WARN Feed · layoffs by industry

US technology and software layoffs — the actual WARN Act filings, rebuilt every day

1,747 technology and software layoff and closing notices filed with state labour agencies under the WARN Act, from 1989 to 2026, covering 192,780 reported workers at 369 employers in 39 states. Free, CC BY 4.0, rebuilt every morning from the agency portals — no login, no key, no email.

Download every sector-tagged notice (CSV) This industry as its own dataset on Hugging Face

Who is in this cut

Included: software and internet companies, hardware and semiconductor makers, electronics manufacturers, IT services and data-centre operators.

What counts as tech here: the employer name reads as a software, internet, hardware, semiconductor, electronics or IT-services company. Biotech and pharma are deliberately NOT here (they sit under pharma_biotech), and neither are telecoms carriers (media_telecom). The sector_rule column shows which pattern fired on every row, so you can audit or re-cut it yourself.

Why this file exists

Tech layoff trackers are built from press coverage and company blog posts, which means they see the famous cuts and miss the rest. These are the legal filings: employer, site, workers affected, notice date, effective date, notice type — including the layoffs nobody wrote about.

The employers with the most technology and software notices on record

Counted per notice, not per event: a company that files in four states files four notices. Employer names are the resolved spelling — the raw agency spelling is kept in the download.

The 15 most recent technology and software notices

Date is the notice date where the agency publishes one, otherwise the layoff date. 193 of the 1,747 notices in this cut are recorded as a closure rather than a layoff.

How the industry is decided: no state WARN portal publishes an industry field, so there is no NAICS column to filter on. The sector here is assigned from the resolved employer name by a published rule table (19 sectors, 3,152 patterns, first match wins), and every row carries the pattern that fired in its sector_rule column so you can audit or re-cut it. The archive holds 61,428 notices; 61,232 of them carry a usable date and are in the sector file (196 have no date in either column), 32,168 come out with a sector, and 29,064 stay unclassified — and are still counted in every total shown anywhere on this site. Manual audit 2026-09-12: 4 of 60 sampled rows were assigned to the wrong sector. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.

How to check any of this

Every number on this page is computed at build time from notices_by_sector.csv (one row per notice, with the sector and the rule that assigned it), and the yearly series from sector_by_year.csv. The free HTTP API serves the whole archive as JSON, NDJSON and per-state CSV with no key. This industry is also published as its own Hugging Face dataset, and the full sector cut as one file. If a number here disagrees with the file, the file is right and it is a bug — tell us and it is fixed the next morning.

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