> ## Documentation Index
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# Headcount Recovery

> Employee growth returned after a recent decline.

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  <Card title="Signal key" icon="code">
    `headcount_recovery`
  </Card>

  <Card title="Category" icon="category">
    Growth
  </Card>

  <Card title="Source" icon="world">
    Company Professional Network page, evaluated against 180-day signal history.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Employee growth returned after a recent decline.

## When it fires

<Card title="Trigger condition" icon="bolt">
  `employee_growth` fires AND at least one prior `employee_decrease` exists in the last 180 days for the same company.
</Card>

## Magnitude

Bucketed on the recovery delta. A sharp rebound (hyper) is a stronger story than a slow crawl back.

Buckets are assigned from the percentage change between snapshots:

| Bucket     | Condition                   |
| ---------- | --------------------------- |
| `low`      | 1% ≤ \|delta\_pct\| \< 5%   |
| `moderate` | 5% ≤ \|delta\_pct\| \< 15%  |
| `high`     | 15% ≤ \|delta\_pct\| \< 30% |
| `hyper`    | \|delta\_pct\| ≥ 30%        |

## Why it matters

A company clawing back from a dip is often re-investing, which makes for warm timing. Recovery follows restructuring, a pivot, or a tough quarter, and the rebuild phase brings fresh tooling decisions as the company resets its stack.

## How to read it

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  <Card title="Turnaround">
    Signals a company exiting a difficult period and re-entering growth, often with new leadership.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Stack reset">
    Post-recovery rebuilds frequently re-evaluate vendors chosen during the lean period.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Context required">
    Always look at what caused the prior decrease, layoffs vs seasonal vs reorg change the pitch.
  </Card>
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## Outreach playbook

<Tip>
  Cross-reference the prior decline cause. A recovery after layoffs is a re-platforming opportunity.
</Tip>

## Related signals

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  <Card title="Employee Growth" href="/buying-signals/signals/growth/employee-growth">
    A company's employee count increased by at least one between snapshots.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Employee Decrease" href="/buying-signals/signals/decline/employee-decrease">
    A company's employee count dropped by at least one.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Restructuring Signal" href="/buying-signals/signals/composite/restructuring-signal">
    A company is undergoing major restructuring.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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