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r/Layoffs

180.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 42.6K upvotes, which works out to 236 per 1,000 members.

236peak upvotes per 1,000 members
180.7Kmembers
42.6Kbest post
3.7Kmost comments
197posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

46% 31% 13% 9%
Text 46% Link 31% Image 13% Question 9% Gallery 1% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

news 40 recently laid off 23 job hunting 11 advice 7 question 3 previously laid off 3 about to be laid off 3 unemployment 3 meme 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I made $140k last year and now I work at Walmart for $15.50/hr

↑ 42.6K πŸ’¬ 3.7K text 2024

8 days ago the President laid off all members of a critical aviation security advisory group, froze hiring of air traffic controllers.

↑ 21.6K πŸ’¬ 59 link 2025

Elon layoffs Ramaswamy from DOGE after Ramaswamy criticizes tech companies abusing H1Bs

↑ 9.2K πŸ’¬ 54 link 2025

The US software industry is at great risk, and the government must implement penalties for offshoring ASAP

↑ 8.9K πŸ’¬ 1.2K text 2025

"But Twitter is better than ever after layoffs!" 84% collapse in revenue leaving Musk admitting X could face bankruptcy

↑ 6.4K πŸ’¬ 551 link 2024

The biggest threat to US tech jobs isn't AI. It's 5.4M Indian engineers willing to work twice the hours

↑ 6.1K πŸ’¬ 39 link 2025

Tech bros are hiring HOneBee engineers at 70k/year.

↑ 5.6K πŸ’¬ 349 image 2024

Laid off today. Only US-based employees were let go

↑ 5.5K πŸ’¬ 573 text 2025

My heart rate as I was being laid off yesterday

↑ 4.2K πŸ’¬ 207 image 2025

Trump moves to cancel recent union agreements with federal workers

↑ 4.2K πŸ’¬ 209 link 2025

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Layoffs, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.