The confidence of the American worker has reached a decrease in the record, which is worse than it was during the darkest days of the epidemic
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American employees are not satisfied with the future. In fact, their optimism is at a point less than it was during the peak of the epidemic.
The American worker’s confidence for the month of February this year has reached the lowest record in +24 Search from LinkedIn. This is worse than the feeling of workers in April 2020, and a sharp decrease from 9 points of confidence levels in January.
The perpetrator of all anxiety is the market for slow function, the new destructive economic policies, and concerns about how artificial intelligence affects human professionals, according to the report. “This indicates that the workers feel that they do not have the ability to already change their financial position. When you feel that you do not have strength, your confidence in your stability, says Drew Maksil, a professional expert in LinkedIn. luck.
While job seekers were controlled by the labor market only a few years ago, who have made great wages by switching roles, this opportunity for workers stops. The number of applicants for each open job has jumped 70 % since 2022, while employment slowed 3.4 % from February 2024 to February 2025. McCaskill also notes that the flow of federal workers who shoot new roles may also be a source of pressure because “no one knows if the private section will be able to reconcile all these functions.”
“It is basically the employer’s market at the present time,” he says.
It is not surprising, then, to cause money the most anxiety of workers. Employees’ confidence in their ability to improve their financial position has decreased over the next six months to +15, below April 2020 +16, and a low standard degree of this scale in particular.
Although the current recruitment environment is definitely a challenge for job seekers, McCaskill says it put pressure on employment managers and human resources leaders. On the one hand, this group is likely to have the choice of candidates when it comes to filling a role. But this “steeped and compressed” regiment is taking more applications and struggles to meet the supreme demands of presidents who believe they should rent the best. This leads to some inevitable broken links in the job employment chain.
He says, “The recruits are now immersed,” he says. “People looking for jobs do not get responses.”
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