DeForest, WI jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Estimating ManagerThinking Ahead
- Customer Service LeadFleet Farm
- Sales Team LeadFleet Farm
Employers hiring most in DeForest
- Fleet Farm2 open roles
- Thinking Ahead1 open role
DeForest layoffs
No layoff notices naming DeForest in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Dane County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 3.6% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 4.9% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.5%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+4,588 jobs), hotels & food (+2,417 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,315 jobs), finance & insurance (−1,212 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in DeForest. Each link goes to the publisher.
- More Madison area businesses are adopting AI, survey findsThe Capital Times · Oct 27, 2026
- More Madison area businesses adopt AI amid concern over value, effectsThe Capital Times · Oct 27, 2026
- Cardinal Call: UW–Madison merges botany and integrative biology departmentsThe Daily Cardinal · Oct 21, 2026
- UW-Madison biology merger raises staff concerns over layoffs, botany’s futureThe Daily Cardinal · Oct 15, 2026
- Gov. Evers, DWD Announce $6.6 Million in New Grants to Train Over 3,800 Wisconsin Workers in Advanced Manufacturing and AIWHBL · Oct 14, 2026
- Fearing AI, young workers retrain for hands-on jobsThe Hechinger Report on MSN · Sep 29, 2026
Learn and get funded in DeForest
- Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
- Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
- Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
- Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving DeForest. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Wisconsin? How to file for unemployment in Wisconsin (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin, Inc.
Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Marquette, Sauk
Dane County economy
2.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.3% the month before
347,110
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
564,777
people in Dane County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$88,108
median household income
Source: Census ACS
55%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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