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CompTIA Tech Jobs Report (October 2026)
CompTIA's monthly tech jobs report: September 2026 active tech postings above 625,000, rising AI-skill postings and roughly flat tech occupation employment near 7 million.
ReportFreeEmployment Projections and Occupational Outlook Handbook News Release
BLS release presenting 2025–35 U.S. employment projections, including a projected 5.9 million increase in jobs and new AI-exposure categories. Includes occupational and industry outlook data. These are projections under stated assumptions, not observed future outcomes.
ReportFreeJob Ads Show AI Is Outrunning Past Tech Waves. Can Employers Keep Up?
Reports research on the spread of AI mentions in U.S. job postings and compares the pace with earlier technology waves. Discusses how employers may need to change tasks and workflows rather than simply add AI tools to existing routines.
ArticleFreeThe Labor Market Is Tilting Toward Seniority
Indeed Hiring Lab examines experience and seniority requirements in job postings, describing a shift toward roles requiring more experience and differences across industries. Advertised requirements do not measure all hiring decisions or employment outcomes.
ReportFreeEveryone’s panicking about the AI job apocalypse. Here’s the reality
Gartner analysts Brook Selassie and Helen Poitevin argue that current workforce data supports an uneven transition rather than imminent mass unemployment. They discuss adoption constraints, early-career risks, role redesign and reskilling, while acknowledging uncertainty about future employment.
ArticleFreeHow employment is changing at Anthropic
Anthropic analyzes internal employment, hiring, AI-use, output and survey data alongside employee interviews. Reports changing junior technical hiring and productivity patterns as agent use expands, with human attention becoming a bottleneck; this employer case study is not representative of the whole labor market.
ReportFreeCode Is a Commodity Now
Essay (October 15, 2026) on falling demand for frontend and junior developer roles, citing Djinni job-board data and Indeed Hiring Lab software-posting figures.
ArticleFreeSeasonal Hiring Is Off to a Fast Start
Indeed Hiring Lab analysis (October 15, 2026) of early seasonal job postings in the US.
ReportFreeUnemployment rate for people with a disability rose to 8.3 percent in 2025
Reports that the unemployment rate for people with disabilities in the U.S. rose to 8.3 percent in 2025, highlighting a growing disparity compared to the stable unemployment rate for those without disabilities.
DataFreeTech Pros Uneasy About Current State of Labor Market
CIO Dive article reporting on Dice survey findings that show growing unease among technology professionals about hiring conditions and job security.
ArticleFreeThe 26 Most Important Facts About AI and the Economy
Derek Thompson's charts-based roundup of the state of AI and the economy in 2026.
ArticleFreeTrapped Workers: A Network Analysis of Worker Mobility in the AI Economy
Bipartisan Policy Center issue brief using network analysis to examine which job moves actually change a worker's options in the AI economy, and where workers have limited paths to better roles.
ReportFree'Masculine energy' is costing companies billions
Article by Laetitia Vitaud in Fast Company examining the push for more "masculine energy" in corporate culture, drawing on Women in the Workplace report data, 2025 labor market statistics, and the team-supporting work that goes unrewarded. Published October 7, 2026.
ArticleFreeMore than half of U.S. workers say job insecurity causing stress
Press release from the American Psychological Association summarizing its 2025 Work in America survey, conducted by The Harris Poll. Fifty-four percent of U.S. workers said job insecurity significantly affected their stress levels, and 39% said they worried about losing their jobs within 12 months due to government policy changes. Includes survey findings and steps for employers.
ArticleFreeTop 5 Market Signals from Q3 2026 — TechServe Alliance
Quarterly roundup from TechServe Alliance, the IT and engineering staffing trade association, on the five labor-market signals from Q3 2026 that matter most for tech hiring and staffing.
ReportFreeWhy Are the Unemployed So Unhappy? Evidence from Panel Data
Peer-reviewed study using German panel data on life satisfaction. It finds unemployment lowers wellbeing far beyond the effect of the lost income itself — work also provides social relationships, identity and self-esteem. Published in Economica, 1998.
Research PaperFreeAI Benefits at Work Unevenly Distributed
Gallup report from the American Job Quality Study finding that while a majority of AI-using employees report working faster and more creatively, these benefits are concentrated among workers who already hold higher-quality jobs, such as college graduates, managers, and higher earners.
ReportFreeICIMS Insights: Workers Are Teaching Themselves AI Skills Faster Than Employers Train Them
ICIMS Insights September 2026 Workforce Report, drawing on data from more than 3.1 million users and 691 million candidate profiles, finding job openings outpacing hires for a third straight month and a widening gap between employer-desired AI skills and how job seekers are acquiring them.
ReportFreeMore U.S. Workers Fear Losing Their Jobs to Technology
Gallup poll finding that 27% of U.S. workers, a new high, worry technology could make their jobs obsolete, up from 13% in 2017. Concern has risen sharply among college graduates since 2021 and is now the top job-security worry among workers under 45.
ReportFreeStack Overflow Developer Survey 2026
Sixteenth annual Stack Overflow survey of more than 30,000 developers and technologists across 169 countries, covering AI usage, job satisfaction, employment arrangements, and technology trends. Reports that 33% of respondents are not happy at work and that freelance/self-employed status rose from 3.9% to 10.5% year over year.
ReportFreeWork in America 2026: Workers Weather Stress, Uncertainty, and AI with Psychological Capital
Highlights from the American Psychological Association's 2026 Work in America survey (The Harris Poll, May 21–June 1, 2026, 2,000+ U.S. workers). 37% of workers say their work environment harms their mental health, up from 32% the year before, and 48% feel tense or stressed during the workday. The report compares workers by psychological capital: hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism.
ReportFreeBlack Unemployment Rises Sharply to 7% as Economists Point to Trump Policies
TheGrio reports on Black unemployment rising sharply to 7 percent, with economists pointing to federal policy changes. Described from the headline — the page would not let our reader in.
ArticleFreeMy Assessment of AI's Impact on the US Economy and Labor Market
Labor economist Gad Levanon argues on his Labor Matters newsletter (Oct 1, 2026) that most of the public debate underestimates how much AI has already changed the US economy and labor market. He estimates underlying GDP growth at about 3 percent, driven largely by AI-related business investment, and says his reading of the evidence is not definitive proof.
ArticleFreeAmerica's Workplace AI Temp Check (Resume Now)
Resume Now's survey report on how U.S. workers say AI is changing their jobs, workloads and job security. The site blocked automated reading, so this description comes from the page title.
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