CREDITS & LICENCES

Every number on this site comes from the sources below. Each one keeps its own licence; we changed the data (averaged, rebased, scored), and no licensor endorses this site. Dates are read from the files we downloaded. "Commercial clips" says whether a source is used in the commercial version of our videos.

Score: each lit tile gets a score from −1 (layoffs win) to +1 (hiring wins), measured against that country's own pre-pandemic normal. Full method: HOW WE COUNT. Grey land means no comparable data: we never fill gaps.

INDEED HIRING LAB

Indeed Hiring Lab, Job Postings Index (GitHub: hiring-lab/job_postings_tracker)

Licence: CC BY 4.0
Required notice: Source: Indeed Hiring Lab. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Changed by us: daily index averaged by month and turned into a score.
Data date: Indeed Hiring Lab, Job Postings Index: daily, 1 Feb 2020 to 2026-10-23; monthly averages used; retrieved 2026-10-29
How we count: Software development postings vs 1 Feb 2020 (=100) for US, UK, CA, AU, DE, FR; all-job postings for IE, ES, IT, NL. Monthly mean of the daily index; the current month is partial. City look-ups use Indeed's all-job metro series.
Commercial clips: YES Kept. Taken from Hiring Lab's own GitHub release, which is CC BY 4.0 ("freely available for public use, as long as Indeed Hiring Lab is cited"). Not taken from FRED: FRED marks the same series "Copyrighted: Pre-approval required" and bars resale.

US BLS JOLTS

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, JOLTS (Information sector, NAICS 51; state estimates)

Licence: US government work, public domain
Required notice: Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.
Data date: US BLS JOLTS: Information sector layoffs & discharges rate (SA): monthly, Jan 2019 to 2026-08 (latest months preliminary); retrieved 2026-10-28
US BLS JOLTS, Information sector (NAICS 51): job openings rate, layoffs & discharges rate and level (SA): monthly, DEC 2000 to AUG 2026; retrieved 2026-10-28
US BLS JOLTS state estimates, total nonfarm (all industries): job openings rate, layoffs & discharges rate (SA): monthly, DEC 2000 to DEC 2025; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Layoffs side for the US: Information-sector layoffs and discharges rate (seasonally adjusted) vs its pre-pandemic normal. The since-2000 view also uses the openings rate and the layoffs level (thousands) for the counter. Latest months are preliminary.
Commercial clips: YES Kept. US federal data is public domain; BLS asks for the credit line above.

ONS

Office for National Statistics: LFS redundancy rate (BEIR); Vacancy Survey, Information & communication (JP9P)

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Required notice: Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data date: UK ONS LFS redundancy rate (BEIR), all industries: rolling 3-month periods, latest is 3 months to 2026-07; retrieved 2026-10-28
ONS LFS: ILO redundancy rate, UK, all industries (BEIR, per 1,000 employees, SA): monthly (rolling 3 months), APR 1995 to JUL 2026; retrieved 2026-10-28
ONS Vacancy Survey: UK job vacancies, Information & communication (JP9P, 000s, rolling 3 months, SA): monthly, MAY 2001 to AUG 2026; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Layoffs side for the UK: redundancy rate per 1,000 employees, all industries (no tech-only official series exists), rolling 3 months. Since-2000 hiring side: ICT vacancies (000s).
Commercial clips: YES Kept. OGL v3.0 allows commercial use with the attribution above.

EUROSTAT

Eurostat: job vacancy statistics (jvs_q_r21, NACE section K) and LFS transitions (lfsi_long_q)

Licence: Eurostat reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; CC BY 4.0)
Required notice: Source: Eurostat. © European Union, 1995–2026. Modified by us (rebased and scored); Eurostat is not responsible for these changes.
Data date: Eurostat job vacancy statistics (jvs_q_r21): job vacancy rate, NACE Rev. 2.1 section K: quarterly, Q1 2019 to Q2 2026 (some countries end earlier); dataset updated 2026-09-15; retrieved 2026-10-28
Eurostat LFS labour market transitions (lfsi_long_q): employed to unemployed, % of employed, SA: quarterly, Q1 2019 to Q2 2026; dataset updated 2026-09-15; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Hiring side for 26 European countries: ICT job vacancy rate (quarterly). Layoffs side for 28: share of people in work last quarter who are unemployed this quarter (all industries, seasonally adjusted). Hiring is compared with the same quarter of 2019; layoffs with the country's pre-pandemic normal.
Commercial clips: YES Kept. Eurostat authorises commercial reuse with the source named, except data for countries outside the EU, EFTA and candidate countries. Every country we take from Eurostat is in those groups (EU members, CH, IS, NO, MK, TR).

MBIE NZ

NZ Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), Jobs Online: IT job ads index

Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Crown copyright)
Required notice: Source: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), Jobs Online. Crown copyright, licensed CC BY 4.0. Changed by us: rebased and scored.
Data date: NZ MBIE Jobs Online: IT industry job ads index (unadjusted): quarterly, to Q2 2026; retrieved 2026-10-28
NZ MBIE Jobs Online: IT job ads index (unadjusted): quarterly, Q4 2010 to Q2 2026; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Hiring side for New Zealand: online job ads in the IT industry, unadjusted, vs the same quarter of 2019.
Commercial clips: YES Kept. CC BY 4.0.

