Rogé Karma

You get the Federal Reserve raising interest rates.

All of a sudden, by the end of 2022, every economist on the planet is convinced that there's a looming recession that is coming.

There was that famous Bloomberg model in October of 2022 that said there was a 100% chance of a recession in the next year.

It never happened.

It never came.

So employers, you can imagine, were sitting, waiting, like, okay, we're going to bear down.

We know a recession is coming.

We're not going to hire.

By the time then it became clear a year, year and a half later that a recession wasn't actually coming, then all of a sudden you're in 2024 and there's this election that now has injected a bunch of political uncertainty where you don't know what the agenda of the new administration is going to be.

It could be radically different based on who's elected.

And so you have, okay, we're going another, you know, the big, the big

the overarching view for employers during that period, I heard this phrase over and over again, was survive until 25.

Survive until 25.

We just got to get through the election.

We got to get through this period.

And then we are going to thrive in 2025.

Exactly.

And this is where sort of my piece comes out.

In January 2025,

Everyone is very excited.