff records exclusively from notices filed under the federal and state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. They cover the 2025 calendar year as of the dataset's snapshot dated October 17, 2026. Oregon's structured records leave out two fields other states provide: the city of each layoff and the date it takes effect. So this article takes both from the source documents. We read the original filing documents for all 47 of Oregon's 2025 notices, and the details below on location, timing, job titles, and stated reasons come from those filings. Two terms carry weight throughout and are not interchangeable: an event is a single WARN filing, and the affected-worker count is the headcount the employer attached to it.

Oregon in national context

Nationally, the dataset records 5,107 WARN filings affecting 410,888 workers at 2,520 companies in 2025. Oregon accounts for about 1.8% of the affected workers and under 1% of the filings, ranking 17th among states by headcount, between Iowa and Michigan. Its filings are large on average: at roughly 159 workers per filing, Oregon's notices run about twice the national figure of roughly 80. Most of that gap comes from Intel.

That national comparison needs a caveat. National totals reflect only the states that publish WARN data. Arkansas, New Hampshire, and Wyoming do not publish WARN notices at all, and Oklahoma files events without headcounts. The national figure is therefore a floor rather than a full census, and Oregon's share is a share of what was reported.

Against its own history, Oregon's 2025 total is the highest since the pandemic year, but only slightly above 2024:

Year	Filings	Affected workers
2020	114	20,934
2021	14	2,371
2022	15	1,589
2023	36	3,295
2024	41	7,198
2025	47	7,461

Affected workers rose 3.7% from 2024 and filings rose 14.6%. The bigger break came a year earlier, when Oregon's headcount more than doubled from 2023 to 2024. In other words, 2025 extended a level of layoff activity that 2024 had already reached rather than marking a new surge.

Intel's year

Intel filed two Oregon notices in 2025, and together they shape the state's entire picture.

The first began on July 7 with a letter to the state saying the action would affect "approximately 529 employees" and was "expected to be permanent." Three days later Intel revised it: the action would now affect "a combined total of approximately 2,392 employees." A third letter on August 25 added "an additional approximately 117 employees," bringing the filing to its recorded 2,509. The attached rosters place those positions at four sites:

Site	Positions
2501 NE Century Blvd, Hillsboro	1,544
2111 NE 25th Ave, Hillsboro	597
3585 SW 198th Ave, Aloha	194
5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro	174

The second notice, dated November 13, covers 669 more positions in Hillsboro and Aloha. It is notable mainly for its timing: the letter says "The first separations occurred during a 14-day period commencing on September 16, 2025," about two months before the notice itself. Intel explains that employees notified "approximately four weeks before their separations" are receiving "nine weeks of pay and benefits" in lieu of further notice. Both notices describe the same arrangement.

The rosters also show which jobs were cut, and they point to the manufacturing floor and the engineering that supports it. The largest title in both notices is Module Equipment Technician: 412 positions in the July filing and 327 in November. Next come Module Development Engineers (307 in July), Module Engineers (148), and Process Integration Development Engineers (93). Neither notice gives a reason for the cuts.

Intel is not the only Hillsboro filer. Edwards Vacuum notified the state of 128 layoffs at its Hillsboro facility in "the production business unit and in related support rules [sic]," running from November 2025 through June 2026. Wells Fargo is exiting support operations at a Hillsboro site affecting 265 workers. Together, the Hillsboro and Aloha filings make Washington County the clear center of Oregon's 2025 WARN record.

Where the filings landed

Because Oregon's records carry no city, the locations below come from the filing documents. The broad shape is clear: most affected workers are in the Portland metro area, but a large share of the filings themselves come from smaller places across the state.

Portland metro. Beyond Hillsboro and Aloha, the metro filings include:

• Vibra Specialty Hospital of Portland (310)
• Fred Meyer's Gateway store on NE 102nd Avenue (249)
• the UPS facility on N Basin Avenue (244)
• Powin's Portland and Tualatin operations
• ESS Tech's plant in Wilsonville (195)
• airport wheelchair services at Portland International Airport (157)
• Sherwood Food Distributors on NE Argyle (96)
• Owens-Brockway's glass plant on NE Glass Plant Road (90)
• Albertsons Store 0505 (87)
• Vacuum Technique in Clackamas (78)
• the Springdale Job Corps Center in Troutdale (77)
• Smurfit Westrock on N Burgard Way (72)
• Stefanini's support staff at Nike's Beaverton headquarters (69)
• Outside Van on NE Sandy Boulevard (56)
• Nordstrom's downtown Portland Rack (37)
• three Wells Fargo filings at downtown Portland sites

The Willamette Valley. PacificSource's 265-worker reduction is the most widely spread filing in the state. Its notice places 153 positions in Springfield, 52 in Bend, 38 in Portland, 21 in Salem, and 1 in Medford, and a second PacificSource notice adds 56 more in Springfield. In Salem, Wells Fargo is leaving its Hawthorne Avenue offices (147) and Macy's closed its Salem Center store (56). Oregon Mutual's notice lists 62 positions that report to its McMinnville headquarters.

