Layoff

Layoff - temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees for business reasons. Article “Layoff” in Spanish Wikipedia has 29 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 26 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Spanish) language version.

Since the creation of article “Layoff”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 496 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 2444 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #60540 in October 2023
• Global: #30076 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #245898 in January 2025
• Global: #5404 in March 2020

There are 20 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Layoff		47.4161
2	Hungarian (hu) Csoportos létszámcsökkentés		38.6549
3	Spanish (es) Layoff		28.9522
4	Hindi (hi) छंटनी		27.7469
5	Slovenian (sl) Odpuščanje		26.921
6	Chinese (zh) 裁員		22.9483
7	Simple English (simple) Layoff		22.5998
8	Russian (ru) Временное увольнение		22.0703
9	Serbian (sr) Višak zaposlenih		21.1298
10	German (de) Stellenabbau		20.229

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Layoff" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Layoff		3 052 905
2	Portuguese (pt) Downsizing		520 350
3	Japanese (ja) レイオフ		500 819
4	Swedish (sv) Permittering		263 818
5	Finnish (fi) Lomautus		138 871
6	French (fr) Mise à pied		99 228
7	Chinese (zh) 裁員		90 292
8	German (de) Stellenabbau		40 407
9	Norwegian (no) Permittering		38 139
10	Russian (ru) Временное увольнение		30 065

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Layoff" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Layoff		4 838
2	Japanese (ja) レイオフ		491
3	French (fr) Mise à pied		460
4	Chinese (zh) 裁員		278
5	Spanish (es) Layoff		114
6	Hindi (hi) छंटनी		100
7	Hungarian (hu) Csoportos létszámcsökkentés		85
8	Portuguese (pt) Downsizing		74
9	Russian (ru) Временное увольнение		70
10	German (de) Stellenabbau		52

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Layoff" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Layoff		284
2	Portuguese (pt) Downsizing		33
3	Japanese (ja) レイオフ		24
4	Swedish (sv) Permittering		20
5	German (de) Stellenabbau		19
6	Chinese (zh) 裁員		19
7	French (fr) Mise à pied		12
8	Norwegian (no) Permittering		11
9	Finnish (fi) Lomautus		8
10	Korean (ko) 일시 해고		8

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Layoff" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) レイオフ		1
2	Arabic (ar) تحجيم		0
3	German (de) Stellenabbau		0
4	English (en) Layoff		0
5	Spanish (es) Layoff		0
6	Finnish (fi) Lomautus		0
7	French (fr) Mise à pied		0
8	Hindi (hi) छंटनी		0
9	Hungarian (hu) Csoportos létszámcsökkentés		0
10	Korean (ko) 일시 해고		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Layoff" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Layoff		1 072
2	Japanese (ja) レイオフ		401
3	Chinese (zh) 裁員		281
4	Arabic (ar) تحجيم		255
5	Korean (ko) 일시 해고		117
6	Portuguese (pt) Downsizing		100
7	Ukrainian (uk) Звільнення		50
8	French (fr) Mise à pied		39
9	German (de) Stellenabbau		26
10	Norwegian (no) Permittering		21

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تحجيم
de	German Stellenabbau
en	English Layoff
es	Spanish Layoff
fi	Finnish Lomautus
fr	French Mise à pied
hi	Hindi छंटनी
hu	Hungarian Csoportos létszámcsökkentés
ja	Japanese レイオフ
ko	Korean 일시 해고
no	Norwegian Permittering
pt	Portuguese Downsizing
ru	Russian Временное увольнение
simple	Simple English Layoff
sl	Slovenian Odpuščanje
sr	Serbian Višak zaposlenih
sv	Swedish Permittering
uk	Ukrainian Звільнення
vi	Vietnamese Cắt giảm nhân sự
zh	Chinese 裁員

Best Rank

Spanish: #245898 01.2025

Global: #5404 03.2020

Best Rank

Spanish: #60540 10.2023

Global: #30076 12.2016

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