Arlington, TN jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Arlington

• Hybrid Indirect Procurement ManagerStryker
• Senior AccountantRandstad
• Assistant Principal - SecondaryMemphis-Shelby County Schools

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Employers hiring most in Arlington

1. Memphis-Shelby County Schools1 open role
2. Randstad1 open role
3. Stryker1 open role

Arlington layoffs

No layoff notices naming Arlington 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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Shelby County outlook: Cooling

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

• Private-sector jobs down 4.7% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 2.1% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.4%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+4,833 jobs), real estate (+367 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−11,946 jobs), manufacturing (−3,380 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Layoffs surge 341% in majority-Black county amid rising national Black unemploymentBlack Information Network on MSN · Oct 30, 2026
• Unemployment for black Americans rises as Shelby County layoffs surgeFOX13 Memphis · Oct 29, 2026
• NLRB Memphis Subregional Office Closure Shifts Labor Cases to Other OfficesUSA Herald · Oct 28, 2026
• SpaceX's AI push: Elon Musk-led company offers 20% pay rise if employees relocate to Memphis or Southaven. Details hereBusiness Today on MSN · Oct 21, 2026
• Memphis craft brewer Crosstown Brewing closingWREG.com · Oct 15, 2026
• A Memphis native’s self-taught AI course led to helping job seekers navigate the job search with MatchMentumEBONY on MSN · Oct 12, 2026

Learn and get funded in Arlington

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• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

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

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• Greater Memphis Workforce Development Board

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Shelby County economy

• 4.4%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.6% the month before

• 429,264

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 922,195

  people in Shelby County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $62,337

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 38%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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