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Opendoor: Layoffs
Opendoor shut down entire India office with approximately 250 employee layoffs, citing AI-led automation. Company consolidated manual workflows previously handled by offshore Indian employees.
Source: ETtech (Economic Times)
The leadership read
Workforce moves like this mark the contracting side of technology hiring conditions.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 107.2 (Hot), down 1.8 month-on-month — shows Asia signal flow steady (+0.3pts).
Opendoor: 3 signals in the last 90 days — above the Technology median of 1 across 208 tracked companies; 0.2% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow; 3 tracked across 24 days.
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