A live employment dashboard tracks companies announcing layoffs and adding jobs, with entries linked to their sources. It can be searched by company, job title, or skill, and filtered by region and sector. The displayed totals show 6,942 people laid off and 76,044 new jobs over the past seven days; the feed also lists 270 layoff entries and 3,462 hiring entries. Regional coverage includes the United States, India, Europe, the UK, Asia-Pacific, and other parts of the world, while sector filters include technology, media and entertainment, software, and health and pharmaceuticals.
The current examples illustrate that job cuts and recruitment are happening at the same time across industries. Recent reported reductions include 850 jobs at Qantas, 1,000 at PepsiCo, 2,500 at Boeing, and 1,000 at KLM; the dashboard identifies manufacturing as the most affected sector, with 2,500 layoffs. On the hiring side, Walmart leads with 3,301 new jobs this week and 20,432 openings listed, followed by Circle K with 1,898 new jobs and JLL with 1,107. Other prominent recruiters include Fresenius Medical Care, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Citi. The site also provides information about its data sources and methodology.
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