Laid off from GEODIS.

What GEODIS layoffs have meant for employees

At a GEODIS warehouse, the layoff letter can name a company that isn't GEODIS. The August 2022 letter to Ohio said its client GOAT Group would "cease all business operations" at the Columbus building and that, "as a result of the Facility's shutdown," GEODIS had to conduct a mass layoff there. Supply Chain Dive has described clients changing or moving their operations as a recurring reason for mass layoffs in contract logistics, and it pointed to CEVA Logistics planning layoffs at its Nashville campus over changes from its customer. If you work in a GEODIS building, news about the client whose goods you handle, such as plans to move or shut down its operations there, can bear on your job, and it's worth following alongside news about GEODIS itself. If you're weighing a job at a GEODIS site, it's worth knowing which client the building serves and how long that client has been there.

Sometimes the work stays inside GEODIS while the building it left is set to close. The Monroe Township customer shifted its work to another GEODIS building in eastern Pennsylvania, a spokesperson told WFMZ, which reported that GEODIS ran two warehouses in Upper Macungie Township and had operations in Allen, Weisenberg and Bethlehem townships. If your site is closing because its client moved to another GEODIS building, one question worth putting to GEODIS is whether that building has roles open to the people losing theirs.

Need It Now Delivers, a final-mile and home delivery company GEODIS acquired in October 2022, according to NJBIZ, ran more than 65 locations and over 300 distribution points when the deal closed. Its June 2025 notices went in under its own name, and only the Maryland filing adds GEODIS beside it. If you worked for Need It Now, a notice for your site may sit under that name rather than GEODIS's, and our WARN tracker can be searched under both. GEODIS's own notices have gone in as GEODIS, GEODIS Logistics and GEODIS LLC.

GEODIS's 2022 Columbus letter shows what one of its notices can hold. It set a window rather than a single day, saying the layoffs would come "no later than October 31, 2022, but no sooner than 60 days from the date of this notice." It listed each job title being cut, with material handlers making up 31 of the 60 jobs, said no union represented the staff and the layoffs carried no "bumping" rights, and named a senior regional HR manager for further information. If you're holding a GEODIS notice, confirming in writing the date your own job ends is worth doing, and if it lists job titles, so is checking that yours is there. If GEODIS offers help finding new work, as its statements on the Kutztown and Monroe Township cuts promised, it's reasonable to ask what that help consists of and how long it lasts, and if it offers you a severance agreement, there's more on negotiating a severance agreement.

New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California are where GEODIS units' notices in the tracker cover the most jobs, and New Jersey unemployment benefits, Ohio unemployment benefits, Pennsylvania unemployment benefits and California unemployment benefits lay out how each of those states takes a claim. If your job was in Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida or Maryland, where GEODIS units also filed notices in 2025 or 2026, Tennessee unemployment benefits, Kentucky unemployment benefits, Florida unemployment benefits and Maryland unemployment benefits do the same for those states.

A sourced history of GEODIS layoffs

• July 2026, Boone County, Kentucky layoffs

  A July 10 Kentucky filing in our WARN tracker set 73 GEODIS layoffs in Boone County to begin September 8.

• July 2026, GEODIS sets Redlands, California closing

  GEODIS set its Redlands site to close September 3, affecting 81 jobs, in a July 6 notice to California that our WARN tracker records.

• May 2026, GEODIS sets Carlisle, Pennsylvania closing

  GEODIS told ABC27 it would close its Carlisle distribution center August 31, affecting 185 workers, to "better align our business priorities" and advance its long-term strategy, with its WARN notice issued May 19.

• April 2026, Rialto, California warehouse layoffs

  An April 28 notice to California, reported by FreightWaves and listed in our WARN tracker, put 238 layoffs at GEODIS's Rialto warehouse starting July 3.

• March 2026, Ashville, Ohio layoffs

  GEODIS LLC's March 3 notice to Ohio covered 105 Ashville jobs, with layoffs effective April 28, one of the 2026 filings in our WARN tracker.

• June and July 2025, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee closing notices

  Tennessee recorded two GEODIS Logistics closing notices for one Mt. Juliet address, 40 jobs in a June 10 memo effective July 31 and 57 in a July 24 memo effective September 30.

• June 2025, Need It Now Delivers notices in Maryland, Florida

  Need It Now Delivers, the delivery company NJBIZ reported GEODIS bought in 2022, gave June 11 notice of August 9 layoffs for 72 jobs in Glen Burnie, Maryland, 103 in Jupiter, Florida and 68 in Fort Lauderdale, all in our WARN tracker.

• Early 2025, Monroe Township, New Jersey warehouse closing

  A GEODIS spokesperson said a key customer had moved its operations to a GEODIS facility in eastern Pennsylvania, NJBIA reported, as notices covered 92 Monroe Township layoffs effective April 27 and 334 more on July 31, when the Costco Drive center was set to close.

• July 2024, CaseStack contract loss sets Texas, Georgia closings

  Losing client CaseStack's contract led to planned closings in Grand Prairie, Texas, 76 jobs, and McDonough, Georgia, 68, according to state filings FreightWaves cited; our WARN tracker dates the Texas notice July 25.

• March 2023, Kutztown, Pennsylvania layoffs after Everlane's move

  GEODIS's March 8 notice, as Supply Chain Dive reported it, set 107 Kutztown layoffs for on or about July 31, citing clothing retailer Everlane's decision to move operations outside the US.

• 2022, Columbus, Ohio layoffs as DSW and GOAT Group move

  Two mass layoffs at one Columbus facility, 362 employees in all, followed clients DSW and GOAT Group deciding to move elsewhere on the East Coast, Supply Chain Dive reported; GEODIS's August 2022 letter put the GOAT Group layoffs at 60.

What to do if you're laid off from GEODIS

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. GEODIS's biggest hubs: New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California. 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 GEODIS's hub states run: New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, 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.