AI & Jobs The layoffs slowed. The rehiring froze.
June's jobless-claims report shows firings staying low while continuing claims climb to a three-month high — a labor market that won't let go of you but won't take you back either.
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AI & Jobs June's jobless-claims report shows firings staying low while continuing claims climb to a three-month high — a labor market that won't let go of you but won't take you back either.
AI & Jobs A Harvard working paper covering 62 million U.S. workers across 285,000 firms finds that at companies adopting generative AI, junior hiring drops 7.7% within six quarters — driven not by layoffs but by a silent freeze on new positions. Axios reran the numbers on April 21.