#worker-statistics

#worker-statistics

Welsh and another pregnant colleague developed a plan. They would share a caseload, splitting responsibilities so they could continue working part-time while caring for their growing families.

Canada's economy added a modest 14,000 jobs in March, following major job losses during the first two months of the year, with the unemployment rate unchanged at 6.7 percent.

Remote work not only increases worker efficiency but also helps state workers who are struggling to pay bills. It costs state workers roughly $6,000 a year to come into office four times a week.

"If you go back to 2019, which wasn't great then, actually, before COVID, it was 12%. So obviously, this has worsened substantially, continues to worsen."

The study says that these researchers represent almost 80% of all 'late career' scientists - people who have at least 25 years of experience in publishing academic articles - in the world.

"For the first time, a rigid office attendance mandate has been broken and replaced with a more sensible, flexible approach based on what actually works," General Secretary Fran Heathcote said. "This has been a long campaign and reaching a deal members could accept reflects the determination of PCS members at ONS, the hard work of their reps and the value of trade unionism."

Economists expect the US added 55,000 jobs and the unemployment rate held steady at at a fairly low 4.3%. Last month's report showed a surprisingly strong job gain in January, but revisions to last year's data meant 2025 as a whole saw the weakest growth outside a recession in over 20 years.

Ciriello lost his job and couldn't find work for nearly a year, leading to significant financial hardship for his family, who lived in motels and later in a car.

On Wednesday, the government reported that U.S. employers added a surprisingly strong 130,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate fell to a still-low 4.3% from 4.4%. However, government revisions cut 2024-2025 U.S. payrolls by hundreds of thousands. That reduced the number of jobs created last year to just 181,000, a third of the previously reported 584,000 and the weakest since the pandemic year of 2020.

We introduce a new measure of AI displacement risk, observed exposure, that combines theoretical LLM capability and real-world usage data, weighting automated (rather than augmentative) and work-related uses more heavily. AI is far from reaching its theoretical capability: actual coverage remains a fraction of what's feasible.