Skill Economy & Future of Work2024
Job applications +31% YoY vs requisitions +7% (Workday H1 2024)
Workday Recruiting customers processed 173 million job applications in H1 2024 - up 31% year over year - while requisitions grew only 7%; applications grew roughly 4x faster than openings.
Primary source
Workday Global Workforce Report 2024
https://newsroom.workday.com/2024-09-10-Workday-Global-Workforce-Report-Job-Market-Tightens-as-AI-Reshapes-Hiring-ProcessesPublished 2024 — compiled by JobCannon Research.
Why this stat matters
This figure belongs to the skill economy & future of workvertical of JobCannon's ongoing review of hiring, AI, and career-outcome research. We track it because it is one of the few primary-source estimates with a published sample, methodology, or legal record. Cite the original source first; this page exists to make the figure easy to find and link to.
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