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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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.