18 stories tagged labor-market, newest first.
23 points by andsoitis | 34 comments
An Economist business article arguing that workers displaced by AI lose more than wages; the captured page shows an access-restricted bot block.
558 points by speckx | 495 comments
Mercor research page presenting a Benchmark Map that measures how well existing AI benchmarks cover tasks across American jobs.
29 points by thomas_unise | 31 comments
Blog post from Bold Agent Kit analyzing 14,000 calls to compare AI-handled and human-handled call center performance amid declining call center jobs.
5 points by Wilsoniumite | 0 comments
A website arguing that AI automation may shift income from wages to owners of land and power, tracking economic indicators and publishing a model of the next downturn.
419 points by zdw | 362 comments
Asterisk Magazine essay by Jesse Smith examining the popular advice to pursue trades like electrician work, and the realities behind it.
355 points by jplusequalt | 214 comments
A Becker Friedman Institute working paper by Hurst, Patterson, Richardson, and Wang on sticky wage norms and how unexpected inflation erodes real wages.
425 points by andygcook | 318 comments
Interactive treemap visualizing 342 BLS occupations covering 143M US jobs, colored by outlook, pay, education, or LLM-scored AI exposure.
954 points by enraged_camel | 633 comments
A post on X by economics writer Joseph Politano claiming tech-sector employment is now worse than during the 2008 or 2020 recessions.
429 points by smartbit | 552 comments
BBC News article reporting that the US economy unexpectedly lost 92,000 jobs in February.
580 points by felineflock | 416 comments
Fast Company article arguing that job cuts stem from companies redirecting budgets to AI spending rather than AI directly replacing workers.
414 points by bensouthwood | 411 comments
A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Deena Mousa arguing that AI is not replacing radiologists, with demand for human radiologists at an all-time high.
393 points by pseudolus | 567 comments
CNBC article on a Stanford study finding workers aged 22–25 saw a 13% relative employment decline since 2022 in jobs most exposed to AI.
444 points by ceejayoz | 269 comments
CNBC news article reporting that ADP data showed US private employers shed 33,000 jobs in June 2025, versus expectations of a 100,000 gain.
351 points by pseudolus | 615 comments
New York Times article on white-collar layoffs and whether knowledge work is in decline; the page loaded only a captcha.
529 points by meetpateltech | 214 comments
Anthropic announcement introducing the Anthropic Economic Index, a research effort measuring how AI like Claude is used across economic tasks and occupations.
358 points by belter | 305 comments
Gizmodo news article reporting a study finding that about one in five online job postings are fake or never filled, so-called ghost jobs.
367 points by petethomas | 199 comments
Bloomberg Businessweek article reporting that employment among disabled Americans has risen thanks to remote work, flexible hours, and other pandemic-era accommodations.
343 points by JumpCrisscross | 652 comments
Bloomberg Work Shift article reporting that Americans are less willing than ever to relocate for a new job; the page showed a bot-check captcha.