Dare Obasanjo on Nostr: Outside the pandemic, U.S. information-sector employment is now at its lowest level ...
Outside the pandemic, U.S. information-sector employment is now at its lowest level in more than a decade.
BLS data shows 2.739M jobs in September, down ~12% from the 2022 peak. The entire post-pandemic hiring boom has now been erased.
I expected AI to cause Big Tech to shrink but not all tech. 😞
The raw data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics can be found below.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/USINFO 
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