Jonesboro, GA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Discovery Business & System Analyst Top Secret ClearanceCGS Federal (Contact Government Services)
- Nurse Mgr I, ACLS and PALS certifiedKaiser Permanente
- Project Engineer: Construction Coordination & Field QAWalsh Group
- Assistant Community Manager- The Woods at SouthlakePeak Living
- Community Manager- Maplewood PointePeak Living
- Community Manager- The Woods at SouthlakePeak Living
Employers hiring most in Jonesboro
- Peak Living3 open roles
- CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)1 open role
- Kaiser Permanente1 open role
- Walsh Group1 open role
Largest employers headquartered in Jonesboro
- Flowers Foods5,001–20,000 employees
Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.
Jonesboro layoffs
No layoff notices naming Jonesboro in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Clayton County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 8.0% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 0.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.4%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+6,915 jobs), private education (+1,280 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−1,880 jobs), retail (−639 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Jonesboro. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Georgia faces one of the nation's largest nursing gaps. Atlanta employers can start closing it from within.The Business Journals · Nov 5, 2026
- Atlanta mortgage lender to lay off dozens of workersThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution · Nov 1, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Georgia? How to file for unemployment in Georgia (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Atlanta Regional Workforce Development Board
Cherokee, Clayton, Douglas, Fayette, Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale
Clayton County economy
4.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.5% the month before
147,754
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
298,771
people in Clayton County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$58,507
median household income
Source: Census ACS
26%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Georgia’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. Georgia unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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