Downloads

File	Format	What’s in it
layoffs.csv	CSV (UTF-8)	One row per layoff (294 rows): company, industry, dates, count and qualifier, location, primary source.
events.json	JSON	The full records, including every source and correction.
companies.json	JSON	Every company, with links to its layoff records.
feed.xml · rss.xml	Atom · RSS	The 50 newest stories.

Reading the numbers

count.qualifier: One of exact, about, up_to, at_least, range, percentage or undisclosed. It is taken from the source’s wording, and count.sourcePhrase holds the exact words.
jobs_for_totals: A conservative number for adding up: ranges use the low end; percentage-only and undisclosed records are 0. Don’t add the raw counts.
dates: announced is when the layoff became public; warnNotice is the date on a WARN notice, if any; separations are when jobs end, if known.

Using the API

The API is a set of static JSON files, so there are no keys and no rate limits beyond fair use. Files are regenerated whenever we publish. Fields are only ever added, never renamed, within v1.

Credit

Please credit “Today’s Layoffs” and link to todayslayoffs.com. See our terms. Each record links to its original public sources.