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Worcester, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

140 open professional jobs in Worcester. Worcester is in Worcester County.

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Jobs in Worcester

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Employers hiring most in Worcester

  1. AbbVie10 open roles
  2. Tenet Healthcare7 open roles
  3. Elgen Staffing5 open roles
  4. Hanover Insurance Group5 open roles
  5. Amazon4 open roles
  6. Albertsons Companies3 open roles
  7. Charter Communications3 open roles
  8. College of the Holy Cross3 open roles
  9. David Clark Company3 open roles
  10. Safeway3 open roles

Worcester layoffs

No layoff notices naming Worcester 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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Colleges in Worcester

Colleges in Worcester
CollegeTypeStudents
Worcester Polytechnic InstitutePrivate non-profit 4-year5,000–9,999
Worcester State UniversityPublic 4-year5,000–9,999
Assumption UniversityPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
Clark UniversityPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
College of the Holy CrossPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolPublic 4-year1,000–4,999

Where Worcester ranks

Where Worcester placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

Worcester County outlook: Building

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

  • Private-sector jobs up 0.9% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 3.7% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 4.2%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,234 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+2,771 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,458 jobs), management of companies (−1,143 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Worcester. Each link goes to the publisher.

Learn and get funded in Worcester

Workforce development and job centers

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

Laid off in Massachusetts? How to file for unemployment in Massachusetts (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

  • MassHire Central Region Workforce Board

    Towns: Auburn, Blackstone, Boylston, Brookfield, Charlton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Grafton, Hardwick, Holden, Hopedale, Leicester, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Northborough, Northbridge, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Rutland, Shrewsbury, Southbridge, Spencer, Sturbridge, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, Warren, Webster, West Boylston, West Brookfield, Westborough, Worcester

  • MassHire Franklin Hampshire Workforce Board

    Towns: Amherst, Ashfield, Athol, Belchertown, Bernardston, Buckland, Charlemont, Chesterfield, Colrain, Conway, Cummington, Deerfield, Easthampton, Erving, Gill, Goshen, Granby, Greenfield, Hadley, Hatfield, Hawley, Heath, Huntington, Leverett, Leyden, Middlefield, Monroe, Montague, New Salem, Northampton, Northfield, Orange, Pelham, Petersham, Phillipston, Plainfield, Rowe, Royalston, Shelburne, Shutesbury, South Hadley, Southampton, Sunderland, Ware, Warwick, Wendell, Westhampton, Whately, Williamsburg, Worthington

  • MassHire North Central Workforce Board

    Towns: Ashburnham, Ashby, Ayer, Barre, Berlin, Bolton, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Groton, Harvard, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leominster, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Princeton, Shirley, Sterling, Templeton, Townsend, Westminster, Winchendon

  • Metro South/West Workforce Board, Inc.

    Towns: Acton, Ashland, Bedford, Bellingham, Boxborough, Brookline, Canton, Carlisle, Concord, Dedham, Dover, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Marlborough, Maynard, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville, Sharon, Sherborn, Southborough, Stow, Sudbury, Walpole, Waltham, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, Wrentham

  • MassHire Central - Worcester Career Center

    Worcester · Comprehensive · 508-799-1600

    Mon-Thurs 8:45am - 4:30pm; Fri. 9:45 am - 4:30 pm

Worcester County economy

  • 4.2%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    4.5% the month before

  • 470,233

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 861,664

    people in Worcester County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $93,561

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 46%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: Layoff notices from Massachusetts’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. Massachusetts unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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