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Jobs and employment news API

Hiring, layoffs, wages, unions and labour markets. Pass topic=WB_2670_JOBS to filter.

1.8karticles
1034outlets
2per outlet

What does the jobs and employment topic actually cover?

Workforce changes, industrial relations, wage settlements and employment policy. Announcement-driven — coverage clusters around company statements and official statistics releases rather than being continuous.

How do I filter news to jobs and employment?

Pass topic=WB_2670_JOBS on /search or /stories. Semantic mode is important here because the vocabulary varies enormously by source: the same event is a layoff, a restructuring, a headcount reduction or an efficiency programme depending on who is describing it.

HTTP 
GET /stories?topic=WB_2670_JOBS&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out with jobs and employment coverage?

Coverage skews heavily toward large employers and dramatic numbers. Most workforce reduction happens through attrition and small rolling cuts that no publication covers, so a news-derived measure is a lower bound on activity rather than a measure of it.

Who publishes on it

Company announcements picked up by business press, union and labour-focused outlets, and statistical releases covered by national papers. Trade titles for a given sector report workforce changes well before general business coverage.

In the sample, 1034 outlets carry jobs and employment coverage at about 2 articles each. The busiest is index.hr at roughly 5%, and index.hr, dailypolitical.com, themarketsdaily.com account for about 8% between them. Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.

What it is best for

Best for detecting announced workforce changes at larger employers, and for tracking industrial relations where union outlets report early. Weakest as a labour market measure, since most employment change is invisible to news and skewed heavily toward large and dramatic cases.

Monitoring it over time

The announcement pattern means coverage arrives in discrete lumps rather than continuously, so short windows return either an event or nothing. Widen the window and expect the distribution to be dominated by a handful of large employers; smaller cuts and gradual attrition are absent from the record entirely rather than merely under-reported. Sectoral and regional labour coverage is where gradual change shows up. National employment reporting is anchored to statistical releases and to large announcements, but hiring freezes, shift reductions and agency-worker changes appear first in regional and trade titles, phrased as business news rather than as employment news. That stream is low-volume, continuous, and the only place attrition is visible at all.

Which signals pair with jobs and employment?

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

HTTP 
GET /search?topic=WB_2670_JOBS&signal=labor&signal_min=0.25

How signals work →

Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

index.hr · dailypolitical.com · themarketsdaily.com · tribunnews.com · tickerreport.com · zazoom.it · euronews.com · naslovi.net · china.com · haberler.com · welt.de · indiatimes.com

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.