Information Sector Employment Has Fallen 342,000 Since 2022
Tech, telecom, and media employment is down 11.0% from its peak — and it kept dropping in April. The talent pool you're hiring from is bigger than your salary bands assume.
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The Skip-Level Blind Spot
The information your managers filter out before it ever reaches you.
How do I get my team to disagree with me?
Half your team thinks you're wrong about something right now. They're just not telling you.
Labor's Share of Output Hit a Record-Low 54.1%
Labor's share of nonfarm output fell to a record-low 54.1% as AI-driven productivity gains flowed to capital. What it signals for hiring, retention, and comp budgets.
How do I manage someone who's quietly using AI to do their job badly?
The tool isn't the problem. You're accepting work below your standard, and you never made the standard explicit because you never had to before.
The Employment Trends Index Rose on Seven of Eight Components
The headline says the labor market is stabilizing. The one hard employer signal inside the index says the opposite.
The Tenure Mix
The team that looks the most stable on paper is usually the one quietly losing the most output.
How long should it take a new hire to actually be productive?
Most 30/60/90 plans are activity lists. That's onboarding theater.
New Entrants Drove 85% of the Unemployment Rise
The headline unemployment rate barely moved. Almost all the damage was absorbed by workers trying to enter the labor force for the first time.
How do I keep a top performer engaged when there's no promotion available?
Top performers don't quit over titles. They quit because their Tuesday looks the same as it did 18 months ago.
Employment Outside Healthcare Fell by 367,000
Healthcare added 618,000 jobs over the past 12 months. Every other sector combined lost ground.
The Hiring Manager Variance Problem
Why the same candidate would get hired by some of your managers and rejected by others... and what that costs you