Jobs market challenges: What employers want, what economy needs

Jobs market challenges: What employers want, what economy needs

workers safety helmet jobs onstruction Editor’s note: Paige Ouimet is Director of Research, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise & Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

CHAPEL HILL – As the workplace continues to rebuild itself in a post-COVID world, a major set of outstanding questions concerns the type of jobs that will be in demand, as well as the forms of work most beneficial to the broader economy. The most recent employment report showed 517,000 jobs added in January, a number far beyond the 190,000 that had been projected. In addition, the length of the average workweek […]

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