{"id":242672,"date":"2025-11-04T04:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242672\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T04:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:50:08","slug":"layoffs-surge-the-low-hire-low-fire-era-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242672\/","title":{"rendered":"Layoffs Surge! The &#8216;Low Hire, Low Fire&#8217; Era Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/layoff31762199636.jpg\" align=\"absmiddle\" alt=\"Layoffs Surge! The 'Low Hire, Low Fire' Era Is Over\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The brief period of stability in the U.S. job market;\u00a0marked by low hiring but also low layoffs;\u00a0appears to be ending.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Bloomberg report, a growing number of major companies have begun cutting jobs again, raising concerns among economists that the employment landscape is shifting toward a sharper slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>Big names across industries are announcing significant layoffs: Starbucks is trimming about 900 jobs, Paramount around 1,000, Target roughly 1,800, and Amazon a staggering 14,000.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these cuts are attributed to corporate restructuring, efficiency drives, and the growing integration of artificial intelligence, which is automating parts of operations once handled by humans.<\/p>\n<p>An outplacement firm cited by Bloomberg reported nearly 950,000 layoffs through September, already surpassing every full non-pandemic year since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The data suggests that what was once a \u201cno-hire, no-fire\u201d equilibrium may be giving way to a new phase of corporate belt-tightening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not just in a low-hire, low-fire environment anymore,\u201d one economist said. \u201cWe\u2019re firing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While employers had previously held onto workers amid uncertainty about finding replacements later, that caution seems to be fading as businesses adjust to slower growth and rising operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>The trend could signal deeper trouble for job seekers heading into 2026\u00a0and a warning sign for the broader economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The brief period of stability in the U.S. job market;\u00a0marked by low hiring but also low layoffs;\u00a0appears to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,6282,11460,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-242672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-job-market","11":"tag-layoffs","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}