Laid off from Conduent.
Conduent's mid-2026 reduction reached so many remote workers that it produced 67 WARN notices across 28 states in our tracker, most filed within days of each other. Its own notice says the sites being closed are the employees' homes, and there are no terms on record.
At a glance
What's known about Conduent severance and layoffs
- 67 covering 449 jobs in 28 states · WARN filings in our tracker, 2026
- 81 · All-time Conduent filings in our tracker
- 70 jobs, Georgia, remote workers · Largest filing in the 2026 group
- Technical and billing contact center services · Work named in the company's own notice
- August 28, 2026 · United States end date in that notice
- Not published · Individual severance terms
- $19 million, company-wide · Severance and related costs, first half 2026
Recent Conduent layoffs
Conduent's June 2026 notice set August 28 separations for remote contact center staff
In a WARN notice dated June 26, 2026, Conduent told states that its technical and billing contact center work was ending, and that it expected to terminate the employees supporting it, all of whom work from home, on August 28, 2026. Filings carrying that August date sit in our tracker, including the group's largest, 70 jobs in Georgia. For 2026 the tracker holds 67 filings covering 449 jobs across 28 states.
Previous rounds
Conduent layoff history
If Conduent let you go this year, the filing that covers you is probably a small one, and that says more about how the company is built than about how many people lost work. Conduent runs back-office and customer service operations under contract, and its own annual report notes that many of its contracts with non-government clients can be ended by the client, without cause, on specified advance notice. Our tracker holds 81 Conduent filings all-time, with 67 of them in 2026 covering 449 jobs across 28 states.
Why those notices arrive small and nearly everywhere is spelled out in Conduent's own paperwork. In a WARN notice dated June 26, 2026, the company told Oregon it had been informed of a change in business needs, that the customer experience management work its affected group performed was ending, and that this would result in eliminating the positions attached to that work. The services named were the technical and billing contact center work that employees had been supporting from their homes across the United States. Every affected person worked from home, and the notice states it flatly, the addresses of the employment sites being affected are those homes.
Treating homes as the affected sites is what spread this one action across the map. Federal law measures a plant closing or a mass layoff at a single site of employment, counting 50 or more people at that site, and it makes the employer give 60 days of written notice to the affected workers, to the state entity that runs rapid response, and to the chief elected official where the layoff happens. Florida's own WARN page lists the same three recipients. Conduent filed in each state separately, and its 2026 record in our tracker reads as a scatter of small notices rather than one large one. State rules stack on top of the federal ones and are sometimes broader, so California reaches employers with 75 or more employees and layoffs of 50 or more inside 30 days. The largest filing in the 2026 group listed 70 jobs in Georgia, filed under a site description reading all remote workers, no physical site.
What Conduent has said about its cost base sits alongside all of that. The quarterly report describes a 2026 Restructuring Program, a transformation project it estimates at $30 million to $50 million, with an estimated completion date at the end of the first half of 2027. On the August 10, 2026 earnings call, chief executive Harsha Agadi put the makeup of an approximately $100 million annualized savings program at 60% to 70% headcount and 30% to 40% technology spend, and said the company had definitely dropped its employee count as each month went by. The same quarter's filing attributes lower revenue primarily to contract losses, including the loss of the largest Commercial segment customer, and to lower volumes. Conduent described roughly 51,000 associates worldwide in its report for 2025 and roughly 46,000 in August 2026, about 5,000 fewer by subtraction across two rounded global figures that both include the transportation business it was selling.
On what any of this paid, there are no terms on record. The Oregon notice covers the business reason, the end dates and a table of job titles, and it stops there. The only severance number Conduent publishes is an accounting one, $13 million booked in the second quarter of 2026 and $19 million across the first half, against $6 million and $7 million in the same periods a year earlier, and its filing defines that line as employee termination costs including severance, retraining and other contractual benefits. That total spans every program and every country, so it can't be divided into what one person received.
Your own paperwork is worth two specific checks. Find which state your notice was filed in, because that's the state whose unemployment system covers you, and the Labor Department's instruction is to claim where you worked rather than where the company sits. Then read your separation agreement against the dates in the notice, since the Oregon copy gave August 28, 2026 as the day the United States work stopped and named the positions going with it. If the two disagree, the date your employment actually ended is the one to give your state's unemployment agency. Our WARN filing tracker holds the state-by-state record if you want to see the filing covering your own state.
Reporting on previous Conduent layoff rounds
June to August 2026 · 67 filings covering 449 jobs across 28 states in the 2026 tracker record, heavy on remote employees. The largest listed 70 jobs in Georgia, filed under a site description reading all remote workers, no physical site. Conduent's notice to Oregon names the work as technical and billing contact center services and gives August 28, 2026 as the day the United States work stops.
