
How we got this
How often information lets people go
1.68%1,812 days
A month, as a share of everyone employed. The average wait for one person is 1,812 days (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). Source
AI already does this much of your job
9%1.51× sooner
Microsoft scores chief executives 0.16 out of 1 for how much of the job people already hand to AI, and Anthropic sees Claude doing 3% of its tasks. The most exposed job we score is 55%. Source
Openings for your kind of job
+5%1.05× later
US job postings in Management are at 105, where February 2020 was 100 (Indeed Hiring Lab, November 2026). Source
Your employer
-1.5% a year1.15× sooner
Microsoft's headcount is down 1.5% on a year ago (LinkedIn). Source
Layoffs at Microsoft
3 rounds2.40× sooner
Microsoft offered buyouts for 27% of staff 20 days ago, its 3rd round in a year (Microsoft offers 60,000 employees voluntary buyouts | AP News). Source
Middle management
1 in 5 firms1.20× sooner
Gartner predicted that through 2026 one in five organisations would use AI to flatten their structure and remove more than half of their middle managers. Source
Time with this employer
1.4 years1.30× sooner
Of 7.4 million people displaced from a job in 2023 to 2025, 4.1 million had held it under three years (US Bureau of Labor Statistics), and 65% of HR teams say they cut the newest first (BambooHR). Source
Multiplied together, then stretched so the extremes are extremes. The whole method.