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Signal key

location_removed

Category

Location

Source

Company Professional Network page (locations array).
An office location disappeared.

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When it fires

Trigger condition

An office disappears from the locations array.

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Stored fields

This signal persists the following metadata you can read downstream:

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Magnitude

Moderate.
For the full bucket definitions used across percentage-based signals, see Magnitude buckets.

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Why it matters

Closures can signal consolidation. A single removed office may be a lease move, but repeated removals indicate cost-cutting, this signal feeds office_consolidation when three or more occur in a window.

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How to use Location Removed Signal?

The scenario. You are an account manager at a corporate catering company. Your revenue is a bundle of standing contracts, weekly office lunches, meeting catering, pantry stocking, each tied to a physical office. Which means your revenue has a failure mode nobody at your company tracks: client offices that quietly close. The goal. Get ahead of office closures among your clients, so you can rescue the relationship even when the location disappears, and know your true revenue risk before the finance team feels it. The signal fires. location_removed fires for Palmetto Legal, a law firm you serve at three sites: their midtown office has vanished from the company’s locations. That office is your second-largest single contract with them. What it tells you. An office removal means people were relocated, downsized, or moved remote, and the standing services attached to that office are about to be cancelled by someone in procurement working down a checklist. If the first you hear of it is the cancellation email, you are a line item. If you call first, you are a partner helping them transition, and partners get the consolidated contract at the surviving offices. The play.
  1. Call your Palmetto contact the day the signal fires, lead with service, not alarm: how should catering adapt to the office changes?
  2. Propose the migration: shift the midtown budget toward the two surviving sites, larger weekly orders, event catering for the newly combined teams.
  3. Reforecast the account internally now, losing a location without losing the client is a fine outcome, but only if finance saw it coming.
  4. Watch the pattern: one closed office is logistics; the same signal firing twice in a year means the client is shrinking, and the whole account needs a risk plan.
Automate it. A monthly Company Signals API check on location_removed across your client list turns silent revenue risk into a call sheet. Why it lands. Location-dependent vendors always learn about closures last. This signal moves you from the cancellation list to the planning conversation.

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How to read it

Consolidation

Office closures often reflect cost reduction.

Single vs pattern

One removal is minor; three in 90 days is a pattern.

Composite input

Feeds office_consolidation.

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Outreach playbook

Watch for clustering. Three removals in 90 days triggers office_consolidation.

Location Added

A new office location appeared.

Office Consolidation

Multiple office closures in a short window.

Employee Size Band Downgrade

A company fell down a Professional Network employee size band.

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