A 2025 Glassdoor employee-sentiment measure found that workers were less confident about the availability of jobs in October 2025 compared with the prior three months, and Glassdoor reported that users who received a job offer in October 2025 were less likely to decline it than in the previous month.
November 07, 2025
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Glassdoor's site-based sentiment and offer-response metrics are used to gauge worker confidence and perceived leverage in the job market.
A 2025 report from the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that U.S. businesses announced plans to cut 153,074 jobs in October 2025, which the firm described as the worst October for announced cuts in more than two decades.
November 07, 2025
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Challenger, Gray & Christmas tracks announced corporate layoff plans and reports monthly totals of planned job cuts.
ADP reports that it handles payroll for more than 26 million U.S. employees, and a 2025 ADP payroll report indicated that private-sector employers added jobs in October 2025 after two months of decline, though hiring in October 2025 was modest relative to earlier in 2025.
November 07, 2025
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ADP processes payroll for millions of workers and publishes monthly estimates of private-sector employment changes based on payroll data.
Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that announced job cuts surged 175% in October 2025 compared with October 2024.
October 01, 2025
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Year-over-year change in announced job cuts as reported by an outplacement firm.
The hiring rate, defined as the number of people hired in a given month as a percentage of those employed, was 3.2% in August 2025, matching the lowest figure outside the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2013.
August 01, 2025
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Monthly hiring rate as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor; comparison to pre-pandemic historical low.
The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.3% in August 2025.
August 01, 2025
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Official unemployment rate reported for August 2025.