ABS

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Job Vacancies, Australia (6354.0), Information Media & Telecommunications

Licence: CC BY 4.0
Required notice: Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics. © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data date: ABS Job Vacancies, Australia (6354.0) Table 4: Information Media & Telecommunications, original, 000s: quarterly, Q4 2009 to Q3 2026; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Since-2000 view only: Australian hiring side. The survey was suspended Aug 2008 to Aug 2009, so the series restarts Nov 2009.
Commercial clips: YES Kept. CC BY 4.0.

E-STAT (JAPAN)

Statistics Bureau of Japan, Labour Force Survey, via the e-Stat API (table 0003006453)

Licence: Government of Japan Standard Terms of Use (compatible with CC BY 4.0)
Required notice: This service uses the API function of e-Stat, but the contents of the service are not guaranteed by the government.
Data date: Statistics Bureau of Japan, Labour Force Survey (detailed tabulation) via e-Stat API, table 0003006453: unemployed persons whose reason for job search is dismissal or business circumstances (published in 10,000s; shown in thousands), all industries: quarterly, Q1 2002 to Q2 2026; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Since-2000 view only, layoffs side for Japan: unemployed people whose reason for job search is dismissal.
Commercial clips: YES Kept where shown (Japan is off by default in clips).

NBER

NBER US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions

Licence: Public reference dates (facts)
Required notice: Recession dates: NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee.
Data date: NBER US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions: 2001, 2007 to 2009, 2020; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Era labels during playback of the since-2000 view.
Commercial clips: YES Kept. We use only the published start and end months.

NATURAL EARTH

Natural Earth 1:50m and 1:110m countries

Licence: Public domain
Required notice: Made with Natural Earth (no notice required).
Data date: Natural Earth 1:50m countries (pixel map) and 1:110m countries (tile view): static file; retrieved 2026-10-29
How we count: Country shapes for the pixel map and tiles.
Commercial clips: YES Kept. Public domain.

LAYOFFS.FYI

Layoffs.fyi tech layoffs tracker

Licence: Free for editorial, research and educational use, with attribution
Required notice: According to Layoffs.fyi, which tracks tech industry layoffs (layoffs.fyi).
Data date: Layoffs.fyi: quarterly from Q1 2020 to Q2 2026 (published chart, latest quarter partial); annual totals to date from the press page; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Worldwide tech layoffs counter only. It counts by company HQ, not by where the jobs were, so it never colours a country.
Commercial clips: NO, EDITORIAL ONLY Dropped from commercial clips: its terms cover editorial, research and educational use only; commercial use is not stated.

PUBLIC JOB BOARDS

Public job-board APIs: Greenhouse Job Board API, Lever Postings API, Ashby Job Postings API

Licence: Published for public reading; no data licence stated
Required notice: Counts from public job boards, for editorial use.
Data date: Public job-board APIs: Greenhouse Job Board API, Lever Postings API, Ashby public Job Postings API: snapshot 2026-10-28, 15,280 tech roles of 38,118 postings, 82 countries; daily snapshots stored from 2026-10-28; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Open roles counted once a day on each tracked company's public job board; tech roles sorted by job title. A snapshot, not comparable with the index score.
Commercial clips: NO, EDITORIAL ONLY Dropped from commercial clips: no licence covers selling these counts. Used for editorial look-ups only (/co/ pages, city and job look-ups, "has open roles" layer).

WARN NOTICES

California EDD WARN reports; Texas Workforce Commission WARN notices (Texas Open Data Portal)

Licence: EDD Conditions of Use (public information); Texas portal states no separate licence
Required notice: Source: California Employment Development Department; Texas Workforce Commission.
Data date: California EDD WARN reports: notices received 1 Jul 2019 to 2026-10-26 (fiscal-year PDFs + current xlsx); retrieved 2026-10-28
Texas Workforce Commission WARN notices (Texas Open Data Portal, 8w53-c4f6): 2019-01-04 to 2026-06-23; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: City look-ups: count of WARN layoff notices from tech employers in that city, by notice date.
Commercial clips: UNCLEAR, LEFT OUT Not in any clip. Commercial terms unclear (Texas states no licence), so left out of commercial products.

GEONAMES

GeoNames cities15000, admin codes, countryInfo

Licence: CC BY 4.0
Required notice: Place data: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
Data date: GeoNames cities15000, admin codes, countryInfo: static file; retrieved 2026-10-28
How we count: Offline geocoding of job and WARN locations to a country and city.
Commercial clips: YES Not in clips.

FONTS

Press Start 2P (CodeMan38): SIL Open Font License 1.1
VT323 (Peter Hull): SIL Open Font License 1.1