Southern, central, and eastern Oregon.

• Medford: Rogue Valley Transportation District cut 82 positions, and Purelight Power's Oregon operation (109) was there.
• Prineville: Owens Corning closed its plant (184).
• Chiloquin: JELD-WEN closed its facility (128).
• Dillard: Roseburg Forest Products shut its hardwood plywood plant (107).
• Pilot Rock: Woodgrain closed its sawmill (62).
• Baker City: Safeway closed Store 4381 (82).
• Astoria: the Tongue Point Job Corps Center closed (168).
• Cascade Locks: Lignetics temporarily laid off 10 workers.
• Across eight towns: US Cellular's notice lists sites from Bend and Coos Bay to Hermiston and The Dalles.

A caution on these locations: they are where the documents place the affected sites, and several filings span multiple sites or include remote employees. They show where activity concentrated, but they do not form a precise city-by-city count.

How the year unfolded

Oregon's records lack layoff dates, so the dataset groups each filing by the month of its notice. The monthly pattern therefore shows when employers notified the state, not when jobs ended. Many of the documents set separation dates one to three months after the notice, and some set them later still.

Notice month	Filings	Affected workers
January	1	56
February	1	96
March	3	373
April	5	215
May	3	460
June	5	636
July	7	3,090
August	3	48
September	6	411
October	6	869
November	2	670
December	5	537

July dominates because Intel's first notice is filed there. The month's other six filings (Fred Meyer, Owens-Brockway, Rogue Valley Transportation District, Woodgrain, Outside Van, and Oregon Mutual) add 581 workers. June gathered the federal Job Corps closures, ESS Tech's plant closing, and Owens Corning's Prineville notice. October was shaped by a single day: on October 28, PacificSource and three Wells Fargo offices filed notices covering 711 workers between them. November is almost entirely Intel's second notice. December carried the Vibra hospital closure and Purelight Power's shutdown.

What the filings say about why

WARN notices are not required to explain themselves, and many don't. Of Oregon's 47 filings, 11 give no reason at all, including both Intel notices. Where employers did explain, the reasons fall into a few recognizable patterns. The groupings below follow what the documents say. They are not an industry classification, which the dataset does not yet support reliably.

Federal contracts and funding. Four filings covering 339 workers trace directly to federal decisions:

• Tongue Point Job Corps Center, Astoria (168): the operator, Management and Training Corporation, wrote that the U.S. Department of Labor terminated its contract "for convenience effective June 30, 2025. No new operator is being contracted to operate the Center."
• Springdale Job Corps Center (77) and PIVOT Job Corps Center (12): their operator, Career Systems Development, wrote that the department informed it on May 29 that it would end the contract, which was "the sole source of work" for staff at each center.
• Rogue Valley Transportation District, Medford (82): the transit agency wrote that it was "poised to experience a complete loss of federal funds" and "cannot maintain current service levels without federal funding." Its layoff falls mostly on coach operators.

Company shutdowns. Three companies filed notices that describe shutting down operations entirely:

• Powin, with operations in Portland and Tualatin, filed in May for 245 workers. Its notice warned of the "potential cessation of business operations of Powin LLC at all locations." In August, a filing from BESS Remain Co., "formerly known as Powin LLC," covered the layoff of "all employees … at all locations" (25). It may overlap the earlier notice.
• ESS Tech closed its Wilsonville plant (195), stating simply, "This is a plant closing." The letter is dated May 27 and gives May 30 as "the expected date of all employment losses."
• Purelight Power, whose Oregon operation was in Medford, filed in December for 109 workers as it shut down nationwide. It blamed federal legislation that it said "dramatically cut solar energy tax credits," and added: "Simply put, the Company is out of time and out of money."

Mills and plants. A cluster of closures falls in wood products and manufacturing:

• JELD-WEN, Chiloquin (128): the facility closed in two waves, at the end of June and on December 1.
• Roseburg Forest Products, Dillard (107): the hardwood plywood plant closed on September 25. The company wrote that operations staff "will not return to work but will remain on our payroll" through November 24.
• Woodgrain, Pilot Rock (62): the sawmill closed permanently.
• Owens Corning, Prineville (184): revised its separation schedule three times, finally ending at December 31.
• Owens-Brockway, Portland (90): the glass-bottle plant ended production but kept a warehouse running.
• Smurfit Westrock, Portland (72): the packaging plant's notice covers a first phase, and says "eventually the entire facility will close."
• Vacuum Technique, Clackamas (78) and Edwards Vacuum, Hillsboro (128): both cited "changing business needs."

Most of these notices give no further reason.

Health care and insurance.

