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Signal key

employee_decrease

Category

Decline

Source

Company Professional Network page (employee count field).
A company’s employee count dropped by at least one.

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When it fires

Trigger condition

employee_count decreases by ≥ 1 between snapshots.

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Magnitude

Bucketed on percentage change in employee_count. Buckets are assigned from the percentage change between snapshots:

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Why it matters

Mild on its own, but it feeds the heavier decline patterns (layoff_signal, decline_signal, restructuring_signal). A single departure is normal churn; sustained decreases across crawls indicate genuine contraction.

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How to read it

Normal vs trend

One drop is churn; repeated drops are contraction.

Composite fuel

Feeds layoff_signal, decline_signal, and restructuring_signal.

Not always bad

Contracting companies sometimes buy efficiency tools, read the context.

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Outreach playbook

Don’t alert alone. Use as a component of decline composites or to pause expansion-focused outreach.

Layoff Signal

Employee count dropped sharply in a single interval.

Employee Size Band Downgrade

A company fell down a Professional Network employee size band.

Decline Signal

A company shows a clear distress pattern.

Restructuring Signal

A company is undergoing major restructuring.

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