{"id":46367,"date":"2025-07-07T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46367\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:13:08","slug":"job-numbers-show-employers-and-workers-are-waiting-for-clearer-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46367\/","title":{"rendered":"Job numbers show employers and workers are \u2018waiting for clearer signals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-to-speech__button__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hrdive.com\/static\/images\/audio_icon.svg?482016190122\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Listen to the article<br \/>\n        1 min<\/p>\n<p>            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrdive.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both employers and employees are \u201cwaiting for clearer signals\u201d before making moves, the most recent job numbers indicate, according to Ger\u202fDoyle, regional president, North America at ManpowerGroup.<\/p>\n<p>Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 147,000 last month, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.1 percent, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures<\/a> released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While the federal government continued to shed jobs, both healthcare and state government added jobs, BLS said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a freeze, but a temporary chill,\u201d Doyle said. \u201cEmployees are staying put, employers are holding steady, and everyone is waiting for clearer signals. This is collective caution, not crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Project management roles are increasing and jobs mentioning AI skills are holding strong, Doyle said \u2014 \u201csigns that strategic priorities are shifting, not stalling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to the article 1 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-46367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114812840201761271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46367","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=46367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}