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Why the talent crisis in advertising is real and what comes next

Bradley Keefer, Chief Revenue Officer, Keen Decision Systems The advertising industry has a talent problem it desperately needs to confront: AI is eliminating the work that used to develop future leaders, and most agencies aren’t building a replacement pipeline. No one wants to discuss entry-level jobs, but those jobs are how people obtain three years […]

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Most layoff notices are small: what 6,644 US WARN notices show about who files and how big

Layoff headlines are about the big ones. The public WARN notice lists tell a different story. I combined 6,644 notices from 25 state labor agencies (Oct 2024 to Oct 2026) and counted.

  • Most layoff notices in the US are small, with median naming 43 workers
  • Half of notices involve 50 or fewer workers, 0.5% name 1,000+
  • Largest notices include Tend Exchange (16,132 workers) and Gebbers Farms (3,465 workers)

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