The Headcount

Stories from the workforce. Who is hiring, who is cutting, and where the people are going, read off a panel of 120 million careers before it shows up anywhere else.

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Why another Lucid layoff?

Too many people for too few cars. Lucid delivers 3 cars per head. Rivian, 7. Tesla, 43.

October 8, 2026LucidRivian
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Lawyers, Guns & Money

Down on my luck?

October 5, 2026AIBig Law
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Win the quarter, lose a generation.

Nike just did it. To itself.

October 2, 2026NikeNKE
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Apple's Dad Bod

Ternus's first move is cutting fat from the middle.

September 30, 2026Appleorg design
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Four kinds of sales floor

RepVue knows what the top AEs make at 25 software companies. workforce.ai knows who's still on the floor a year later. Put the two together and every company lands in one of four boxes.

September 28, 2026salescompensation
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We know what the stars make. How common is the experience?

RepVue found the 25 sales floors where top AEs are making extraordinary money. We added turnover, growth and tenure to give those numbers a little more context.

September 27, 2026salescompensation
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Costanza Effect and the Andreessen Corollary

Marc Andreessen says fade the Harvard and Stanford MBAs. We checked 58,000 grads across 42 classes.

September 25, 2026MBAAndreessen
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Trinity sends the most of its graduates to Wall Street. Williams sends them to Goldman.

Eleven NESCAC schools, 194,000 alumni, one question: who is working in finance right now. Trinity leads on the broad cut, Williams on the strict one, and the bottom three never move.

September 24, 2026NESCACWall Street
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Bro, do you even fab?

Intel says it can only meet half its CPU demand. Well, yeah. The fab that makes 18A has lost 741 engineers while the stock went up 4x.

September 23, 2026IntelSemiconductors
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People move before the money does.

The Headcount is where we publish what the workforce is telling us. Short pieces, real numbers, and a question you can take further.

September 21, 2026Editor's note