The US Layoffs Tracker is updated daily with the latest disclosures under the WARN Act, which requires employers with 100 or more workers to give 60 days notice before major layoffs or site closures. Though only a portion of the countless people fired, made redundant, pushed into resignation or otherwise removed from their jobs, it shows where and when things have gotten bad. Right now, things are bad.
Notices: 41,894
Workers affected: 5.3M
Companies: 25,314
Date range:1987 – 2026An open dataset of every US layoff disclosed under the federal WARN Act, pulled directly from state labor departments and normalized into one searchable, sortable view. Filings are sourced and monitored with kadoa.com and the code is open source on GitHub.
With big tech shedding payroll by the tens of thousands, smaller corporate downsizings are easily missed. For example, I’d missed that business software company Intuit just announced it was to can 493 workers. LinkedIn, Oracle, Atlassian… a few hundred here, a few hundred there.
Why a few states are missing
There is no national real-time WARN database. Every state publishes its own list, in its own format and on its own cadence. A few don’t make notices public at all: Arkansas keeps them confidential by law (A.C.A. §11-10-314), and Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Wyoming, and Hawaii publish no usable public list.
And this is a stark number:
Layoffs by Sector: Manufacturing: 453.7k
But we do make things in America! We make mistakes.
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