Studies

11/03/2026

AI layoffs leave long-lasting scar on workers, Goldman warns

You've sent out dozens of applications since the summer. A few recruiters replied, fewer called back, and the roles you used to see every week seem to have quietly dried up. The news cycle keeps warning that AI is about to wipe out millions of ...

11/03/2026

6 min

Faking skills at work: 1 in 3 workers admit it, survey finds

Addison Group's 2026 Skill Security Report puts a number on a hiring-process vulnerability that many talent acquisition leaders have suspected but rarely quantified: 36% of working and job-seeking Americans , approximately 64 million people, say ...

10/06/2026

5 min

Return to office costs workers $6,700 a year, analysis finds

A Resume.io analysis of 1,000 full-time US employees puts the annual cost of in-office work, branded the RTO tax, at approximately $6,736 per worker , equivalent to 9.3% of a typical salary . For HR directors finalizing 2027 headcount budgets, ...

09/16/2026

6 min

026 Oxfam ranking: US states with the strongest worker rights

Step across a state line and your hourly pay floor can jump by more than $11. That gap separates Washington DC's $18.40 minimum wage from the federal $7.25 floor set by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a floor that has not moved since July ...

08/25/2026

6 min

A LinkedIn study published this week puts two numbers side, United States reward angle

A LinkedIn study published this week puts two numbers side by side that are hard to ignore: the median salary for a typical AI role in the United States sits at $177,000, while the median for non-AI roles is $80,000. That is more than double ...

08/24/2026

6 min

University of Pittsburgh research: AI layoffs are not delivering for U.S. workers

Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. If you are job-hunting right now , or weighing an offer from a company that just made an AI-driven restructuring announcement, that ...

08/03/2026

7 min

US managers use AI to pick who gets laid off, survey finds

If your employer is running a headcount review right now, there is a real chance an AI tool is helping shape the outcome, and you probably have no idea it is happening. A ResumeTemplates.com survey of 1,000 US managers who use AI at work found ...

07/03/2026

5 min

More than 90% of organizations have deployed AI in talent acquisition (United States)

More than 90% of organizations have deployed AI in talent acquisition, yet fewer than 5% report transformational outcomes. That is the headline finding of a study titled "The New Talent Equation: Building Better Talent Decisions," commissioned by ...

07/01/2026

5 min

BLS JOLTS report: openings hold at 7.6 million as layoffs climb

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its May Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report showing two data points that pull in opposite directions. Job openings held at 7.6 million, beating analyst estimates and signaling ...

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