Data blog

Overall, October job listings appear to mirror the modest increases we witnessed in September. The most striking change can be seen in created job listings which were up 6% in October, after a flat September. Deleted job listings largely held …

U.S. job openings on company websites globally rose 6% in October, continuing the steady recovery in U.S. labor demand that began in May. New Job listings posted to company websites rose 13% while the number of jobs removed from company websites, …

The impact that coronavirus has had on our working lives in the last 8 months has been truly staggering. For a large portion of the workforce, the pandemic has brought about changes that range from a move to remote work …

In recent weeks, the term “K-shaped recovery” has been popping up with increased frequency; used by political figures, economists and media personalities alike. Investopedia, in short, defines a K-shaped recovery as when “different parts of the economy recover at different …

Typically this time of year finds our analysts at LinkUp pouring over our jobs data to get a preview of holiday labor demand. Generally, we’d be looking at when seasonal hiring begins, who is doing the most hiring, and what …

While U.S. job openings on company websites globally rose 2% in September, continuing the steady recovery in U.S. labor demand that began in May, the rate of increase was the slowest in the past 4 months.     The LinkUp 10,000, …

To say that 2020 has been a year like no other would be a staggering understatement. Our health, well being and livelihoods have been stress-tested in ways we couldn’t have imagined just one year ago. In order to make sense …

Back in July, LinkUp wrote an article testing the hypothesis that government stimulus was preventing workers from returning to work. The prevailing narrative was that some workers were receiving more compensation through the CARES Act than they would by returning …

As we mark half a year of grappling with COVID, one industry that has weathered major turmoil is Food Service. Looking at the data to determine the shape of the industry today, we see both positive and negative signs. Noted …

As Labor Day closed the books on what is arguably the strangest summer in modern history, we decided to take a peek in the rearview mirror and recap what happened over the last 90 days (or was it 90 years? …