ZeniMax Media's Maryland notice, dated Jul 3, 2025, covers 164 workers

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Zenimax Media, Inc. filed a WARN notice with Maryland for 164 workers, dated Jul 3, 2025. A WARN notice is a layoff notice that a US state requires of employers. The notice lists an address in Rockville, Maryland. It gives Sep 1, 2025 as the effective date, the day the layoffs start, and its type is Mass Layoff - No Recall. The state's list names only the company, not a division.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6^,7^,8

ZeniMax Media is a holding company under Microsoft Gaming. Its companies include Bethesda Softworks, which publishes Starfield and Fallout 76, id Software, which develops DOOM Eternal and DOOM: The Dark Ages, and ZeniMax Online Studios, which develops The Elder Scrolls Online.9^,10^,11^,12^,13^,14^,15^,16

A later Maryland notice from ZeniMax Media Inc. is dated Jul 6, 2026, covers 166 workers and gives Sep 4, 2026 as its effective date. A Maryland notice from ZeniMax Online Studios, also dated Jul 6, 2026, covers 213 workers.17^,18^,19^,20^,21^,22^,23^,24^,25

The 164 workers are the count for the notice as a whole. As we hold it, the record does not say that all of them work at that address, or where the others work. In the 12 months to the end of Oct 20, 2026, the WARN notices we hold for ZeniMax Media and the companies under it add up to 2 notices and 379 workers, so the 2025 notice falls outside that window. Our record of the notice holds the employer, state, location, county, type, workers, notice date and effective date. We hold no stated reason for the layoffs, and the record is the state's published row, not the employer's letter. Our record holds the notice date, Jul 3, 2025, and no separate date of receipt. Our records hold no other notice of ZeniMax Media or a company under it with that notice date. A notice matched to a company by name waits for review and counts nowhere until it is approved, so a count of notices is a count of those we hold, not of every notice filed. Our records hold no WARN notice matched to the names of ZeniMax Media or a company under it that is held back from view: every notice we match to them is counted. Our records list 6 companies under ZeniMax Media and track 9 of its games.3^,26^,27^,28^,4^,29^,30^,31^,32^,33^,34^,35