America’s job market has a surprising problem: Nobody’s hiring, nobody’s firing

https://www.the-independent.com/us/money/us-jobs-resilience-iran-healthcare-b2990364.html

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Mrcheesle@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 67d (2 replies)

Nobody’s firing? You sure about that?

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 67d (1 reply)

Didnt tech lose 40,000 jobs, uh, yesterday?

stoly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 67d

I suspect that they consider separation for cause as something different from separation without cause. The article doesn't explain the term, and I think that it is a pretty bad journalistic lapse.

Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 67d (2 replies)

They're in a recession. They just don't know it yet because the numbers are fudged by the AI bubble.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 67d

ai bubble or president that fires people if the numbers are not good.

stoly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 67d

Which is ready to bring down everything with it. Nobody has ever seen anything like what is coming up. I am happy to be in a stable university position, let me tell you.

scutiger@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 67d

Clearly layoffs don't count as firing