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What ManpowerGroup layoffs have meant for employees

On paper, the people Manpower places at clients work for ManpowerGroup, whose fiscal 2025 10-K calls the company the employer of its temporary and contract workers in most places, handling their withholding and unemployment tax. That's why HelloFresh's decision to end its Manpower relationship landed as ManpowerGroup notices, and at Irving, The Dallas Morning News reported, HelloFresh planned to keep the work at the site through other agencies. For anyone who switched agencies to stay, the Manpower job ended while the work went on. If you're offered a move like that, it's worth setting the new agency's terms beside the health and life insurance, paid holidays and paid vacations that the same filing reported ManpowerGroup providing to qualifying U.S. temporary workers in fiscal 2025.

For ManpowerGroup's own staff, the restructuring notes in its filings are the steadiest record of cuts, and most of that money has been booked outside the U.S. The fiscal 2023 10-K puts U.S. operations at $7.7 million of $113.9 million in 2023 severance costs, the year the company decided to wind down a German business and agreed severance terms with works councils there. In 2024 and 2025 U.S. severance ran $6.0 million and $2.6 million against company-wide totals of $47.5 million and $61.5 million, by the later 10-K, so the U.S. share stayed between about 4% and 13% while Northern Europe took the largest piece every year. For a U.S. staffer, the big restructuring figures mostly describe cuts somewhere else.

Milwaukee, home to the headquarters, has seen two of the staff cuts on record, and both times the company's own statement pinned them on the business, automation in 2017, gaming demand and the site's performance in 2024, according to CBS 58 and BizTimes. That framing is worth having in hand if you're explaining the gap to an employer later, and there's more on explaining a layoff. The IAM, the union for the game-testing workers, told a different story, of a hiring freeze and work moved to Tempe, Arizona. If you worked at either site, Wisconsin's claim rules are at Wisconsin unemployment benefits.

Not every office with the Manpower name belongs to ManpowerGroup. Its 10-K counted franchise offices across the U.S. at the end of 2025, each franchisee licensed to use the Manpower mark and paying fees on its own sales, and Illinois's records show a separate 99-job Aurora notice from January 2025 filed by Kane County Personnel, Inc., which did business as Manpower. So the name on the sign isn't always the name on the notice. ManpowerGroup's own filings in our WARN tracker, eight since 2016, carry four versions of its name, among them ManpowerGroup US Inc. and Manpower Group (Irving). If your assignment ended in one of the states on those notices, the claim rules are a click away for Arizona, Illinois and Texas.

Going forward, ManpowerGroup's stated plan is a transformation program it expects to deliver permanent annual savings in 2028. In the U.S. it says it's redesigning its sales and recruitment processes, and it's extending the program to the U.K., according to its third-quarter call transcript. The same company sells outplacement through Right Management, a business its 10-K calls counter-cyclical to staffing, and its third-quarter remarks said those outplacement volumes fell as layoff activity slowed. If you're on its staff now, the restructuring note in each quarterly filing, such as the June quarter 10-Q, is the nearest thing to a running record, showing restructuring costs by segment and, separately, reserve balances for the U.S., France and Italy.

A sourced history of ManpowerGroup layoffs

• First half of 2026, restructuring costs

  Restructuring costs came to $22.6 million in the first six months of 2026, $22.1 million of it severance and $9.2 million of that in the Americas, its June quarter 10-Q shows.

• January 2025, HelloFresh ends its Manpower staffing relationship

  HelloFresh's break with Manpower put 173 mostly production jobs at its Irving distribution center on notice, The Dallas Morning News reported, and Grocery Dive tied a 564-worker Goodyear, Arizona notice in our WARN tracker to a similar move.

• January 2025, three Illinois lost-contract notices

  Illinois's own report gives a lost contract as the cause of three Manpower Group US notices in our WARN tracker, at Aurora, Burr Ridge and Lake Zurich. The Lake Zurich address matches the Factor fulfillment center a 2022 REBusiness Online report described, and that report put Factor production plants in the other two towns.

• 2024 and 2025, restructuring charges

  ManpowerGroup booked net restructuring costs of $53.6 million in 2024 and $64.2 million in 2025, primarily for severance and office closures, the fiscal 2025 10-K records.

• August 2024, Experis Game Solutions Milwaukee site closing

  ManpowerGroup decided to close its Milwaukee game-testing site, citing gaming demand and the location's performance. An IAM statement reported by BizTimes said 23 unionized workers learned August 2 their jobs would end, and the union filed unfair labor practice charges the company refuted.

• July 2023, Proservia Germany wind-down announced

  ManpowerGroup said it would wind down Proservia, its German managed services business, booking $82.5 million of 2023 restructuring for it, $53.3 million of that severance and employee costs agreed with works councils, the fiscal 2023 10-K shows.

• March 2017, Milwaukee headquarters automation cuts

  About 150 jobs at ManpowerGroup's Milwaukee headquarters were to go over three to twelve months as it automated and digitized its business, the company said in a statement CBS 58 published, with outplacement and career transition benefits for those affected.

What to do if you're laid off from ManpowerGroup

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. ManpowerGroup's biggest hubs: Arizona, Illinois, Texas. 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 ManpowerGroup's hub states run: Arizona, Illinois, Texas, 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.