Insights
Editorial guides and analysis on WARN filings, layoff data quality, AI hiring signals, and how the US labor market data pipeline actually works. Published weekly.
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AI Hiring and AI Layoffs in 2026: Two Separate Counts
· 874 words
JobShift's 2026 data: 28,180 AI hiring postings and 37 AI-attributed layoff announcements affecting 45,823 workers, tracked as separate measures, not one ratio.
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Uber's 2026 Layoffs and Eight Years of Prior Cuts
· 900 words
Uber's September 2026 cut of 3,000+ jobs is its largest since 2018. AI attribution appears in exactly one of Uber's six layoff waves since 2018.
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Seven States With AI Hiring but Almost No AI Layoffs in 2026
· 949 words
Seven states combine strong 2026 AI hiring with almost no AI-attributed layoffs, a pattern driven largely by defense-tech AI startups with no layoffs on record.
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The Long Tail of AI Layoffs in 2026: 19 Small or Undisclosed Clusters
· 1083 words
Three AI-attributed layoff clusters (Amazon, Meta, Microsoft) account for 54 percent of the disclosed worker impact recorded by JobShift in 2026 to date. Nineteen of the 31 total clusters affected fewer than 500 workers or had no worker count on file, spanning cybersecurity, SaaS, marketplaces, consumer finance and gambling, and consumer social firms.
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13 US Companies Are Both Hiring AI Talent and Laying It Off in 2026
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Thirteen US firms appear on both the 2026 AI hiring leaderboard and the AI-attributed layoff list. The overlap accounts for 13% of the year's AI hiring events and 42% of AI-attributed restructuring clusters.
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AI Layoffs by State: Complete 2026 Data
· 980 words
AI-attributed layoffs by US state for 2026: state-level rankings from the JobShift dataset, with published methodology and documented limitations.
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How JobShift Classifies AI Layoffs and Hiring
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The tier system, exclusions, and confidence gating JobShift uses to decide which layoffs and hiring events count as AI-driven, with documented limitations.
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How WARN Filings Work: A Guide to Reading Your State's Layoff Data
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JobShift's guide to WARN filings: what the federal act requires, what appears on the form, why every state publishes differently, and why WARN data alone captures only the tip of the layoff iceberg.