Neil Freiman

The year may be 2026, but at least on social media, it's 2016.

You've probably seen this on your own feeds or participated it in yourself.

A viral trend has users posting pictures and memories from 10 years ago when Hamilton was huge, Beyonce released Lemonade, and everyone was doing the mannequin challenge.

Apparently people are nostalgic for the summer of Pokemon Go.

Toby, what were you doing in 2016?

They're gearing up for something.

Yeah, the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos next week.

And Indeed will be there giving business leaders the inside scoop on all things hiring.

We'll be there too.

Those insights come together in reports from Indeed's hiring lab, like the newly released 2026 Jobs and Hiring Trends Report, which offers a forward-looking view of the U.S.

labor market, what's shifting, what's stabilizing, and what business leaders need to prepare for in the year ahead.

One thing that every single big bank is trying to do is just pay people less or pay fewer people, and they are making inroads there.

The biggest U.S.

banks, those six that you mentioned, they've cut their combined headcount by the most in almost a decade in 2026.

They have about...

1.1 million combined employees at the end of December, which is down more than 10,000 from a year earlier.

Now it's at the lowest level since 2021.

Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf, one of the things he loves to do in these earnings calls and goes up and says, here's how many fewer employees we have.

And he's actually been very successful in that regard.

Wells Fargo has 2%.