AskTheRecruiter · AI Layoff Tracker

Data Sources

Every number in the tracker traces back to one of the sources below — an official government filing, a legally required layoff notice, an EU restructuring record, or a named news report. Nothing is estimated or modeled into existence. Each row links to the raw source so you can check it yourself.

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Every source at a glance

Verified = a filing or named report is behind it (the headline number). Announced = a company plan reported at announcement stage, kept in a separate tier and never mixed into the verified total.

US state WARN registries (48 states)

The federal WARN Act requires large employers to file advance notice of mass layoffs with their state’s dislocated-worker unit. We import those official notices daily from every state that publishes usable per-notice data. Each link is the state’s own official WARN page — the exact source our importer reads.

Each state publishes on its own schedule (some rolling daily, some weekly, some quarterly); we re-import every state daily at 11am ET, so a state’s newest posted notices appear here within a day. Where a state offers a per-notice page, each entry links straight to it; otherwise the link goes to the state’s official WARN list or data file.

States not yet in the automated WARN feed — and why

All 50 states already appear in the tracker through SEC filings and news. The gap is only in state WARN notices. Each state below links to where it publishes (or an explanation of why it doesn’t), in plain terms:

“Publishes, importer in progress” states post public data we’re actively building importers for. “No public register” / “Confidential by law” states keep WARN filings internal, so those cuts reach the tracker through SEC filings and named news instead, never invented and never estimated. The unemployment column is a separate official metric (the state’s monthly BLS rate, not a layoff count) shown so every state carries an authoritative, sourced number even where individual notices aren’t public.

Worldwide news — every country & outlet we scan (202 countries, 527 outlets)

Beyond official filings, we monitor a curated allowlist of reputable news outlets in every country, in 65+ languages, twice daily via GDELT and NewsAPI — never the open web. The full list is below, generated straight from the collector’s own configuration, so it updates automatically whenever a source is added. Each country also shows which official register (if any) we pull directly.

How verification works

Live collector status is on the tracker health page; the running corrections log is on the tracker itself.

How we classify an “AI-attributed” layoff (the rubric)

Because this is the number most likely to be quoted, here is the exact, testable standard behind it. We report what the employer said, not our own judgment of cause — we never assert in our own voice that AI caused a layoff.

Two honest caveats: (1) “restructuring around AI” is sometimes PR cover for ordinary cost-cutting — the broad tier records the framing, it does not verify the cause. (2) Companies rarely say “replaced by AI” outright, so the strict measure is deliberately conservative; the broad measure exists precisely to show the wider, looser universe alongside it. The two are always reported separately and never summed.

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