Dataset: Layoffs Dataset

About this Dataset

Layoffs Dataset

Context

Tech firms around the globe are fighting the economic slowdown. The slow consumer spending, higher interest rates by central banks and strong dollars overseas are hinting towards possible recession and tech firms have started laying employees off. This economic slowdown has made Meta recently fire 13% of its workforce, which amounts to more than 11,000 employees. This dataset was made with the hope to enable Kaggle community to look into analyzing recent tech turmoil and discover useful insights.

Content

Tracking the tech layoffs reported on the following platforms:

Bloomberg
San Francisco Business Times
TechCrunch
The New York Times

The data availability is from when COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic i.e. 11 March 2020 to present (21 Apr 2025).
Some data such as the sources, list of employees laid off and date of addition has been omitted here and the complete data can be found on Layoffs.fyi.
Credits: Roger Lee

Tables

Layoffs

@kaggle.swaptr_layoffs_2022.layoffs

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4078 rows
11 columns


CREATE TABLE layoffs (
  "company" VARCHAR,
  "location" VARCHAR,
  "total_laid_off" DOUBLE,
  "date" TIMESTAMP,
  "percentage_laid_off" VARCHAR,
  "industry" VARCHAR,
  "source" VARCHAR,
  "stage" VARCHAR,
  "funds_raised" VARCHAR,
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "date_added" TIMESTAMP
);