The labor market is no longer moderating. It's moderated.

The October 2023 JOLTS report adds more fuel to the soft landing fire. hiringlab.org/2023/12/05/oct…

Indeed’s 2024 US Jobs & Hiring Trends Report: Reasons for Cautious Optimism hiringlab.org/2023/11/15/ind…

Advertisements for 4-day workweeks may be increasing, but have a long way to go before becoming mainstream. Read more here: hiringlab.org/2023/10/30/oct…

workers continue to have solid job security as layoffs remain low across the board. Even the layoff rate in the Information sector, the home of many tech and media companies, is below its pre-pandemic level.

Employers aren't as worried about finding workers as urgency to hire continues to drop from its 2021 peak. Read more about seasonal hiring here lnkd.in/grJqJxHA

Generative AI jobs are growing exponentially, but still only 0.05% of job postings on Indeed hiringlab.org/2023/09/21/ind…

New from Cory Stahle:

Pay Transparency Is Now in a Majority of US Job Postings—With More Growth to Come hiringlab.org/2023/09/14/pay…

have you been watching Indeed's job postings data hiringlab.org/data/?isid=hir… and wondered why certain metro's are falling behind?
Read about why postings are down in cities with a lot of remote eligible jobs here: hiringlab.org/2023/09/07/job…

Really thoughtful coverage of our paper in Forbes today. Thanks so much for the careful examination of our work kim elsesser, PhD!

forbes.com/sites/kimelses…

As the US becomes increasingly politically polarised, do companies need to pick a side?

My co-author Jason Sockin (not on Twitter!) wrote a post for the Glassdoor blog about our new paper with Emily Nix Evan Starr Svenja Gudell and Allison Shrivastava:

glassdoor.com/research/woke-…

I find this result in our new paper fascinating.

Mentions of #woke in employee reviews on Glassdoor in the US went up 325% relative to the sample average for companies that announced policies covering out-of-state travel for abortions after Roe v. Wade was overturned

Great to see such thoughtful discussion of my new paper with Svenja Gudell Emily Nix Allison Shrivastava Jason Sockin and Evan Starr.

Morgan Radford walked through our main findings on NBC News NOW: nbcnews.com/now/video/how-…

Our new report measures the impact of Dobbs v. Jackson on the labor market

We find that companies who offered abortion benefits had 8% more clicks and raised posted wages 4%, but had an 8% drop in management ratings

Read more here: hiringlab.org/2023/08/09/job…

Job openings are no longer defying gravity, quits continue to moderate, and layoffs are creeping up. The labor market is clearly cooling off.

More thoughts on the March 2023 #JOLTS report here hiringlab.org/2023/05/02/mar…

As job openings stayed relatively high over the past few months, doubts were emerging that perhaps demand for workers wasn’t moderating as expected in the face of broader efforts to cool the overall economy. But today’s data offers some needed clarity. hiringlab.org/2023/04/04/feb…

US job postings on Indeed are 56.5% above pre-pandemic baseline, as of last Friday 4/8.

⬇️ 1.6 percentage pt over previous week. Growth has been bouncing around the 57%, 58% mark for a while now, with slight fluctuations each week.

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US job postings on Indeed 60.6% above pre-pandemic baseline, as of last Friday 1/14.

⬇️ 1.3 pt over previous week. Cause of decline is likely the Omicron surge.

(No blog post this week, but more data & insight in 🧵!)

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2021 was a turbulent year for the US labor market. Will 2022 usher in a smooth transition to a strong, post-pandemic labor market? Here’s the Hiring Lab 2022 Outlook from 0xs4m poc and yours truly. hiringlab.org/2022/01/04/202…