At least 767 roles were posted in the 30 days to Nov 3 on the hiring boards we read; WARN notices we hold for 5 of those groups cover 880 workers over 12 months

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 Nov 3, 2026 (UTC), the hiring boards of 31 company groups listed 1,806 open roles. At least 767 roles were posted in the 30 days to that day, a floor, because the boards were read on 28 of those 30 days and a role posted and closed between two readings is not counted. Over the 12 months to the same day, 5 of those 31 groups have a WARN notice, a layoff notice a US state requires, among the notices we hold: 12 notices covering 880 workers.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6^,7

Ubisoft had 284 open roles at the end of Nov 3 and at least 195 roles posted in the 30 days to it, beside 1 WARN notice covering 93 workers in the 12 months to it. Sony Group had 238 open roles and at least 124 posted, beside 1 notice covering 292 workers. Tencent had 221 open roles and at least 91 posted, beside 3 notices covering 150 workers. Epic Games had 68 open roles and at least 21 posted, beside 6 notices covering 217 workers. Keywords Studios had 31 open roles and at least 1 role posted, beside 1 notice covering 128 workers.8^,9^,10^,11^,12^,13^,14^,15^,16^,17^,18^,19^,20^,21^,22^,23^,24^,25^,26^,27

These measures cover different ground: a WARN notice is a US state filing for sites in that state, whatever the company's hiring boards list, and the figures are set side by side, not as cause or sequel.28^,29

Five other company groups have a WARN notice we hold in the same 12 months and no board we read: 23 notices covering 5,894 workers. Amazon accounts for 16 of those notices and 4,395 workers, Microsoft for 4 notices and 1,261 workers. Their hiring is unknown to us, which is not the same as no openings.30^,31^,32^,33^,34^,35^,36^,37

We read the hiring boards of 42 companies in 31 groups, and a company that hires through a closed system such as Workday is not read. Our records of the boards begin on Sep 26, 2026, and a collector run began on 30 of the 39 days from then to the end of Nov 3. Our WARN records come from 8 US states, and a notice counts for a group only once its match to the company is approved, so the totals are the notices we hold and not a count of every layoff. A role is one company's postings under one title, and an open role is not a hire. The counts are as we counted them when this article was written, and a posting confirmed or closed later can move them by a few roles.38^,1^,37^,39^,28^,29^,2