Research & Press
Workforce data, in the press.
Original analysis of how careers and the U.S. job market are changing, built on Live Data Technologies’ 95M+ professional profiles and cited by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and The Economist.
HumanCount
The 2,685 journalists who left the newsroom
A person-level study of journalist-to-brand career transitions, built on Live Data Technologies data and presented at Stacker’s CITED conference. Source: Live Data Technologies.
Read the piece →Bloomberg Businessweek
The Great Middle Management Purge Is Here
Middle-manager layoffs as a rising share of S&P 500 job cuts every year since 2020, and the data behind why CEOs are questioning the management layer.
Read the piece →Bloomberg Businessweek
How Anthropic Recruits to Build Claude
How Anthropic’s hiring brings unconventional, diverse career backgrounds in to build Claude. The Live Data Technologies chart also ran on a Bloomberg TV segment.
Read the piece →Bloomberg
AI Poised to Tilt Job Market Leverage Toward Older Workers
How the hiring market is ageing, and which workers gain leverage as AI reshapes early-career demand.
Read the piece →Mind the Product
How Is AI Restructuring Product Teams?
Workforce data across ~113k PMs plus 600+ practitioner responses on shrinking product teams and a compressing seniority pyramid.
Read the piece →Tech Funding News
How AI Is Reshaping Venture Capital Firms
VC firms that grew headcount fastest in 2021 to 2023 are contracting, while leaner teams largely held steady.
Read the piece →The Pragmatic Engineer
State of the Software Engineering Job Market 2026
Observed hiring data behind the most comprehensive breakdown of the engineering job market: intern intakes, seniority mix, and tenure across Big Tech and AI labs.
Read the piece →Bloomberg
Uber Expands NYC Office After RTO Mandate
Tracking the rise in New York’s share of Uber’s US workforce through the return-to-office period.
Read the piece →Business Insider
Inside OpenAI’s Talent Pipeline
Where OpenAI’s engineers come from and go next, across 1,200+ moves since 2023. Visualised by Monsicha Srisuantang.
Read the piece →Bloomberg
Jack Dorsey’s Block Job Cuts and AI-Washing
How companies overstate AI as the reason for layoffs, and what the workforce data actually shows.
Read the piece →The Economist
Bonfire of the Middle Managers
The data behind the disappearing middle layer of the corporate org chart across America.
Read the piece →Poets & Quants
Only 13% of MBAs Land at Top Employers
A first-of-its-kind analysis of 4,200+ MBA graduates showing how dispersed the post-MBA job market really is. With MBA Pathfinders.
Read the piece →The Pragmatic Engineer
State of the Software Engineering Job Market 2025
Why average tenure at Big Tech has risen sharply since 2023, and what the hiring slowdown means for engineers.
Read the piece →Adweek
Marketing and Advertising Internships Are on the Decline
The shrinking entry-level pipeline in marketing and advertising, by the numbers.
Read the piece →Business Insider
Finance Workers Are Trading Wall Street for AI Labs
The talent migration out of investment banking and quant trading into AI labs, mapped move by move.
Read the piece →The Wall Street Journal
The Biggest Companies in America Are Cutting Their Workforces
Front-page reporting on three years of falling headcount across corporate America, by job function and seniority.
Read the piece →Bloomberg
Why So Many CEOs Start at Consulting Firms
How many S&P 500 chief executives launched their careers at Accenture, PwC, and the other big consultancies.
Read the piece →Sobremesa(talent) · Madrid
The Quiet AI Work Reshuffle
A data-led talk for a sold-out room of HR and talent leaders on flatter org charts, promotions roughly 40% slower than three years ago, a 35% fall in HR headcount, and an entry-level hiring market in retreat, drawn from 95M+ workforce profiles.
See the recap →Startup Fair · Lithuania
Reading the startup market with data
A panel presenting the Dealroom.co startup and venture ecosystem report.
Watch →Datawrapper
Building research products with live data
A conference talk on turning live datasets into published, audience-facing research and visual storytelling.
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