Layoffs Show No Signs of a Weakening Labor Market by Wolf Richter • Dec 11, 2025 • 35 Comments If the labor market is weakening, it’s on the job-creation side of the equation, maybe in part due to AI.
CEO of ICE on Making Mortgages “Portable” & “Assumable” in the Era of MBS, and on AI at ICE and its Impact on Hiring by Wolf Richter • Dec 10, 2025 • 30 Comments “I look at our own behavior, which is we’re kind of slow walking some of that kind of hiring now because we’re using these tools.”
Job Openings Jump by 443,000 in 2 Months: Labor Market Retightens, Fed Faces Scenario of Solid Job Market and Accelerating Inflation by Wolf Richter • Dec 9, 2025 • 62 Comments 7.67 million job openings, highest since May, 2nd highest all year, and up from a year ago.
Low-Fire Low-Hire Job Market, after Massive Overhiring by Big Tech & Others in 2021 & 2022 by Wolf Richter • Dec 4, 2025 • 61 Comments But today’s initial unemployment insurance claims were a doozie that’ll reverse next week.
Private-Sector Job Trends by Industry: From Job Destruction in “Information” to Job Creation in “Mining & Natural Resources” by Wolf Richter • Dec 3, 2025 • 55 Comments Three-month average job creation dips into negative for the first time since 2020, per ADP data.
Federal Government Job Cuts Still Hitting Employment Data: The Labor Market by Major Industry in Charts by Wolf Richter • Nov 20, 2025 • 36 Comments Federal and state governments cut 122,000 employees this year through September. But other industries hired.
Data Fog Engulfing October due to Government Shutdown May “Never” Be Fully Lifted by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2025 • 73 Comments Survey-based data doesn’t exist because the surveys were not conducted in October. But data that companies electronically submitted exists.
Private-Sector Job Growth Lumbers Along after Getting Hammered by the 2024 Benchmark Adjustments in Sep & Aug by Wolf Richter • Nov 5, 2025 • 44 Comments ADP Employment Report: +42,000 Jobs in October; wages +4.5% for “Job Stayers” and +6.7% for “Job Changers.”
Even as Revenues Grow, Amazon to Lay off 14,000. Why? AI & Corporate Efficiency. Walmart and Others Toot Similar Horn by Wolf Richter • Oct 28, 2025 • 176 Comments Revenue growth without employment growth. But Amazon spent $78 billion on capex in 2024 and more in 2025. So companies that get this cash hire more people than Amazon sheds?
Jobs Report to Get Hit by 100,000 Federal Government “Deferred Resignations” on top of the Jobs Already Shed. But ICE Is Hiring by Wolf Richter • Oct 4, 2025 • 74 Comments Bringing federal job losses to over 200,000 since January. Excluding federal & state, nonfarm payrolls haven’t been all that bad.
