{"id":496078,"date":"2026-06-26T05:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/496078\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:46:39","slug":"employment-confidence-hits-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/496078\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment confidence hits record low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bleak attitude towards the employment market could be creeping close to the new normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Westpac-McDermott Miller survey for the June quarter shows confidence fell to an all-time low across both public and private sector employees. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A net 60% of respondents believe it&#8217;s hard to find a job \u2013 up from 46% last quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Employers and Manufacturers Association&#8217;s Alan McDonald told Mike Hosking the Iran war&#8217;s hit people hard, but businesses are having to get on with things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says if a peace deal doesn&#8217;t stick, there are concerns for the next couple of quarters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bleak attitude towards the employment market could be creeping close to the new normal.\u00a0 A Westpac-McDermott Miller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[34694,138,219,48424,248244,1122,248243,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-496078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alanmcdonald","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ema","tag-employersandmanufacturersassociation","tag-employment","tag-employmentconfidence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}