Terms not published. Conduent booked $19 million of severance and related costs company-wide across the first half of 2026, an accounting total covering every program and country rather than a per-person amount.
How Conduent's layoffs compare to other companies
A remote workforce turns one reduction into dozens of filings, because notice goes to each state separately. Conduent's 2026 group shows it plainly, 67 filings across 28 states for what the company's own notice describes as a single program ending, and nothing in the reporting we track covered it as an event. The tracker has been the way to see it.
What to do after being laid off from Conduent
- File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Conduent's biggest hubs: Florida, California, Georgia. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
- Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Conduent's hub states run: Florida, California, Georgia, and every other state is here.
- Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
- Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
- Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.
Conduent layoff and severance questions
What severance does Conduent pay in layoffs?
There are no terms on record. Conduent's own WARN notice to Oregon runs two pages, describes the work ending, the dates and the positions, and says nothing about separation pay. The only severance figure the company publishes is an accounting one, $13 million booked in the second quarter of 2026 and $19 million across the first half, against $6 million and $7 million in the same stretches of 2025. Its filing defines that line as employee termination costs including severance, retraining and other contractual benefits, and it covers every country the company operates in, so it says nothing about any individual offer. Whatever yours was, the agreement you're holding is the version that counts.
Why does Conduent file so many small WARN notices?
Because the people doing the work are scattered across the country. Conduent's June 2026 notice says every affected employee works remotely from home, and that the addresses of the employment sites being affected are those homes. Federal law makes an employer serve notice on the affected workers, on the state entity that runs rapid response, and on the chief elected official where the layoff happens. Conduent treated each affected person's home state as its own filing, which is how 449 jobs turned into 67 filings across 28 states in our 2026 record.
I worked remotely for Conduent. Where do I file for unemployment?
In the state where you physically worked, which for remote work means the state you were sitting in. The Labor Department's rule is that your claim belongs to the unemployment program of the state where the work happened. If you've moved since, or split your time across states, the agency in your current state can point you to the right one. Conduent's 2026 notices were filed state by state, so our tracker may help you find the WARN record covering the state you worked in.
How many jobs did Conduent cut in 2026?
Our tracker holds 67 filings covering 449 jobs across 28 states for 2026, out of 81 Conduent filings all-time. Read that as jobs rather than as events. A filing is one state's notice, and a single decision affecting people in 28 states produces 28 sets of paperwork, so the filing count measures how spread out the workforce was more than how many times the company acted. The largest filing in the group listed 70 jobs.
Why is Conduent cutting jobs?
The company's notice to Oregon says it had been informed of a change in business needs, that the customer experience management work the affected group performed was ending, and that this would eliminate the positions attached to that work. Separately, in its quarterly filing Conduent reported that revenue for the first half of 2026 fell primarily on contract losses, including the loss of its largest Commercial segment customer, plus lower volumes. Its annual report also notes that many contracts with non-government clients can be ended by the client, without cause, on notice, which is the arrangement most of this work sits inside.
Where do I file for unemployment after being laid off from Conduent?
In the state where you worked, not where the company is headquartered. Conduent's biggest U.S. hubs are Florida, California, Georgia. Severance usually doesn't block you from filing, and benefits run from your filing date, so file the same week.
Is it OK to file for unemployment after a layoff at Conduent?
Yes. Unemployment insurance is funded by payroll taxes employers pay on wages, the claim never appears on credit reports or background checks, and future employers cannot see it. If the hesitation itself is the obstacle, whether filing is OK has its own article.
What happens to my health insurance after a layoff at Conduent?
Your plan sets the end date rather than the law, so the separation packet is where that date actually lives, and it is often the last day of the month rather than your last day of work. After coverage ends, COBRA lets you keep the identical plan by paying the whole premium yourself, up to 102 percent of what the plan really costs, which lands as several times the payroll deduction you were used to. You get 60 days to elect, counted from the later of coverage ending or the election notice arriving, and electing reaches the coverage back to the day the old plan stopped so no gap exists. How continuation coverage works walks the timing, and whether to take it rather than a marketplace plan is a separate decision.
Should I sign the severance agreement right away?
First pin down how much review time you actually have. If you're 40 or older, federal law gives you 21 days to consider an agreement that waives age claims, 45 in a group layoff, and a waiver signed under a shorter deadline can be invalid. If you're under 40, no federal window applies and the deadline in your packet may be real, so confirm it in writing and ask for more time if you need it. Use whatever window you have to read the release terms, especially non-disparagement and no-lawsuit clauses, and don't stall past a real deadline, because offers can be withdrawn.
Can I collect unemployment if I got severance from Conduent?
Usually yes, though some states delay benefits until severance pay periods end, and lump sums are treated differently than salary continuation. Check your state's rules on our state benefit pages, and file immediately either way so your claim date is locked in.