Comcast has told Pennsylvania it will lay off 634 workers at its Philadelphia headquarters campus, and it has filed layoff notices covering hundreds more employees in Washington, New Jersey and California, with the first job losses set for Dec. 31. Pennsylvania’s WARN notice list shows the Philadelphia layoffs beginning Dec. 31, 2026. WARN notices are the advance warnings the federal and state plant-closing laws require before large layoffs.
The filings add up to nearly 1,000 jobs across the four states, according to Light Reading‘s tally of the state filings, and Comcast has not said how many people it will cut in total. The company is taking a restructuring charge of more than $1 billion in the fourth quarter tied to a broader cost transformation, the trade publication reports.
Where are the cuts, and when do they start?
Pennsylvania’s list shows one Comcast entry, under the name Comcast Technology Center, for 634 employees in Philadelphia County at 1800 Arch Street and 1701 JFK Boulevard. The notice is listed as a layoff beginning 12/31/2026 and ending 12/31/2027, so some workers in eliminated positions could stay a year past the first separations…