Because the definition of a “ghost job” starts falling apart when you look closely at the numbers. A company that hires multiple people under a single generic listing like “Senior Software Engineer” would be classified as a ghost job, despite actually producing more hires than job listings. It would be annoying as hell if there was a law dictating that we had to post 50 separate job listings every time we wanted to hire 50 people and then carefully assign candidates to the right one so we didn’t accidentally trigger some ghost job law.

Seems like a difficult thing to enforce. Presumably not impossible to make some progress tho.

Just speculating here but perhaps those ghost job listings are used to artificially boost the appearance of growth or even just things being business as usual.

Might be useful to some folks.