Rachel Louise Ensign
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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It's like Ryanair, you know, in Europe.
It really seems like this is an age of anxiety for the white-collar workers, and it's showing up a bit in the jobs report, but where it's really showing up is on surveys, and it's pretty clear that office workers are really nervous about losing their jobs right now.
So there's data from the New York Fed.
They poll Americans of different levels of education.
And what they found is that Americans with bachelor's degrees or higher, they put the average probability of losing their jobs in the next year at 15%.
And that's up from 11% three years ago.
And what's really interesting is that these more educated workers now think that losing a job is more likely than people with less education do.
which is a complete reversal from a few years ago right when the pandemic was ending and places couldn't hire enough white-collar workers.
And these workers were getting recruited.
They were getting huge raises.
They were getting big promotions.
And now they know that a lot of their companies are doing layoffs.
They know that if they get laid off, it's probably going to be pretty tough for them to find something new quickly.
In the jobs report, you can see that there are some sectors like information and financial activities, which did shed jobs in October and November.
So
If you're employed in one of those sectors, there's a good chance that you look around and you see that your company isn't only not expanding, they're downsizing.
And they are also worried about AI.
There have been a lot of CEOs out there who are saying AI will replace workers.
The CEO of Ford said AI is going to replace half of all white-collar workers in the country.
So all of those things taken together have made it a pretty spooky time to be a white collar worker.
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