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Bosses say workers need to be back in the office after Labor Day. This is not a drill!!!* *they haven't really figured out what they'll do if people don't comply so things should get pretty interesting in the coming months My latest w/ Chip Cutter wsj.com/articles/back-…

Airbnb: here’s $375 in cleaning fees Now do the dishes. Load the laundry. Vacuum the floor. And mow the lawn. My latest ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ A-hed about a stressful summer of rental chores 😅🧽🧤 wsj.com/articles/airbn…

Stunning details in this @cammcwhirter piece on New Orleans which has a homicide rate of 41 per 100k residents (compared to 11.5 in Chicago and 2.4 in NYC) and an average 911 response time of 2.5 hours. wsj.com/articles/new-o… via The Wall Street Journal

GDP is shrinking so why are companies still hiring? They cut too many jobs in 2020, and still have too few people to meet even a softening sales level, Sarah Chaney Cambon reports. “You can’t lay off what you didn’t hire." With terrific graphics by Aziz Sunderji wsj.com/articles/labor…

On the same day, three New Yorkers—a trader, a lawyer and a social worker—ordered cocaine from a delivery service. Within hours, all three were dead from fentanyl. wsj.com/articles/fenta… via The Wall Street Journal

What corporate layoffs? Job openings at companies with at least 5,000 employees hit a record high in September. h/t Julia Pollak

The 3 takeaways from Powell's press conference: 1) The Fed could step down to a slower pace in Dec even if inflation data don't improve much 2) If there had been new estimates of the terminal funds rate released today, they would have moved up 3) Not ready to talk about a pause

Layoffs hit white-collar workers, scrambling how slowdowns usually hit the job market: a ‘Patagonia vest recession’. My latest piece in the WSJ: wsj.com/articles/layof…

A tight labor market is spurring some companies to omit one of the steps once deemed crucial to hiring: the job interview. wsj.com/articles/youre… via The Wall Street Journal

New from me/Ray A. Smith: Workers say their career ambitions have dropped. They're saying no to unpaid overtime, not seeing a link between that effort and getting rewarded. Now, companies are changing how they operate in response. wsj.com/articles/your-… via The Wall Street Journal

One more sign the job market is cooling: It is getting a lot harder to find a remote job. Many prospective workers who were determined to get a remote job just a few months ago are hitting a wall as remote listings rapidly dwindle. wsj.com/articles/the-j… via The Wall Street Journal

The Housing Market Has Started To Recover: The housing market has begun to recover after hitting a low point in the second week of November. We’re not out of the woods yet, but homebuyers are coming off the sidelines. redfin.com/news/the-housi…

New from me and Kailyn Rhone: Need a tech job? There are more open positions in software engineering in Washington, D.C. now than in SF and Silicon Valley. wsj.com/articles/washi… via The Wall Street Journal

How can it be that the U.S. job market is still so strong yet so many big companies are announcing mass layoffs? Sarah Chaney Cambon and I tackle this puzzle. wsj.com/articles/jobs-… via The Wall Street Journal

The next economic downturn has become the most anticipated recession in recent U.S. history. It also keeps getting postponed Goldman economists say higher-than-anticipated consumer spending this year could support a terminal Fed rate of 5.75%-6% wsj.com/articles/godot…

Women have gained more jobs than men for the last few months as services sectors go on a hiring spree and pandemic disruptions subside (however, childcare remains a huge pain point). Here's my story with Sarah Chaney Cambon wsj.com/articles/women… via The Wall Street Journal

"He really felt a duty to cover Russia." Our episode on Evan Gershkovich from college-soccer penalty-scoring star to WSJ Moscow correspondent to his detention in Russia. With drew hinshaw Joe Parkinson #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan wsj.com/podcasts/the-j…

Child-care prices are rising at nearly twice the overall inflation rate, putting a squeeze on budgets for parents of young children. Great story by Christian Robles wsj.com/economy/child-…

The construction industry faces a major labor shortage as President Biden's infrastructure law is creating countless new jobs. My story w/ ⁦Sarah Chaney Cambon⁩ on how the administration is looking to women to help fill the gap and the challenges ahead: wsj.com/us-news/help-w…