LayoffHedge

We built layoffhedge.com and $LAYOFF to keep tabs on every major layoff in 2026. To hold companies that are firing Americans while hiring foreign labor accountable. We truly believe we are seeing the largest shift in labor since the Industrial Revolution, and we want to be your trusted source to track the entire journey. The good. The bad. The data. The numbers right now: 415,000+ people have lost their jobs in 2026 147+ companies 3,100+ jobs cut per day Every sector. Tech, finance, healthcare, retail, auto, media, telecom, manufacturing. Nobody is safe. We didn't set out to build a movement. But it turns out when you document what's actually happening to working people in this country, people pay attention. 41,000 of you followed in 10 weeks. 35 million+ impressions. Because this isn't a niche story. This is your coworker. Your neighbor. Your friend who just posted on LinkedIn about "new beginnings" after 12 years at the same company. CEOs are announcing thousands of cuts on earnings calls and the stock goes up the same day. They call it restructuring. They call it efficiency. Then they file for thousands of H-1B visas and ship the work overseas. We don't just track layoffs. We investigate them. We built an H-1B research tool with nearly 7 million DOL filings so you can see exactly which companies are cutting Americans and replacing them with cheaper foreign labor. We cross-reference the layoff data with visa applications, expose offshoring patterns, and publish the receipts. Our visa fraud investigation series has documented how the system is being exploited at scale. We name the companies. We show the filings. We let the data speak. We track it all at layoffhedge.com. Every company page has editorial context, source links, workforce percentages, and attribution tags. We categorize why the cuts happened: AI-driven, restructuring, cost cuts, mergers, weak demand. Updated live, in real time, completely free. $LAYOFF is the token behind the movement. It exists because this story isn't going away. Every week brings another round of cuts, another CEO proving that Wall Street rewards replacing people. The narrative is the economy itself. This is not a crypto movement. This is a people movement that happens to have a token.

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I GOT COMPLACENT AT MY JOB That’s an Indian H-1B worker in tech who turned a temporary visa into 11 years of work. That job let him to afford two homes back in India, and now he’s timing his 401k withdraw to return. The job was his stop on the way to an Indian retirement.

Devereux is a nonprofit caring for children with autism and disabilities. Since 2020 it filed 1,692 H-1B applications at a ~$35,000 median wage. The lowest-paid H-1B jobs in America are caregiving and teaching. Many of these are cap exempt. What exactly is going on here?

LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR, YOUR STATE FARM (AI) AGENT IS THERE State Farm just dropped a BOMB on 19,000 of its agents. The new contract is called "Next Gen Good Neighbor." It makes AI tools mandatory across the agent network. It also cuts veteran agent income by as much as 40%, with both health coverage and the deferred compensation agents treated as retirement stripped out. State Farm says the AI frees agents to spend more time selling. The agents see a tool that absorbs the work they used to get paid for. The damage doesn't stop with them. These are 19,000 independent offices, and many of them employ their own staff. To survive a 40% cut, agents say they will have to let those employees go. Some are weighing whether to refinance their homes or give up their office leases. One called it "a real slap in the face." After enough backlash, State Farm walked back part of the retirement cut and will extend some of those benefits for three more years. The catch: the payout is now tied to hitting sales targets. Then there is the timing. In May, Progressive passed State Farm to become the largest auto insurer in America, ending an 84-year run that began in 1942. State Farm lost the crown. Its salesforce is funding the comeback. None of this will surface in a layoff report. No WARN notice. No headcount headline. Just thousands of small offices quietly cutting staff to absorb a contract they never asked for.

Asensus Surgical, which makes a surgical robot, just cut more than half its own staff, 108 of about 209 people. Turns out the robot company wasn't safe either.

