How secure are American jobs? Conventional wisdom holds that Americans are more likely to be laid off today than they were a generation ago and that globalization and corporate greed are putting an increasing number of jobs at risk. Good jobs are being ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If you’re like most people, you place a high value on job security, but with news of layoffs, economic pressure and ...

Job seekers in the U.S. are prioritizing pay, job security and engagement as they face longer job hunts, according to a June 18 report from Aerotek. In a spring 2024 survey of more than 1,400 job seekers, pay topped a list of eight motivators in the job ...

How secure are American jobs? Conventional wisdom holds that Americans are more likely to be laid off today than they were a generation ago and that globalization and corporate greed are putting more and more jobs at risk. Good jobs are being outsourced to ...

Do public employees have greater job security? And if so, how much is it worth? As part of my broader work on public sector pay, I’ve looked at whether public employees have greater job security than private sector workers and how this job security ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As recession fears intensify, U.S. job seekers are confronting a stark reality: job security may no longer be guaranteed, even for top performers. Recession Fears are Reshaping the Job Hunt According to a new ...

Feeling overwhelmed about how to upskill in AI? Worried AI is going to take your job and leave your carefully honed skills redundant? While a lot of the discourse up until this point has centred

Perhaps the starkest difference between occupations with high job security and those with relatively low job security is the education level typically required for the position. The increasingly competitive U.S. job market has put a premium on highly ...

Technology offers a wide variety of technical and business-related career options for almost anyone interested in the industry. Job security in this field is a subject often discussed by statistical professionals, scholars and around the water cooler at work.

It’s been coined the “Great Apprehension”—the concept that a majority of U.S. workers are terrified of losing their jobs. Not surprisingly, with inflation, recession fears and mass layoffs, job security is on everyone’s minds these days.

American workers who have more flexibility and security in their jobs also have better mental health, according to a study of 2021 survey data from over 18,000 nationally representative working Americans. The study, published Monday in JAMA Network Open ...