
Moonlighting Detection in India 2026: The UAN Check That Actually Works
EPFO data showed over one lakh people contributing to provident fund under two employers in the same month. Here is how the UAN check works and where it fails.
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EPFO data showed over one lakh people contributing to provident fund under two employers in the same month. Here is how the UAN check works and where it fails.

India's top five IT firms added 17 net employees in nine months while India led 42 countries on hiring outlook. Both are true, and the difference matters.

Women are 43 percent of India's STEM graduates and about 27 percent of its STEM workforce. That gap is conversion loss, and it sits inside processes you control.

Contract staffing costs a 15 to 35 percent markup and starts in two weeks. Permanent takes five months with notice but is cheaper from year two. How to choose.

Indian high-volume hiring loses 20 to 30 percent of booked interviews at peak. Here is what actually causes it, and the five step sequence that fixes most of it.

Indian agencies guarantee 60 to 90 days, but refilling a role takes 102 to 160 days. Here is what to negotiate into the clause before you sign anything.

Around 65 percent of Indian professionals receive a counter offer on resigning and 80 percent of those who accept leave within 18 months. Here is the real maths.

Automated reference checks cut turnaround from seven to ten days down to two to three, at roughly $5 to $50 a check. Here is what that buys you, and what it does not.

The average offer acceptance rate in 2026 runs 75 to 82 percent. Here are the benchmarks by role, the three failure modes behind declines, and what to fix first.

Cost per hire in India runs ₹30,000 to ₹70,000 for most roles against a US average of $5,475. Here is the channel by channel breakdown and what the benchmark hides.

71% of in-house builds get abandoned and upkeep alone runs $20,000 to $100,000 a year. The real AI recruiting build vs buy maths, with the four traps.

The published time to hire benchmarks for 2026, what each one actually measures, and the four stages where hiring calendars quietly lose a week or more.
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