In a large resume-correspondence field experiment covering more than 40,000 applications, female applicants for administrative jobs ages 29–31 received callbacks on 14.41% of applications, compared with 10.30% for otherwise comparable appli
BLS annual-average data for 2025 show that more than four in ten unemployed workers ages 55–64 had been unemployed for 15 weeks or longer.
The share of U.S. workers who were independent contractors on their sole or main job rose from 6.9% in May 2017 to 7.4% in July 2023.
When large numbers of Americans began working from home in spring 2020, U.S. residential electricity use rose about 10%, according to an analysis of nationwide monthly utility data. In Texas, hourly smart-meter data showed home electricity
Among long-tenured workers displaced during 2023–2025 who were reemployed full time by January 2026, 49.6% were earning less per week than they had earned on the job they lost. BLS defines long-tenured displaced workers here as people who h
In January 2024, the median tenure of U.S. wage-and-salary workers ages 55–64 with their current employer was 9.6 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In July 2023, 11.5% of workers age 55 and older were independent contractors on their sole or main job, compared with 6.9% of workers ages 25 to 54.
Global Workplace Analytics estimates that an employer saves about $11,000 per year for every employee who works remotely half of the time, through lower real-estate and facilities costs, higher productivity, and reduced turnover and absente
In the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of long-tenured workers displaced during 2023–2025, 47.7% reported that their job ended because a position or shift was abolished. That was a larger share than plant or company closings or moves and
BLS employee-tenure data for January 2024 show that more than one-quarter of wage-and-salary workers ages 55–64 had 20 years or more of tenure with their current employer.
