Why the U.S. and Puerto Rico are the worst places to suffer a layoff

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Hundreds of thousands of employees were laid off in 2022 in sweeping job cuts that affected nearly every industry. Losing a job is challenging as is, but could the place an employee calls home make it even harder? 

To provide some insight into which locations are the best and worst for laid off workers, job insights platform Lensa ranked locales on factors like notice periods and unemployment rates, both of which contribute to how hard or easy it will be to find new work. They also analyzed compensation data and fair pay laws in each location.  

Unemployment: 5.8%
Layoff score: 1.07 out 10

Unemployment: 3.5%
Layoff score: 1.12 out of 10

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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