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Greenhouse Data Puts 19% of Q2 Job Ads in the 'Ghost Job' Bucket as Five States Move to Regulate Them
A WSJ piece from 2026-08-21 that reached 89 points on Hacker News reports that about 19% of jobs advertised on digital job boards in Q2 were ghost jobs by Greenhouse's measure, counting postings that drew at least one application but produced no interviews or job tests. Bills are pending in Pennsylvania (HB2321), New Jersey (S2136), New York (S8877 and S9208), California (AB1251) and Kentucky (HB324), several requiring employers to publish hiring timelines and pull listings once roles are filled. For engineers reading AI-era hiring signal off job-board volume, roughly one in five postings is noise.
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