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[buzzsprout episode='11839673' player='true'] Regardless of the topic, when it comes to the job market, any and all problems will be blamed on working class folks. The power brokers will not blame themselves. They will twist themselves into pretzels trying to find absurd arguments about how average...

Photo by Philippe Leone on Unsplash   "Yelp shuts some offices doubling down on remote; CEO calls hybrid 'hell' CEO Jeremy Stoppelman calls hybrid offices 'the worst of both worlds' as he doubles down on remote work." -https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/22/yelp-shutters-offices/  Published on June 22, 2022 "Hybrid workers are loyal workers." -https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hybrid-workers-are-loyal-workers-6103618/ ...

[buzzsprout episode='11848207' player='true'] But just as the market can't sustain obscene real estate prices, I don't think the job market will remain so heavily candidate-driven forever either. In the event of a recession, I think we will see the job market change much faster than if...

-Fortune.com has dedicated an entire section now to RTO. 😖 I'm reminded of a scene in the 1993 movie Malice where the character Jed Hill says something like, "Welcome to the land of You Don't Have a Choice. This is the here and the now...

[buzzsprout episode='11818914' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 12/5 - 12/9. ✔️ So...

So how do we make sense of it?  I think it’s important to pay attention to what is going on in your local area as well as what’s going on in your specific industry. I’m a big believer that by the time you are “officially” told...

[buzzsprout episode='11809620' player='true'] 👻 Ghosts and bad hiring managers and lack of remote work, oh my. Allegedly, the job market is still BLAZING HAWT! Yet simultaneously, job seekers are looking for back-up employment, side hustles, and/or part-time jobs. So...

On the heels of this bizarre info: -https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/your-job-is-probably-safe-even-in-a-recession-employees-are-going-to-have-the-upper-hand-for-years-/amp_articleshow/95980473.cms which I reported on yesterday, now we have an absolute laundry list of companies that have laid off in Q4. I wonder if those people feel like they have the upper hand? According to LinkedIn, December layoffs have included Wireless...

-https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/your-job-is-probably-safe-even-in-a-recession-employees-are-going-to-have-the-upper-hand-for-years-/amp_articleshow/95980473.cms Honestly, I would laugh at this but I find it so offensive, I'd rather not. I mean...