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.

Nothing is random.

Your genes don't decide your fate but they tilt your odds. Same goes for the economy.

November 11, 2026genomedefense

Front-Office DNA Doesn't Travel

We mapped where every NFL front office's people came from and where its alumni went. Mixing the gene pool doesn't buy wins.

November 11, 2026NFLsports

Golf league. Showbiz DNA.

LIV wanted a spectacle, so it hired showrunners. The PGA TOUR hired golf people.

November 5, 2026LIV GolfPGA TOUR

Highest-Paying, Sure. Growing?

Some are rocket ships. Some are treading water.

November 3, 2026startupspay

Where There's Fire, There's Hiring

You can't annualize a headcount.

October 23, 2026AIdata labeling

ChatGPT-gate

A Saudi engineer, a Saudi prince, Ben Horowitz and a toilet paper roll. Alex Jones wanted the workforce data. Here it is.

October 14, 2026OpenAIAI labs

Bumble Found Their Partner

But how long will it last?

October 13, 2026Bumbleequity

Speedball Capitalism?

Worst grad market in years. Unless you spent last summer on Wall Street.

October 12, 2026Wall Streetinterns

Why another Lucid layoff?

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

October 8, 2026LucidRivian

Lawyers, Guns & Money

Down on my luck?

October 5, 2026AIBig Law

Win the quarter, lose a generation.

Nike just did it. To itself.

October 2, 2026NikeNKE

Apple's Dad Bod

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

September 30, 2026Appleorg design

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

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

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

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

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
Welcome

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