Hiring momentum

Across 3 observation days between 2026-07-17 and 2026-07-23, we recorded 1,291 roles opening and 1,119 closing — a net of +172. That works out to 1.15 roles opened for every role closed. This is a short window and should be read as a current reading, not a trend.

Every crawl stamps each listing with when we first saw it and, once it disappears from the employer's careers page, when it closed. Counting those transitions gives real openings and closures rather than an estimate. It measures listing lifecycle, not headcount: a role can close because it was filled, cancelled, or reposted under a new ID, and we cannot tell those apart from the outside.

Because it is a backfill, not hiring. The first crawl inserts the entire catalogue at once — on 2026-07-15 and 2026-07-16 and 2026-07-24 and 2026-07-25 that was 24,212 listings appearing on a single day. Plotted as-is it would read as an enormous hiring surge followed by a collapse. The capture script flags any day whose intake is more than three times the median of the others, and those days are excluded from every figure on this page.

No, and it should not be read as one. A closed listing usually means the role was filled, which is the opposite of a layoff. We publish this instead of a layoff tracker because there is no free, reliable, structured source of Indian layoff data, and a hand-maintained list would go stale without anyone noticing. Listing lifecycle is something we can actually measure and keep current.