{"id":173851,"date":"2025-12-31T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/everybodys-afraid-for-their-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:15:13","slug":"everybodys-afraid-for-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/everybodys-afraid-for-their-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everybody\u2019s afraid for their jobs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/big-companies-aren-t-making-172141840.html\">\u2018Everybody\u2019s afraid for their jobs\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/big-companies-aren-t-making-172141840.html\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/big-companies-aren-t-making-172141840.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2025-12-31 13:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aol.com\">www.aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summarized list focusing on the key points from the provided report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Limited Workforce Expansion Plans:<\/strong> Many large companies have indicated they have no plans to expand their workforce in 2026, despite a 4-year high in unemployment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economic Concerns Among CEOs:<\/strong> At a CEO gathering, 66 percent surveyed reported plans to either reduce their workforce or maintain current team sizes, reflecting economic worries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Federal Reserve Remarks on Job Market:<\/strong> Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller described near-zero job growth as unhealthy and cited concerns among CEOs around AI&#8217;s impact on staffing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Employee Retention Rates:<\/strong> Employees are holding onto their jobs at lower rates than usual, according to IBM&#8217;s CEO, reducing the impetus to hire.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI and Workforce Adjustments:<\/strong> Companies like Wells Fargo anticipate significant changes due to AI, even if those changes will take time to be fully realized.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Projected Unemployment Stability:<\/strong> Forecasters at Indeed predict that the unemployment rate will remain around 4.6 percent for 2026 without much change.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Increase in Corporate Bankruptcies:<\/strong> A surge in corporate bankruptcies, reaching a 15-year high, is attributed to inflation, interest rates, and trade wars, suggesting broader economic stress. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These points encapsulate the main concerns and trends highlighted in the report regarding employment outlooks and economic conditions for 2026.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Everybody\u2019s afraid for their jobs\u2019 https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/big-companies-aren-t-making-172141840.html Publish Date: 2025-12-31 13:14:00 Source Domain: www.aol.com Here is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_the_independent_us_877\/e3fb197dc9ff3160d549cc5487fd4f55","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173853,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173851\/revisions\/173853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}