If the economic theme of 2025 was uncertainty, the theme for 2026 is shaping up to be stagnation.<\/p>\n
According to the new Indeed 2026 Jobs & Hiring Trends Report<\/a>, the US labor market<\/a> has settled into a deep freeze. We’re currently living in a “low-hire, low-fire” <\/a>environment: Many employers are too nervous to expand their headcounts, yet not distressed enough to initiate mass layoffs.<\/p>\n A comparison of the latest job posting data from October 2025 with that from a year earlier indicates the cooling effect<\/a> is not limited to a specific field \u2014 it\u2019s virtually everywhere. From childcare job postings, down 13.8%, to IT Infrastructure, down 13%, the vast majority of industries have fewer job offerings now than they did a year ago. <\/p>\n Sectors that were previously resilient, like retail and hospitality, are showing signs of fatigue, Indeed found. The Trump Administration’s cuts contributed to a massive 22.2% decline in postings for scientific research and development. And the AI boom is ostensibly<\/a> playing a role in the 3.5% decrease in software development postings. Even nursing is down 6%.<\/p>\n Amidst this sea of decline, a few surprising outliers have bucked the trend. Here are the four sectors that actually saw gains on Indeed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the economic theme of 2025 was uncertainty, the theme for 2026 is shaping up to be stagnation.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-413257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115634114721648495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}