Reading, MA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Technical Program Manager - Silicon Photonics (Teradyne, North Reading, MA)Teradyne
- Director of Education - Early Childhood Learning CenterThe Goddard School of Reading, MA
- Senior Perception Software Engineer (Teradyne, North Reading)Teradyne
- Quality Assurance EngineerApex Systems
- Software Engineer (Compute Test, North Reading)Teradyne
- Sales & Service Manager, AVP - ReadingNorthern Bank
- HVAC Project CoordinatorCooling Unlimited
- HVAC Administrative AssistantCooling Unlimited
- Member Of Technical Staff - Hardware Science, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)Amazon
- Principal UX DesignerTherobotage
Employers hiring most in Reading
- Cooling Unlimited3 open roles
- Teradyne3 open roles
- Amazon1 open role
- Apex Systems1 open role
- Arthur J. Gallagher1 open role
- Gallagher1 open role
- Gallagher Bassett1 open role
- Northern Bank1 open role
- The Goddard School of Reading, MA1 open role
- Therobotage1 open role
Reading layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Reading in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Reading. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- MassHire Greater Lowell Workforce Board
Towns: Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford
- 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 North Regional Employment Board
Towns: Arlington, Belmont, Burlington, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, North Reading, Reading, Revere, Somerville, Stoneham, Wakefield, Watertown, Wilmington, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn
- 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
Middlesex County economy
4.0%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.3% the month before
937,295
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
1,622,896
people in Middlesex County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$126,779
median household income
Source: Census ACS
61%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN 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.