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Economy

bucolic_frolic

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1. This is end of year hiring for large corporations

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Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:28 PM

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Department and division budgets must be spent or it's a fail for execs and next year's budget asks. Bonuses would not be granted. Plus they know AI is rifling their workforce and need numbers on hand until they consolidate around AI and let the excess go.

Small businesses are shutting down or in contraction from tariffs. They are the growth employment engines, but are dwarfed at this time of year by big business which has all the money.

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I don't understand the employment data [View all] question everything Friday OP

This is end of year hiring for large corporations bucolic_frolic Friday #1

The numbers are seasonally adjusted progree Friday #2

I don't believe government statistics bucolic_frolic Saturday #6

Are they accounting for mercuryblues Friday #3

The numbers are seasonally adjusted (see #2 above). And they are uninsurance claims, i.e. layoffs, not net job changes progree Friday #4

I don't know either. You know the usual explanation: Krasnov Krasnov! progree Friday #5