LayoffNext

LayoffNext — Provenance-linked US WARN / mini-WARN layoff and closure filing panel: 8,544 filings across 44 states covering Apr 2023 to Oct 2026, compiled from 29 state agency sources plus 2 aggregators with each row credited to its source agency (Utah DWS, California EDD, Washington ESD, Virginia Works, Maryland DOL, FloridaJobs REACT, Illinois WorkNet IEBS, Ohio JFS and others). Rows carry employer name and address, city, county, industry classification, affected-worker count, filing date, effective date, and event type (Layoff vs Closure). Aggregates 724,072 affected workers and 2,405 full…

LayoffNext offers (Alternative, Sentiment, Reference) — 8,544 filing rows (Apr 2023 to Oct 2026) totalling 724,072 affected workers and 2,405 full closures, with 99% of filings disclosing a worker count. Row count is small but each row is a mandated employer disclosure resolved to county and industry. Materially, a further 2,349 filings are acknowledged as existing in state records but excluded from the public per-state table by export caps — so the true compiled universe is ~10,900 filings, of which only ~78% is exposed on the page..

Event-driven and short-side equity research (WARN notice precedes public restructuring announcements by roughly 60 days), credit and distressed-debt early warning, county-level labour-market and economic-development monitoring, commercial real-estate and local retail demand forecasting, staffing-demand modelling, mini-WARN compliance research, and — because of the per-row anomaly flags — use as a labelled quality/uncertainty test set for entity-resolution and date-extraction models trained on government filings.

The data is with 4 years of history.

Coverage spans US; Financial Exchanges & Data, Human Capital & Employment Services; alternative, sentiment, reference; equities, fixed_income.