Layoffs.fyi
Know your market context — you're not alone in it.
- Pricing
- free
- Best for
- layoff tracker, market data
- Category
- Wellbeing & finances
Layoffs.fyi is a running tracker of tech layoffs, maintained since 2020: which companies cut, how many people, and when. It's a spreadsheet at heart, and it does something no career tool does. It shows you, in plain numbers, that what happened to you happened to a market's worth of people at the same time.
What it does
- A continuously updated list of tech layoffs with company, headcount, and date
- Totals and trends, so you can see whether cuts are accelerating or easing
- Links to source reporting for each event
- Lists of affected employees that some companies share for recruiters
The practical use is context. When a recruiter asks why you're looking, the data is on your side: your company appears in a long public list, and everyone hiring knows it.
Pricing
Free.
Who it's for
- Anyone freshly laid off and stuck in the 'why me' loop
- Job seekers gauging market conditions before setting search expectations
- People researching whether a target company has been cutting recently
One caution: don't refresh it daily. Get the context once, let it reframe the story from personal verdict to market event, and then get back to your search.
How it fits an Offboard search
Offboard was built for exactly the people in this dataset, and the reframe matters practically: a market event calls for a plan, not self-blame. That starts with knowing your runway, which is where YNAB or Offboard's built-in runway planning comes in, and with claiming what you're owed through CareerOneStop.
