Department workforce trends

Description

A Department trend event tracks when a company increases or decreases staffing within a specific department. This data helps monitor employment trends, workforce restructuring, and organizational growth or downsizing. Important: The Department Trend event tracks only recent workforce distribution changes. If no changes occurred within the last quarter (timestamp_from should be set to the past 3 months), no data will be returned. For a historical workforce analysis, use the Workforce Trends Enrichment API.

Use cases:

Labor Market Analysis: Identify hiring or downsizing trends within industries.
Competitive Intelligence: Track workforce changes in competitor organizations.
Economic Indicators: Assess how staffing changes affect regional and industry employment.
Business Strategy: Understand how companies adjust their workforce for growth or cost-cutting measures.

Data Schema

Event Name: “increase_in_<department>” or “decrease_in_<department>” (Use these values in the event_types parameter when querying workforce change events per department. Replace <department> with the actual department name.)

Signal	Description	API Name	Data Type
QoQ change in department count	Quarter over quarter rate of change in the number of employees working at the selected department. Calculation: (current quarter headcount of department / prev. quarter headcount of department) * 100.	department_change	integer
Event time	The timestamp indicating when the event actually occurred	event_time	datetime
Department trend type	Type of department change type: Increase / Decrease	change_type	string
Event name	Name of the event related to the department change.	event_name	string

Departments Included

Event Name	Description
`increase_in_engineering_department`	Increase in engineering department workforce
`increase_in_sales_department`	Increase in sales department workforce
`increase_in_marketing_department`	Increase in marketing department workforce
`increase_in_operations_department`	Increase in operations department workforce
`increase_in_customer_service_department`	Increase in customer service department workforce
`increase_in_all_departments`	Increase across all departments
`decrease_in_engineering_department`	Decrease in engineering department workforce
`decrease_in_sales_department`	Decrease in sales department workforce
`decrease_in_marketing_department`	Decrease in marketing department workforce
`decrease_in_operations_department`	Decrease in operations department workforce
`decrease_in_customer_service_department`	Decrease in customer service department workforce
`decrease_in_all_departments`	Decrease across all departments

Query Example

cURL

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/businesses/events" \
  -H "API_KEY: your_api_key_here" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "event_types": [
    "increase_in_engineering_department"
  ],
  "business_ids": [
    "8adce3ca1cef0c986b22310e369a0793"
  ],
  "timestamp_from": "2025-01-01T10:03:03.050Z"
}'

Best Practices

Filter by department (department) to track workforce changes in specific fields.
Monitor change type (change_type) to distinguish between hiring and downsizing trends.
Use timestamps (event_time) to analyze trends over time.

Hiring (per department)

Hiring by Department

Employee Joined Company

Announcement of a new employee joining the company

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