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MONTHS BEFORE META LAYOFFS, 6 EXECS GOT BONUS OPTIONS WORTH BETWEEN 600-900 MILLION With as much negative press as they are getting, we still have to start by pointing out the money they are making. In Q1 2026 it booked $56.3 billion in revenue, up 33% from a year before. Profit was $26.8 billion. Then it laid off 8,000 people, about 10% of staff, starting May 20. Zuckerberg's own reason for the cuts: they help pay for Meta's AI buildout, where spending is running up to $145 billion this year, about double last year's $72 billion. Now look at who is getting paid on the other side of that buildout. Six executives got the first stock options Meta has issued since its 2012 IPO. Zuckerberg took none for himself. Each of the six got the same base grant: 653,865 options worth up to $625.6 million apiece if the top target is hit. Four of them also got restricted stock on top. What each one stands to make at the ceiling: - Andrew Bosworth, CTO: up to $921 million - Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer: up to $921 million - Javier Olivan, COO: up to $921 million - Susan Li, CFO: up to $787 million - Curtis Mahoney, Chief Legal Officer: up to $625.6 million - Dina Powell McCormick, President: up to $625.6 million Here is what has to happen for them to collect in full. Meta's stock has to reach $3,727 a share. It trades near $568 today. That would make Meta a $9 trillion company, about six times its value now, and worth more than any company in history. They have until March 2031. So the trade is plain. Eight thousand people are gone now, for certain, from a company that just cleared $26 billion in a single quarter. The six executives collect their fortune only if they turn Meta into the most valuable company that has ever existed.

EVONIK IS CUTTING 3,200 JOBS WORLDWIDE They are one of the world's largest specialty chemicals makers, a 33,000-person German group. They are now squeezed by a deep chemicals slump and high European energy costs. They join VW as German companies announcing huge layoffs.

“It’s literally a gulag” and “Most people find the work soul crushing.” Thats the comments of the ~6,500 software engineers who didn’t apply to be part of the “Applied AI” unit, not ours. Synthetic data hit a wall on complex coding tasks, so Meta is feeding its own engineers into the pipeline as the human intelligence layer machines still can’t replace. Zuckerberg admitted in a June 12 memo the company “made mistakes.” Engineers at Meta are becoming raw material for the systems built to replace them.

DID YOU KNOW FOREIGN VISA WORKERS ARE BUILDING AMERICA'S NEWEST MARINE BASE? Guam is a US territory of about 150,000 people. The Pentagon is moving 5,000 Marines there from Okinawa, into Camp Blaz, the first new Marine Corps base in roughly 70 years. The island cannot staff a project that size, so it runs on foreign work visas. The H-1B data shows it plainly. Core Tech International, the top filer, sponsored 632 visas, most of them engineering roles. Black Construction and NAN Inc run the same pattern. Construction firms dominate the entire list, and not one tech company appears. The lone outlier is Guam Healthcare Development, a hospital importing doctors at a median wage of $194,287. The manual labor used to come in on H-2B, the temporary-worker visa. Around 2015, USCIS started denying nearly 100% of Guam's H-2B petitions, and the workforce collapsed right as the buildup began. Congress had to waive the cap for Guam military construction, a fix now extended through 2029. So two separate visa programs prop up one island's economy. A place of 150,000 people cannot build a base for thousands of Marines on its own, so the people who can come from abroad. I wonder if there are any American's that would have been willing to travel to Guam for these jobs?

BEZOS ON THE PEOPLE WORRIED AI WILL TAKE THEIR JOBS.. YOU ARE WRONG His theory: productivity gets so good that one earner in a two-income household "will decide not to be in the job market." Uh. Are you sure it's not because you are putting billions in AI automation companies?

Software developer is the #1 H-1B job. It isn't close. 2.2 million filings, more than triple the next job. Six of the ten most-requested H-1B roles are computer jobs. The same field where recent American grads now sit near the top of the unemployment list. Coincidence?

How are you going to call your employees “Robinhoodies” then proceed to lay 10% of them off…

LAYOFF ALERT: Hy-Tek Intralogistics They call themselves the future of logistics. They build the robots that replace warehouse workers. Now they are laying off 200 of their own. No sector is safe.

BREAKING LAYOFF ALERT: RIVIAN Just cut hundreds of jobs. The EV maker is chasing profitability as it launches its mass-market R2 SUV. Demand cooled after the $7,500 federal tax credit expired. I mean, does anyone really think they will compete with Tesla long term? $RIVN

LAYOFF ALERT: ARTLIST 🚨 Israeli Unicorn. Joins the handful of other Israeli Tech companies doing giant layoffs over the past 30 days. 200 cut. 40% of the company. YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHY! "Restructuring around an AI-native operating model despite rapid growth."

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ROBINHOOD LAYING OFF 10% OF STAFF CEO Vlad Tenev's reason? The business "has never been stronger." No mention of AI specifically, but he does say they will be "utilizing frontier technologies to push our execution even further."

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