Hiring boards of 31 company groups listed 1,784 open roles at the end of Oct 13, and one of the 31 has WARN notices on file

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model, from public records. Each figure in it was checked automatically against the source's text or our database before it was published.

At the end of Oct 13, 2026, the hiring boards of 31 company groups listed 1,784 open roles, and 784 roles were posted in the 30 days to that day. A role is one company's postings that share a title, so a role open in several cities counts once, and an open role is not a hire.1^,2^,3^,4

Ubisoft's boards listed 320 open roles and 232 roles posted in the 30 days to the end of Oct 13, more open roles than Roblox's 253 or Sony Group's 216. In the same 30 days Roblox's boards showed 101 roles posted and Sony Group's 102. Take-Two Interactive's boards listed 156 open roles and 50 roles posted in the 30 days, and Epic Games' 71 and 28. Nintendo's boards listed 54 open roles and 18 posted, Larian Studios' 51 and 12, and CD Projekt's 43 and 41.5^,6^,7^,8^,9^,10^,11^,12^,13^,14^,15^,16^,17^,18^,19^,20

A WARN notice is a layoff notice that a US state requires, and it counts here only once its match to a company has been approved. Of the 31 groups, one has WARN notices on file from the 12 months to Oct 13: Tencent and the companies under it, with 2 notices covering 82 workers. Tencent's boards also listed 193 open roles at the end of Oct 13 and 69 roles posted in the 30 days to that day. Roles and notices do not cover the same ground: a WARN notice is a filing with a US state for sites in that state, whatever the company's hiring boards list.21^,22^,23^,24^,25^,26

Microsoft and the companies under it are the only group outside those 31 with WARN notices we hold: 1,048 workers in 3 notices from the same 12 months. Microsoft's boards are not among those read, so its hiring is unknown, not zero.1^,27^,28^,29^,21^,30

We read the hiring boards of 41 companies in 31 company groups; a company that hires through a closed system such as Workday is not read, so a company missing from the figures is not a company without openings. Our records of the boards begin on Sep 26, 2026, and a collector run began on 9 of the 18 days from then to the end of Oct 13, with no run on Sep 27 to Sep 28, Sep 30 to Oct 5 and Oct 11, so a posting that opened and closed within those days is in no figure. The 30 days begin on Sep 14, before the boards were first read, so a role posted from then that had closed before Sep 26 is in no count. Our WARN records come from 8 US states, and for New York they begin on Jan 6, 2026, so the totals are the notices we hold, not every layoff.31^,1^,30^,32^,33^,21