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October 7, 2024
Hiring in an age of uncertainty
There were a few data signals going into Friday’s blockbuster jobs report that many market watchers and economists missed.
Layoffs, as measured by a rolling four-week average of initial jobless claims, hit their lowest level in more than a year and a half. August showed an uptick in job openings, a hint that companies were about to ramp up hiring. And September’s ADP National Employment Report suggested that a rebound in private-sector hiring was under way.
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June 24, 2024
You’ve graduated. Now what?
by Sam Adieze • Ben Hanowell
When it comes to the combination of recent graduate wages, hiring, and affordability, we found big differences between metro areas. The highest-ranking metros might surprise you.
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June 17, 2024
The rise—and fall—of the software developer
by Jeff Nezaj
Since the rise of the internet, software developers have commanded big salaries and valuable perks. But something has shifted since the pandemic.
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May 22, 2024
Long-distance work and compensation
Long-distance work didn’t begin with the coronavirus lockdown; people were collaborating between offices well before then.
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March 12, 2024
It’s not the size of your paycheck. It’s how you feel about it.
by Mary Hayes, Ph.D. • Jared Northup
The ADP Research Institute’s annual Global Workplace Study looks at data from 28,000 workers in 28 countries who responded to the following statement: “My pay is fair for the work I do.”
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March 7, 2024
Long-distance work and domestic offshoring
ADP data shows how long-distance working relationships are concentrating leadership in metro areas with expensive housing.
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November 8, 2023
The growing prevalence of cross-metropolitan work
Collaborating on work from different places is nothing new, but the normalization of remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic has helped take the phenomenon to a whole new level, a shift that ADP data is uniquely well positioned to study.
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May 23, 2023
Domestic offshoring: How housing costs are sorting work across U.S. cities
Economic and political power has historically been concentrated in a small number of command-and-control cities, which serve as nerve centers for business, ideas, and influence.
In recent decades, a growing regional divide between costly and affordable U.S. cities has been joined by technological innovations that make it easier for people in different places to collaborate.
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