• Vibra Specialty Hospital of Portland (310) is closing "due to ongoing financial challenges that have made it unsustainable to continue operations." Its roster is dominated by clinical staff: 95 registered nurses, 41 certified nursing assistants, 23 licensed practical nurses, and 22 respiratory therapists.
• PacificSource (265) attributed its reduction to "a significant loss of Medicaid membership in Lane County Oregon." A second PacificSource notice (56) followed the discontinuation of a third-party administration unit.
• Oregon Mutual (42 Oregon residents among 62 positions) cited a contract "to upgrade our technology, improve service options for agents and customers and reduce expenses."

Banking back offices. Wells Fargo filed five Oregon notices covering 499 workers, each announcing its "decision to exit support operations" at a location: Hillsboro (265), Salem (147), and three downtown Portland sites (50, 34, and 3). The rosters are made up of customer-service, escalation, loan-servicing, and financial-crimes staff. The Portland notice for 50 lists 24 Financial Crimes Specialists.

Contracts that moved elsewhere. Three filings reflect work changing hands rather than disappearing:

• Bags, A Metropolis Company (157): wheelchair agents and dispatchers at Portland International Airport lost the work when the company's contract with Alaska Airlines "will not be renewed." The notice adds that "the new company awarded the contract will extend offers of employment to the current employees."
• Stefanini (69): deskside technicians supporting Nike's Beaverton headquarters lost the work when Cognizant moved it "to another vendor."
• US Cellular (105): the notice traces its Oregon job losses to the sale of its wireless operations to T-Mobile.

Retail and logistics. The store closures are mostly self-explanatory:

• Fred Meyer's Gateway store (249)
• Safeway in Baker City (82)
• Albertsons on SW Beaverton Hillsdale Highway (87)
• Macy's Salem Center (56)
• Nordstrom's Portland Rack (37)
• Outside Van's Portland location (56)

Several promise transfers. Fred Meyer "intends to offer associates positions at other locations," and Albertsons expects that only "a small number of associates may experience separation." UPS filed for a temporary closure of its Portland facility "due to changes in our network." The facility had 916 hourly employees, of whom "only 244 inside manual workers are expected to experience an employment loss."

What these numbers do and don't tell you

Reading the documents against the structured records shows that an affected-worker count is the employer's filing figure, not an audited count of Oregonians who lost jobs. In several filings the two diverge:

• Counts that include people outside Oregon.
  • Powin's 245 includes 149 remote employees whose locations the notice does not give. BESS Remain's 25 includes 16 remote employees.
  • SambaNova's 16 counts remote staff across several states and Sweden.
  • AGC Biologics' record reflects one remote Oregon employee affected by Colorado plant closures.
  • Oregon Mutual's notice lists 62 positions; the recorded 42 are the Oregon residents among them.
• Counts that are not job losses.
  • Adobe's 47 are employees offered relocation to San Jose or Seattle when it closed its Portland office. The company filed in case enough of them declined to trigger WARN.
  • Albertsons' 87 and Nordstrom's 37 are everyone assigned to the closing store, and both companies offered transfers.
  • At the airport, the successor contractor offered jobs to the Bags workforce.
• Counts that are too low. Zeco Systems (Shell EV Charging Solutions) appears in the record with zero workers. Its notice identifies 2 Oregon employees among about 114 nationwide.
• Labels that undersell closures. Many filings recorded under Oregon's generic "Large Layoff" category describe full closures, including Vibra, Owens-Brockway, Woodgrain, and Wells Fargo's office exits.

None of this changes the year's main picture. Intel still dominates, Hillsboro is still the center, and the federal, mill, and bank filings stand as recorded. But Oregon's 7,461 is best read as the total employers filed, not a precise count of jobs lost in the state.

The WARN record also misses layoffs below the law's thresholds, and the documents can show only what employers chose to put in them. Where a notice gives no reason, this article does not supply one.

Methodology

Layoff data in this article is drawn from LayoffTracker.us, which compiles records from publicly filed state WARN Act notices. The dataset is limited to events that meet WARN thresholds. It excludes states without public WARN disclosure (Arkansas, New Hampshire, and Wyoming). Oklahoma reports events without affected-employee counts, so national totals reflect only the states that publish and should be read as a floor on total U.S. activity. Every record is sourced from a state WARN filing; the dataset does not incorporate company press releases or news reports. Industry classification across the dataset is still being enriched, so this article groups filings by what their documents say rather than by industry. State totals, the yearly trend, and the monthly series come from LayoffTracker's pre-computed analytics. Subtotals for named filings are sums of those individual records. Layoff figures are current as of the data snapshot dated October 17, 2026. For the full layoff-data methodology, see https://www.layofftracker.us/methodology.

Oregon's 2025 records do not include a city or an effective layoff date, so the dataset files each Oregon notice under its notice date. Locations, separation dates, job titles, and stated reasons in this article come from the original filing documents for all 47 notices. We obtained those documents from LayoffTracker's copies of the filings on Oregon's WARN site and read them in full, including scanned pages. Quotations are the employers' own words and represent their accounts, not independently verified causes.