ZeniMax Media filed a notice for 166 layoffs in Rockville, Maryland, without naming a division

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ZeniMax Media Inc. gave Maryland a WARN notice dated Jul 6 for 166 layoffs at a site in Rockville, with Sep 4 as the effective date. A WARN notice is the advance warning of a mass layoff or plant closing that US law requires employers to give workers and the state.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6

The notice puts the site at 1370 Piccard Drive, in Montgomery County, lists a mass layoff with no recall and does not name a division. It is one of 2 WARN notices for ZeniMax Media and the companies under it in the 12 months to the end of Oct 20, 2026, which cover 379 workers together; the other is a Maryland notice from ZeniMax Online Studios for 213 workers with the same notice date.5^,7^,8^,9^,10^,11^,12

ZeniMax Media is a holding company under Microsoft Gaming, and Microsoft owns it. Among the companies under it are Arkane Studios, Bethesda Softworks, id Software and ZeniMax Online Studios. Arkane Studios, id Software and ZeniMax Online Studios are developers, and Bethesda Softworks is a publisher. Because the notice names no division, it does not say which of them, if any, is affected.13^,14^,15^,16^,17^,18^,19^,20^,9

The WARN totals cover only the states whose notices we collect, and the list of companies under ZeniMax Media may not be complete. Open-role counts and game titles for these companies are not in the data behind this article, so the notice cannot be set against hiring or tied to a title.10^,16