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Collection 14. Workforce Disruption Photographs, March–August 2026.

Reference
APP-003
Section
Papers
Filed
Status
ACTIVE

Photographer unidentified. Digital captures, various dimensions.

Extent: 5 items (4 photographs, 1 printed matter).

Transferred from the Office of Workforce Disruption upon dissolution.

Access: open. Reproduction restricted.

  • SOFTWARE INDUSTRY — UNITED STATES — 2026
  • DISPLACED PERSONS — TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
  • ENCAMPMENTS
  • SAAS COLLAPSE, 2026
  • MIGRANT LABOR — REMOTE
Tents crowded beneath a concrete interstate overpass. Laptops and small solar panels stand on milk crates outside the tents, two men warm their hands over a burning barrel, and a hand-lettered sign reads NO TRESPASSING, STANDUP AT 9AM SHARP.
Plate 1. Encampment beneath interstate overpass. Standup observed daily. Location unrecorded.
A man sits in the open doorway of a moving boxcar with a laptop on his knees and a phone beside him, rail line and mountains behind. Lettering beneath the photograph reads HOPPING THE 5G.
Plate 2. “Hopping the 5G.”
A man in a hat and worn coat, carrying a satchel, stands in the open doorway of an office beneath a sign reading PROSSER AND SONS BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION, SINCE 1934. A clerk in shirtsleeves and suspenders looks up from a ledger on the counter.
Plate 3. Applicant at the counter, Prosser & Sons Business Transformation. The firm has since been acquired.
A man sits on the wooden steps of a clapboard house holding his hat, a rolling suitcase beside him, while a woman in an apron stands in the doorway behind him. Lettering beneath the photograph reads YOU GOT ANY PLATFORM WORK, MAAM?
Plate 4. “You got any platform work, ma’am?”
A folded, water-stained printed sheet headed A FIELD GUIDE TO MARKS OF THE WANDERING ENGINEER, with a grid of sixteen small drawn symbols, each with a short caption beneath it. The footer reads OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DISRUPTION, 2026.
Item 5. A Field Guide to Marks of the Wandering Engineer. Printed matter, one sheet, folded. Office of Workforce Disruption, 2026. Water damage.