2021 Seasonal Retail Hiring Outlook Published September 14, 2021 Few Large-scale Seasonal Hiring Announcements As Employers Worry About Finding Permanent Workers Ahead of the 2021 holiday season, retailers and other seasonal employers find themselves in the midst of a difficult labor shortage, raising wages and offering previously unheard-of benefits...
Job Cuts Fall To Lowest Monthly Total Since June 1997, Lowest YTD On Record Published September 2, 2021 U.S.-based employers announced 15,723 job cuts in August, down 17% from the 18,942 cuts announced in July. Last month’s total is the lowest since in June 1997, when...
JOB CUTS REMAIN LOW AT THE START OF SUMMER; 24,586 JOB CUTS ANNOUNCED IN MAY Published June 3, 2021 Job cuts announced by U.S.-based employers rose 7% in May to 24,586 from the 22,913 announced in April. Last month’s total is down 93.8% from May 2020, when employers...
Jobs Recovery Underway in Retail, Entertainment Posted April 20, 2021 SUMMER JOBS OUTLOOK PROMISING FOR TEENS, AS EMPLOYERS HAVE TROUBLE FINDING WORKERS Summer jobs created for teens aged 16 to 19 years old soared to 2.2 million during the pandemic-induced recession last year, as the types of jobs...
Retailers try to hire tens of thousands of workers PUBLISHED APR 14, 2021 Marielle Segarra, Senior Reporter @mariellesegarra READ & HEAR THE ORIGINAL STORY We’ve talked a lot about pent-up demand. Retailers are preparing for people to spend more money after they get vaccinated. “These employers are clearly anticipating a...
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. February 2021 Job Cuts Report Published march 4, 2021 Planned job cuts announced by U.S.-based companies fell 57% to 34,531 in February from 79,552 in January. It was the lowest monthly total since December 2019, when 32,843 job cuts were announced, according...
Published January 20, 2021 Seasonal Retail employment gains hit their highest total on record in December, as Retailers added 229,700 jobs during the month, according to preliminary non-seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). That is 189% higher than the 79,500 jobs Retailers...
Final 2020 Challenger Report Published JanUARY 7, 2021 Planned job cuts announced by U.S.-based companies jumped to 77,030 in December, up 18.9% from the 64,797 in November, according to a report released Thursday by global outplacement and business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. December’s...
2020 Seasonal Retail Hiring November Update Published December 8, 2020 Retail Hiring Slows in November; on Pace to Fall Below 2019 Level Seasonal Retail employment gains declined 35% in November from the previous November, as employers added 302,100 jobs in the sector last month compared to 466,400 during...
Job Cuts Fall in October to 80,666, Down 32% From September Published November 23, 2020 October marked the lowest number of layoffs in seven months, as U.S.-based employers announced plans to cut 80,666 jobs from their payrolls, according to a report released Thursday by global outplacement and...
