Official Layoff

We built layoffhedge.com and $LAYOFF to keep tabs on every major layoff in 2026. 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: 334,000+ people have lost their jobs in 2026 108+ companies 3,300+ jobs cut per day Every sector. Tech, finance, healthcare, retail, auto, media. 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. 27,000 of you followed in 6 weeks. Nearly 20 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 are hiring foreigners for American jobs. They are replacing and automating your roles with AI. It is accelerating at a pace we can barely keep up with. The layoffs are the product. 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.

@blknoiz06 Layoffs everywhere

so what're we buying bros

@RonDeSantis America thanks you. x.com/layoffai/statu…

End it, don’t mend it.

@aakashgupta Thanks for citing us! layoffhedge.com

The Daily Wire is the case study of why personality-driven media companies can't compound. Peak in late 2023: Shapiro's YouTube alone pulled 170M monthly views. Daily Wire+ subscriptions, a Nashville studio operation, Bentkey kids streaming, an e-commerce arm with razors and chocolates and cigars. The company was running a billion-dollar conservative Disney bet. Then they made the studio bet bigger. Pendragon Cycle, an Arthurian fantasy series of the kind that has bankrupted larger production houses. Bentkey trying to compete with Disney for kids' attention. Daily Wire+ chasing Netflix. Running a newsroom, a film studio, a children's streaming platform, and a private-label consumer goods business simultaneously requires either limitless capital or extraordinary discipline. Some of it worked. Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" was the top-grossing documentary of 2024. Most of it didn't. In March 2024, they parted ways with Candace Owens. She walked into the open market and built a show that competes with theirs. Today she has 5.5M YouTube subscribers and added 10.9M followers across platforms since January 2025, generating roughly 805M views in that window. Daily Wire converted its biggest distribution asset into its largest competitor. Early 2025, co-founder Jeremy Boreing stepped down as co-CEO and launched a solo podcast outside the company he co-founded. Bentkey was shuttered the same year. Entire team cut. Then the audience math hit Shapiro himself. 170M monthly YouTube views in late 2023 to roughly 22M in early 2026. An 85% collapse in 18 months. Another 60K subscribers gone in the last 90 days alone. Layoffhedge.com estimates cumulative workforce reduction above 60% over the past year. Tucker Carlson left Fox in 2023, kept his audience, runs his shop with a fraction of the headcount. Megyn Kelly's network drew 138M YouTube views in February alone. The personalities figured out they don't need the platform. The platform discovered the opposite. Daily Wire built a billion-dollar valuation on names that can walk, take the audience with them, and run a competing show from a laptop the next morning. 170M views to 22M. The company kept the overhead. The audience left with the people.

@RealCandaceO Thanks to you and @aakashgupta for citing us. Track this and every 2026 layoff, live in real time at layoffhedge.com

Very good read — I would only add that the Daily Wire also suffered in the end from a Ben Shapiro problem. Any plan to save the company would have had to include him stepping away as the public face of it. That’s just the reality. His brand has become toxic to growth.

@ryancohen You highlight cost reductions. Would you be able to commit to no layoffs of eBay’s current staff if acquired? x.com/layoffai/statu…

Proposal to acquire eBay. investor.gamestop.com/ebay

@AAGDhillon Thank you to @InsiderWire for issuing a clarification. We look forward to hearing more in the coming weeks from @AAGDhillon about the middlemen companies like Cognizant! x.com/InsiderWire/st…

We wish this was true. The DOJ is suing Cloudera, not Cognizant. Maybe @AAGDhillon can shed light on when some of the predominantly Indian owned and staffed middlemen body shops will be investigated further?

@RonDeSantis You are quote tweeting false information, Governor x.com/LayoffAI/statu…

Boom!

@unusual_whales Deep cuts incoming x.com/layoffai/statu…

BREAKING: GameStop, $GME, is offering to buy eBay, $EBAY, for $125 a share, per WSJ

@DeItaone Layoffs incoming x.com/LayoffAI/statu…

*GAMESTOP OFFERING TO BUY EBAY FOR $125 A SHARE: WSJ

GAMESTOP OFFERING TO BUY EBAY FOR $125 A SHARE (per WSJ) Cohen took GameStop from 14,000 employees in 2020 to 4,000 in 2026. Expect DEEP cuts at eBay if this goes through.

@AAGDhillon Thank you! Can you please clarify on this as well? x.com/LayoffAI/statu…

Last week, but yeah.

@InsiderWire @AAGDhillon This post? It specifically references Cloudera as the $5B company. I remain optimistic Cognizant is in her crosshairs, but I do not believe the DOJ has filed a new lawsuit at this time.

@AAGDhillon Worth noting, the Insider Wire post also undercuts Cognizant's market cap by 5x (5B stated versus 25B actual). They're a behemoth. They come in at #3 on the number of LCAs filed for H-1B workers since 2015 (147k filings).

Read more about the Middlemen body shops like Cognizant, and how big tech uses them to undercut American workers without reporting it, in our article here x.com/layoffai/statu…

@InsiderWire Unfortunately this is not true. x.com/layoffai/statu…

FACT CHECK ALERT 🚨 The administration just released data on 189,000 jobless claims being the lowest since 1969. How is this possible when it seems we are seeing record layoffs and it's impossible to find a job? Because it is misleading. We dig into the reality below.

@SpeakSamuel Why has he been here for 20 years when H-1B is built to be a temporary visa? x.com/layoffai/statu…

This H-1B worker has lived in the US for nearly 20 years and built a family here. His mom was dying in India. To visit her, he would need to wait months to book a consular appointment--with the soonest one available likely being scheduled one year out. He made the difficult choice of not visiting his dying mom because leaving without an appointment would mean separation from his children, job, and his other obligations. Much of the commentary around immigration focuses on how such bureaucratic burdens undermine immigrants’ ability to contribute and innovate. But we must remember that this red tape also prevents these people from being fully engaged with their own lives and meaningfully present in the lives of others. This matters too, and these seemingly non-economic problems will eventually translate into economic costs. If America is no longer a place where people feel empowered to be the best versions of themselves as they celebrate, struggle, and grieve, it ceases not just being the land of opportunity, but also the land of dignity and purpose. linkedin.com/posts/gautam-d…

AMERICANS WANT OUR JOBS BACK

@himgajria You assume we will have a choice?

When AI becomes conscious, will you still be the user?