job loss
Terminated from employment
Job loss is the termination of employment, whether through layoff, firing, or company closure.
The term emphasizes the worker's perspective—something taken away rather than given up: The factory closure meant job loss for three hundred workers.
Job losses often appear in economic reporting as indicators of broader trends: The recession brought massive job losses across the sector.
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- layoffTermination without cause
- walking papersInformal dismissal notice
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- redundancyNeedless duplication
getting sacked · reskilling · termination · dismissal · automation · skill gap · pink slip · financial instability · bankruptcy · social isolation · mental health · economic recession · economic downturn · emotional distress · mental health support · firing · severance packages · golden parachute
- employmentjobs, career, careers, interview, interviews
- unemploymentunemployment, unemployed, jobless, joblessness, unemployment rate
- career killersburnout, firing, layoff, demotion, bad reference
- life challengesadversity, hardship, crisis, failure, loneliness
- life changesmarriage, death, divorce, birth, graduation
- lossesdeficit, depletion, shortage, deprivation, bereavement
job losshiring
Giving someone work
employment · job offer · recruitment · onboarding · reemployment
job lossjob security
Protected employment status
employment security · job retention · tenure · permanent employment · job protection
job lossresignation
Voluntary relinquishment of position
quitting · voluntary resignation · voluntary separation · retirement · walking away