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Job creation in March easily topped expectations in a sign of continued acceleration for what has been a bustling and resilient labor market.Nonfarm payrolls increased 303,000 for the month, well above the Dow Jones estimate for a rise of 200,000 and higher than the downwardly revised 270,000 gain in February, the L...

The Google office in New York on February 2, 2023.Ed Jones | Afp | Getty ImagesAllison Croisant, a data scientist with about a decade of experience in technology, was laid off by PayPal earlier this year, joining the masses of unemployed across her industry. Croisant has one word to describe the process of looking f...

Of the 61 companies that took part in a six-month four-day working week pilot in 2022, at least 54 (89%) said the policy was still in place, while 31 firms (51%) said they had permanently switched to a shorter working week.The companies involved were invited to take part in a follow-up study one year on from the wor...

A jobseeker attends a jobs fair in Castle Hayne, North Carolina, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMany of the market's top companies with the largest workforces in the nation are touting degreeless jobs and actively removing degree requirements from more job postings. The idea of ...

So far this year, Google, Amazon and Discord are among technology companies to announce layoffs.Tech companies including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce laid off 6% to 13% of their workforce in 2023, leading more technology workers to trade the prospect of high-growth equity and household-name employment...

December's jobs report showed employers added 216,000 jobs for the month while the unemployment rate held at 3.7%. That compared with respective estimates of 170,000 and 3.8%.The hiring boost came from a gain of 52,000 in government jobs and another 38,000 in health care-related fields such as ambulatory health-care...