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2026-08-03

Data-Driven Insights: Job Hiring Trends and Predictions for 2026

A new AI Labor Market Tracker that launched earlier this week from workforce research company Revelio Labs suggests the answer is yes, at least among the companies embracing AI adoption. The tracker includes data related to labor demand, labor supply, headcount, wages, recruitment trends, and how job responsibilities are shifting, with monthly updates based on the latest Revelio data. Advertisement “It shows that [AI] adoption and growth and employment can coexist, which does away with these doomsday scenarios” about AI wiping out jobs, argues Lisa Simon, chief economist at Revelio Labs. We reached out to Simon to learn more about the new tracker’s first release, what it says about the current state of the job market, and what it reveals about AI adoption and headcount. [...] How should employers be responding to the data? AI-adopting companies are growing faster. They were also growing faster pre-adoption, but the most innovative companies in our day and age are still relying on people and are spending a lot on their human capital. That might not have to be true for all companies, but it shows that adoption and growth and employment can coexist. [...] Were there any results that surprised you? We track how work is changing at the activity level, based on how employees write about their own jobs or employers write job descriptions. We've seen the rate of churn in work activities double over the past three to six months. Usually we have a four percentage point churn of activities, meaning that when you look at all the activities done in the economy today, and you compare them to this time last year, you'd have to reshuffle 4% of activities to get back to last year's distribution. That number has ticked up to 8%.

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2026-06-05

The State of Hiring: 5% Increase in New Job Postings

ManpowerGroup data showed a 5% increase in new postings in January, which Doyle called “a small but meaningful indication that organizations are beginning the year with clearer hiring plans.” Doyle noted that employers are being deliberate with the jobs they add, focusing on work tied to execution, service delivery and long-term capability. Read more | Paying to get hired: What the reverse recruiting trend tells HR ## Where the pressure points are building Beneath the headline numbers, several indicators shed light on workforce reality. ### Healthcare job growth [...] ### Skills mismatch leading to long-term unemployment Long-term unemployment is another signal worth tracking. The number of people jobless for 27 weeks or more changed little in January at 1.8 million, according to BLS data, but is up by 386,000 from a year earlier. The long-term unemployed now account for 25% of all unemployed people. That trend points to a skills mismatch problem more than a demand problem and suggests an opening for organizations willing to invest in skills-based hiring and return-to-work initiatives. ### Part-time workers [...] Planet Group findings back that up. Contract job demand in January paced just under January 2025 levels but was the strongest the firm has seen since October, according to Belmonte. Permanent hiring was down year over year in 2025, but January permanent job orders were the highest since October as well, suggesting what she called early signs of “selective confidence” returning for critical full-time roles. Ger Doyle, regional president of North America at staffing firm ManpowerGroup, pointed to similar patterns. “The latest numbers point to a labor market that continues to show more underlying strength than many anticipated,” Doyle said in an email.

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