Mass layoffs soared this year in Alabama, impacting thousands of workers and inching toward the number of large-scale job losses the state saw during the first year of the pandemic, as cuts hit hardest in manufacturing.

Roughly two dozen companies accounted for the loss of more than 4,000 jobs across Alabama in 2023, according to WARN notices filed with the state.

And half of those employers also permanently closed their facilities or left Alabama altogether.