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Does it still pay to switch jobs?
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (796+ words) Author: Nela Richardson, Ph.D. In July, pay growth for job-changers accelerated to its fastest pace since August 2025. Median year-over-year pay growth for these workers rose to 7.0 percent, while pay growth for workers who stayed put held steady at 4.4 percent. That…...
The Moving Van Myth
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (68+ words) Workers who packed up to relocate during the pandemic drove the rise of long-distance work, right? Well, no. Changing jobs while staying put In the summer of 2009, my family packed up a truck and moved from Washington, D.C., to Boston, Massachusetts....
Moving vans didn’t remap U.S. employment. The org chart did.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (896+ words) When remote and long-distance work began to spread during the Covid-19 pandemic, it was easy to assume that the geography of employment was changing because people were moving. Migration certainly surged, and some U.S. metro areas saw unusually large numbers of…...
Leisure, hospitality, and the rewards of loyalty
3+ week, 5+ day ago (514+ words) Author: Nela Richardson, Ph.D. As an industry, leisure and hospitality runs on loyalty. This is especially true in summer, when travelers crowd airlines, restaurants, and hotels. All of these sectors make extensive use of brand loyalty points to lure and…...
How engaged is the global workforce?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (626+ words) Worker engagement has been improving since the coronavirus pandemic, but fewer than 1 in 5 people worldwide were fully engaged on the job in 2025. That means the vast majority of people – 4 in 5 – aren’t giving it their all at work. Each year, our…...
AI powers into the workplace
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (678+ words) Generative artificial intelligence burst onto the scene in 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT and other user-friendly tools. Less than four years later, adoption is widespread. Half of workers we surveyed globally said they use AI at least multiple times a…...
The pay gap is (still) getting bigger
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (676+ words) Author: Nela Richardson, Ph.D., Liv Wang Last fall, we told you about the record pay gap that separates the top and bottom earners. In 2025, we found that the gap had grown to 530 percent. That meant that, on an annualized basis,…...
Pay trends to watch in 2026
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (145+ words) Author: Nela Richardson, Ph.D., Liv Wang Here are the trends to watch for 2026, in five easy charts. In the service sector, financial services delivered the biggest return from job-switching. At the other end of the spectrum was leisure and hospitality,…...
The power of mom-and-pops
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (197+ words) by Nela Richardson, Ph.D. This year in particular, we have some great reasons to celebrate National Small Business Week next month. Without these unsung heroes of the U.S. economy, the labor market would look a lot different than it does. You…...
The rise – and rise – of knowledge work
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (197+ words) by Nela Richardson, Ph.D. • Tim Decker For more than a decade, ADP Research has been studying knowledge worker sentiment, a project led by Dr. Mary Hayes and Jared Northrop. For the four weeks ending April 4, 2026, U.S. private employers added an…...