Wages vs. inflation: Wages are winning... for now
Making gains A Labor Department report on Friday revealed that the US job market is looking healthier than many had predicted, with the economy adding 216,000 jobs, leaving the unemployment rate unch...
Stoppage time: Millions of workers walked out in 2023
Stoppage time While robots have been rising up, American workers have been increasingly downing tools this year: strikes and lockouts have blighted multiple major American industries, with several hi...
Etsy's making cutbacks
Yes, Etsy is laying off 225 employees — or some 11% of its total workforce — as the online marketplace, which lets independent vendors flog their handmade wares, struggles in a “ very challenging ” en...
Shake Up
Shake up Shake Shack, one of the newest big names in the fast-food game , will be saying goodbye to CEO Randy Garutti in 2024 — after leading the burger and milkshake chain for more than 20 years. Whi...
Amazon's army: The retailer is hiring 250k workers for the holidays
Amazon’s army Corporate giants all have their own ways of getting into the Christmas spirit: Starbucks rolls out its red cups and increasingly experimental beverage offerings , Coca-Cola starts airin...
Walmart's world: The retailer has an army of associates
Walmart’s world We know you know Walmart is big, but it’s hard to overstate just how big America’s largest retailer actually is. In addition to selling the most stuff and employing the most people of...
Serving's up: Tracking the pay packets of leisure & hospitality workers
Serving's up For years, the pay packets of America’s leisure and hospitality workers grew at a less-than-stellar pace, falling behind the wider economy. The end of the pandemic changed this dynamic d...
Bridging the gap: The share of women in the highest-paying jobs
Degrees of separation Less than a month after Harvard professor Dr. Claudia Goldin became the third woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on the gender pay gap, a new Pew ...
Driving into debt: Americans are falling behind on their car loans.
Road to nowhere? The share of borrowers who are currently off track with their car repayments hit an almost 3-decade high in September, as 6.1% of Americans with subprime car loans fell 60+ days behi...
The old normal: Work-from-home rates are dropping... in some states more than others
The old normal? Nature is healing... at least from the perspective of employers looking to push return-to-office mandates. The share of Americans working from home has fallen below 26% according to n...
Re-animate: DreamWorks can't seem to recreate the Shrek magic
DreamWorkers DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind mega hits like Shrek and Madagascar, yesterday confirmed that it had slashed approximately 70 positions as the movie maker looks to cut costs mor...
How much does this pay? Salary transparency is coming to a job site near you
See-through salaries The days of waiting until the end of a job interview to awkwardly ask about pay may soon be behind us, according to job-searching site Indeed.com , as new data reveals that just ...
Triple strike: Electrification is an important part of the unprecedented auto workers strike
Triple strike Members of the United Auto Workers union are on strike , with thousands walking out of three plants in Missouri, Michigan and Ohio this morning, as negotiations between the UAW and the ...
Labor days: Unions don't have the numbers they used to
Fruits of labor Whether you were enjoying the sunshine at a parade, cooling down by the beach or pool, or just scoring some bargains in the sales, we hope you had an uplifting Labor Day weekend. With...
Open for business: It's still a job seekers' market
A little cooler As summer begins to draw to a close, America’s hot job market is showing signs of cooling, with openings for July dropping to their lowest level in over 2 years according to yesterday...
The rare minimum: America's minimum wage is becoming irrelevant
Pay talks As America’s job market continues to sizzle, conversations around increased compensation are generally getting louder: from bumper pay rises for UPS drivers and American Airlines pilots , t...
No new data: China has stopped reporting youth unemployment
Data not available After 6 consecutive months of rising youth unemployment in urban areas of China, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced it would no longer be publishing the figures — it...
Pests: Exterminators are in high demand
Bugging out Do you like to make things clean, don’t mind bugs or creepy crawlies and are looking for a career change? If so, you might want to consider joining the booming pest control industry in Am...
Measuring misery: The combined effects of inflation & unemployment
Measuring misery Apart from rising bills, the unemployment rate is another indicator worth watching, measuring — in simple terms — how many people want jobs, but can’t find work. The rate stood at ju...
Out of office: Do Americans take enough vacation?
Out of office If you’ve found yourself itching to get ‘OOO’ this summer, you’re not the only one: new data from the Labor Department shows that US workers have taken more vacation days in the first 6 ...