Needham, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Needham

• Senior Vice President, Retirement, Investment & Wealth Solutions MarketingConfidential
• Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)Confidential
• News ProducerThe Statesman Group
• Assignment EditorThe Statesman Group
• Accounting ManagerThe Statesman Group
• News ReporterThe Statesman Group
• Digital Content ProducerThe Statesman Group
• Senior Software EngineerAlarm.com Holdings
• Staff Software EngineerAlarm.com Holdings
• Software EngineerAlarm.com Holdings

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Employers hiring most in Needham

1. SharkNinja54 open roles
2. Hearst5 open roles
3. Alera Group4 open roles
4. Confidential4 open roles
5. The Statesman Group4 open roles
6. Alarm.com Holdings3 open roles
7. King & Bishop2 open roles
8. Verastem Oncology2 open roles
9. Celldex Therapeutics1 open role
10. Fulgent Therapeutics1 open role

Largest employers headquartered in Needham

• TripAdvisorabout 3 employees (2025)

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Needham layoffs

No layoff notices naming Needham 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.

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Norfolk 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 2.1% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 2.2% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.9%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,795 jobs), admin & staffing (+2,228 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: information (−2,011 jobs), finance & insurance (−1,075 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Needham. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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Norfolk County economy

• 3.9%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.1% the month before

• 415,556

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 724,540

  people in Norfolk County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $126,497

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 59%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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